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, 10th 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/appointments.asp?firm=Wipro+Technologies">Wipro Technologies - Senior consultants required</a></div> <div><br>Wipro Technologies are looking for senior professionals who have performed strategic and senior management roles such as Account Management, Program Management and IT Strategy for their Financial Services division in the UK. <br><br> </div> <div><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.top-consultant.com/uk/career/appointments.asp?firm=Wipro+Technologies">Interested? Please 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=6086">Seven reasons Consulting continues to engage, challenge and entice the country s finest</a></div> <div>Those readers who ve stuck to their consulting career aspirations have certainly been given reason to think twice. </div> <div style="font-size:8pt"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=6086" >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=423">The Art of Selling Consulting Services </a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Looking to accelerate you career from delivery consultant to business winner? Need to refine your sales skills in this harsh economic climate?<br><i>London (Mayfair) - Friday 20th November 2009</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=424">Business Consulting Qualifications: Set Yourself Ahead</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Investing in you when the business climate is tough is a shrewd business decision. Seize the opportunity. </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=401">Strategic Analytics Recruitment Campaign - Senior Strategy Consultant Opportunities</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">If you're the best of the best and want to work with like minded Strategy Consultants come and meet us at one of our open 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=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://events.top-consultant.com/UK/careerconference.aspx?ID=421">Your career at a crossroads  which way next?<br><i>Friday 23rd October 2009 (afternoon event)  Central London</i></a></div> <div><br>What should an ambitious consultant like yourself do with their career in the coming year? 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