HIRED OR FIRED OUR READER `APPRENTICE' EXPERTS TELL US WHO WILL BE...(LIFE-MONEY)

Byline: TRACY ORMSBEE EXECUTIVE FEATURES EDITOR

The interview is almost over.

Nervous? Maybe during the first week, or the third but 13 weeks later, we and the contestants of NBC's ``The Apprentice'' have grown used to the challenging job assignments, the hard questions from Donald Trump, even the firings.

Still, only two of the original 16 candidates remain after last Thursday's cliffhanger: Kwame, a Harvard Business School graduate who dumped his job on Wall Street as an investment manager for Goldman Sachs to be on the show, and Bill, founder of cigarsaroundtheworld.com, who also left it all behind for The Donald.

Not who you expected? Did you think it would be Amy and Nick, the beautiful power couple that formed an alliance of sorts? Or did you predict Omarosa, with her I'm-looking-out-for-me attitude, would have made it further?

Donald Trump will tell one of the final two the good news …