ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head></head><body> <!--- TC Header --> <table border=1 bordercolor=#0098ff width="706px" cellpadding=0 > <tr style="background-color:#0098ff;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;color:white"> <td colspan="2" style="font-weight:bold"><font face="Verdana">Top-Consultant.com's &nbsp; Management Consultants' Weekly Newsletter&nbsp;</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bordercolor="#FFFFFF" style="font-family:verdana;font-size:10pt;" width="455px"> <div id="pane1" style="width:455px;padding:5px;border-right:solid 1px #0098ff"> <!--- date --> <div id="date1" style="font-size:8pt;color:#000080;font-weight:bold;padding:5px"> Thursday, 2nd October 2008 </div> <!--- advert1 --> <div id="advert1" style="background-color:#b7dbff;padding:5px;margin-top:5px"> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://www.top-consultant.com/UK/career/appointmentstwo.asp?ID=31945">Programme Advisory Opportunities</a></div> <div><br><b>Ernst & Young</b> s Programme Advisory Services practice is a market leader in the provision of capital programme assessment, improvement and monitoring. We are seeking individuals with consulting, significant programme and business improvement experience within large recognised businesses.<br><br></div> <div><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.top-consultant.com/UK/career/appointmentstwo.asp?ID=31945">Click here to find out more ...</a></div> </div> <!--- main news --> <div style="color:#000080;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:10px">Business & Consultancy News</div> <div style="font-weight:bold"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=5097">Accenture posts higher Q4 results, sees record bookings</a></div> <div>Accenture has reported a rise in quarterly profit and forecasts further growth in the year ahead on firm demand for its global consulting and outsourcing services.</div> <div style="font-size:8pt"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=5097" >Full article>>></a></div> <div style="color:#000080;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px">Forthcoming events</div> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://events.top-consultant.com/UK/careerconference.aspx?ID=343">The Consultancy Careers Fair</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Barbican Centre, London<br>Thursday 9th October 2008 (evening)<br>Friday 10th October 2008 (daytime)</div> <div style="font-style:italic"></div> <br /> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://events.top-consultant.com/UK/careerconference.aspx?ID=384">Working with Procurement Departments</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">How to ensure your consulting proposal doesn't fall foul of the procurement process<br> <i>London (Mayfair) - Thursday 16th October 2008</i></div> <div style="font-style:italic"></div> <br /> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://events.top-consultant.com/UK/careerconference.aspx?ID=387">Presentation Skills  Beginner & Advanced workshops</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">One day courses on Friday 24th October 2008 (Beginner) and Friday 21st November 2008 (Advanced) - London (Mayfair)</div> <div style="font-style:italic"></div> <br /> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://events.top-consultant.com/UK/careerconference.aspx?ID=383">IBM - SAP Careers event</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Attend our next assesment day </div> <div style="font-style:italic"></div> <br /> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://events.top-consultant.com/UK/careerconference.aspx?ID=368">The Art of Selling Consulting Services</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Our most popular seminar ever!<br> <i>London (Westminster) - Friday 7th November 2008</i> </div> <div style="font-style:italic"></div> <br /> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://events.top-consultant.com/UK/careerconference.aspx?ID=299">Senior Consultant opportunities at Moorhouse Consulting</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Project and programme management consultants - Monthly careers evenings in Westminster, Central London </div> <div style="font-style:italic"></div> <br /> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://events.top-consultant.com/UK/careerconference.aspx?ID=382">Strategy Consulting - <br>Exceptional careers for exceptional people</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff"><FONT face=Verdana size="2" color=#3399FF><I>Germany, Benelux, Dubai and the UK</i></font><br> <FONT face=Verdana size="2" >STRATEGIC in everything you do? 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