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 December 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?sel_firm=14">Ernst & Young  Performance Improvement opportunities</a></div> <div><br>Ernst & Young s Performance Improvement team are recruiting Executives and Managers across Program Management, Operations & Customer, Finance, and IT Advisory. Choose a role to match your talents, join their team, and discover international opportunities that will change your future forever. <br><br> </div> <div><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.top-consultant.com/uk/career/appointments.asp?sel_firm=14">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=6403"><b>Candidates set to miss recruiting deadline</b></a></div> <div><i>By Top-Consultant Director and Co-Founder, Tony Restell</i> <br><br> In recent months I ve been the first to pour cold water on suggestions that significant hiring might be back on the agenda. I like to tell things how they are - rather than be seen as guilty of talking up the market. Which is why I ve written that we can expect to see a slow and gradual upturn in hiring activity next year rather than anything more dramatic.</div> <div style="font-size:8pt"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=6403" >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://www.top-consultant.com/14th_December_training.asp"><font color=#FF0000 >Last chance to register</font> - Training Event for Recruiters</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Monday 14th December 2009 (morning 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=421"><font color=#FF0000 >Last chance to register</font> - Your career at a crossroads  which way next?</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Monday 14th December 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=429">Growth and Innovation Consultants; Client Leads and Project Leads</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Do you have experience of identifying, developing and launching new business ventures for large blue-chip companies?</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 - Senior Consultant opportunities at Moorhouse Consulting</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">We are the APM Project Management Company of the Year 2008 and finalists for the National Business Awards Employer of the Year. Find out why at one of 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=427"> Move ahead in your career</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Exceptional strategy and operational improvement consulting opportunities with consulting firms and internally with banks through <b>Mindbench</b>! </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=425"> Cognizant Technology Solutions</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Cognizant provides <b>high-value</b> strategic IT management solutions. 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What&#39;s more, they view IT as an important part of their economic recovery efforts, according to the findings of a global study by Accenture and produced in cooperation with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).</div> <div style="font-size:8pt"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=6386" >Full article>>></a></div> <br /> <div style="font-weight:bold"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=6406">Job prospects continue to slowly improve in Americas and Europe</a></div> <div>Manpower Employment Outlook Survey reveals weakest first-quarter hiring plans for the US since 1982, while new-year hiring expected to return to pre-recession pace in Asia Pacific. </div> <div style="font-size:8pt"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=6406" >Full article>>></a></div> <br /> <!--- advert4 --> <div id="Div6" 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=140"> Revealed: How to ace your case study interview</a></div> <div><br><b>"I've done interviews at Bain and OC&C and they were very similar to what was taught in this course."</b> <br><br> </div> <div><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://events.top-consultant.com/UK/careerconference.aspx?ID=140"> If you have case study interviews coming up in the next weeks then click here for details of our next course.</a></div> </div> </div> </td> <td bordercolor="#FFFFFF" valign=top style="font-family:verdana;font-size:10pt;" width="220px"> <!--- Rec Button --> <div id="recButton" style="text-align:center;padding-top:20%;padding-bottom:20%"> <a href="http://recruiters.top-consultant.com/UK/clientcentre/solutions.aspx" style="border:none"> <img src="http://news.top-consultant.com/images/recbutton.jpg" alt="button for recruiters" style="border:none"/> </a> </div> <hr style="height:1px;background-color:#0098ff;color:#0098ff;width:80%;" /> <!--- CT Plug --> <div id="ctplug" style="text-align:center;color:#0098ff;width:100%"> Consulting Times <a href="http://www.consulting-times.com" style="border:none;margin-left:8%"> <img src="http://news.top-consultant.com/images/times_cover_small.jpg" alt="button for consulting times" style="border:none"/> </a> </div> <div id="Div1" style="text-align:center;color:#0098ff;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px"> <a href="http://www.consulting-times.com" style="border:none;font-size:8pt">Get Your Copy Here</a> </div> <hr style="height:1px;background-color:#0098ff;color:#0098ff;width:80%;" /> <!--- ToolBar Plug --> <div id="Div2" style="text-align:center;color:#0098ff;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px"> Top-Consultant Toolbar<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.top-consultant.com/toolbar.asp" style="border:none;margin-top:10px"> <img src="http://news.top-consultant.com/images/button.jpg" alt="button for toolbar" style="border:none"/> </a> </div> <hr style="height:1px;background-color:#0098ff;color:#0098ff;width:80%;" /> <!--- JBE Plug --> <div id="Div3" style="text-align:center;color:#0098ff;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px"> &nbsp;<br /> <a href="http://www.top-consultant.com/UK/career/myjobsbyemail.asp" style="border:none;margin-top:10px"> <img src="http://news.top-consultant.com/images/button5.jpg" alt="button for toolbar" style="border:none"/> </a> </div> <hr style="height:1px;background-color:#0098ff;color:#0098ff;width:80%;" /> <div style="color:#000080;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:10px">Thought Leadership</div> <div style="font-size:10pt"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://thought-leadership.top-consultant.com/UK/New_ways_to_engage__1964.html">New ways to engage</a></div> <div style="font-size:10pt"> How do I engage with key decision-makers? 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