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, 3rd September 2009 </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=34856">Process Manager - Swindon</a></div> <div><b>£49,945 - £54,940 dependent on experience</b><br><br> A brand new role always offers the freedom to make your mark. 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In a climate where fast-track career progression has been replaced by career stagnation, we thought we d take a tongue-in-cheek look at the 10 best and 10 worst aspects of sticking with consulting for the coming year.</div> <div style="font-size:8pt"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=6084" >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="">Coming Soon</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Top-Consultant's management consulting <b>salary survey</b> will be published soon. Watch this space.</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=419">Roles and Habits of Effective Leaders - <br>Stephen Covey - 14th October 2009, Manchester </a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Your chance to meet the internationally respected leadership authority and author of the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century.</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=421">Your career at a crossroads  which way next?</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Friday 23rd October 2009 (afternoon event)  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=394">Hudson & Yorke Recruitment Campaign</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Hudson & Yorke is seeking talented professionals to join its specialist team pioneering best practice in Strategy, Sourcing and Governance of telecoms and networks. </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=408">AT Kearney Managing Consultants: Strategy and Operations</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Exceptional openings for specialists with strategy/operations consulting experience in the <b>Oil/Energy</b> sector. </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">Project and programme management consultants</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff"><b>Senior Consultant opportunities at Moorhouse Consulting</b><br>We won the Project Management Company of the Year award at the APM. Come and find out why at our monthly Careers Evenings</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=420">A MasterClass<br>Nurturing Connected Leadership: Creating Agile and High Performing Organisations - 29th September 2009</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Gobillot offers an alternative view looking at organisations to make them robust and flexible to manage change.</div> <div style="font-style:italic"></div> <br /> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://www.ibconsulting.org.uk/bulkemails/Flyer_Midlands_Roadshow.pdf">IBC Event - 'Innovation in Consulting: Bringing ideas to life' - <br>6 October 2009, Hilton Warwick</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Your chance to gain practical strategies and best practice examples of innovation, plus insight into the latest research and regional developments relating to this important topic. </div> <div style="font-style:italic"></div> <br /> <!--- advert2 --> <div id="Div4" 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=34881">Kurt Salmon Associates is hiring Consultants and Senior Consultants</a></div> <div><br> Are you looking for on-going career development in an international retail consultancy? 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