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  Thursday, 10th July, 2008
Finance Transformation Consultants - £50,000-£500,000 packages++
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Opportunities globally for Consultants through to Partner level with skills in: Budgeting, Planning, Forecasting, Reporting, Shared Services, Business Intelligence ( SAP, Oracle Hyperion, Cognos, Business Objects ), KPIs and CFO Advisory work

Business & Consultancy News
Are consulting job opportunities about to dry up?
The current raft of recessionary news headlines may have many readers fearing for the career options they’ll still have open to them 6 months hence. But as Top-Consultant.com’s co-founder explains, 2008 is a far cry from the depths of the dot-com crisis when firms were forced into redundancies and mass hiring freezes. An analysis suggests that UK consulting firms will still need to hire several thousand new staff this year, down considerably on the heady days of 2006 and 2007 but a healthy position nonetheless. Full article >>>
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CRM careers
Fantastic opportunities for CRM consultants within the Change Management and Business Transformation fields.

Elevation Learning -
Summer School Conference at Latimer, Buckinghamshire

Our summer conference offers busy consultants an opportunity to keep up to date with the latest thinking across a broad range of subjects.
17 & 18 July 2008
 
SAP openings
Fantastic opportunities for SAP consultants within the Change Management and Business Transformation fields.
HayGroup have opportunities for Consultants in the Middle East

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An unprovoked attack on the consultancy industry
Last week I argued that consultants should value their advice more, and make sure that clients do the same by charging a reasonable price.

Of course, what I was forgetting was that some people still value consultancy at naught: last Sunday’s Observer contained yet another apparently unprovoked attack on the consultancy industry. It’s mainly old stuff, but its repeated recourse to figures shows a conundrum consultancy increasingly faces...
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How to turn a free consultation into paid work
Many professionals offer free introductory consultations as a way of engaging with potential clients and demonstrating competence. Malcolm Sleath suggests some pointers to help get the best results from the investment in time and effort. Full article >>>
Partners – Want to network with other UK consulting Partners?

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Cheap advice is bad advice
"We provide McKinsey (or Big Four) quality advice at much lower prices," they tell me. But that can't be. It might be the same advice, but all advice is worthless if it's not taken. So by making it more expensive we really do make it better. Full article >>>
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Thought Leadership
Two rainmaking traps to avoid
Those who sell professional services often fall into traps. One trap is All-or-nothing thinking. Another is Build-it-and-they-will-come. This piece examines how to spot these traps - and to avoid them.
(Ford Harding, President of Harding & Company)
What to do when you don't have references or testimonials
Becoming a freelancer or starting a new business can be tough especially when you have no references or testimonials. Bernadette Doyle shares some creative ideas for overcoming this stumbling block on the way to your success.
(Bernadette Doyle - Client Magnets)
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