| Insights from the Consultancy Careers Fair suggest sector is still growing apace
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| | The credit wobble of
recent months may have
given us reason to fear
for the health of the
economy, but whilst this
has hit the financial
sector pretty hard it
has so far had little
impact on the consulting
sector. This is the key
conclusion to emerge
from our whistlestop
tour of consulting firms
exhibiting at the
Consultancy Careers Fair
on 12th October – and
the feedback received
since.
“The major brand
names are continuing to
recruit significant
numbers of new staff and
are reporting heady
hiring targets for 2008,
in spite of recent
concerns about a credit
crunch,” commented
Top-Consultant director
Tony Restell.
“A few with heavy
exposure to the
financial sector are
monitoring the situation
closely – and strategy
practices that have been
doing a lot of work with
private equity clients
have clearly suffered a
slowdown in project
wins; but for the
majority of firms it’s
very much business as
usual – and the clamour
to attract new hires is
showing no signs of
diminishing outside of
the FS practice areas,”
he added.
Ten leading
consulting brands gave
presentations at the
Consultancy Careers Fair
on 12th October that
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The Lausanne
Consulting Group
participated again this
year and commented: “We
had hundreds of visits
to our stand, including
not only candidates who
came to pre-arranged
personal interviews with
us, but also candidates
who discovered us at the
event.” The spokesman
added: “As a result of
the event we have
selected excellent
candidates to be part of
our recruitment
processes and have
created alliances with
business schools.”
Nimisha Overton,
marketing manager at
Selecture, commented:
“The publicity for this
event was excellent – we
found ourselves talking
to people who had
travelled from Europe
specifically to attend.
There was a great mix of
individuals, ranging
from newly qualified
students right up to
director level, with
varying skills that
could be transferred to
a very prosperous role
in consultancy.”
Selecture also
observed that its
attendance at the
Careers Fair was
complemented by its
ongoing presence on the
Top-Consultant site:
“Due to our job
advertising on
Top-Consultant, it
seemed that everybody
that we spoke to was
aware of our brand and
wanted to come and find
out what we had to
offer. We obtained some | |
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| | excellent CVs that have
been put forward for
interviews and also put
faces to the names of
some of our clients.”
Attendees at this
year’s fair had the
chance to meet three of
the “Big Four”
accountancy firms –
Deloitte, Ernst & Young
and KPMG; many of the
world’s leading
consulting brands such
as Accenture, Atos
Consulting, BT and IBM;
plus a diverse range of
exciting niche firms
like Capco, Curzon,
Detica, expw: consulting
and Troika.
The organisations
were represented by 500+
members of staff,
comprising a mixture of
HR and practising
consultants, giving
candidates a wide range
of people to talk to at
each of the exhibiting
stands.
The final exhibitor
list comprised:
Accenture
ActionCOACH Business
Coaching
Amdocs Consulting
Analysys Mason Group
AppLabs
Arup
Atkins
Atos Consulting
Auditel
Axon
Beament Leslie Thomas
(BLT)
BT Global Consulting
buyingTeam
Capco
Citihub
Cognizant
Consulting Point
Convergys
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Curzon & Company
Deloitte
Detica
EM Consulting
Ernst & Young
expw: consulting
FreshMinds
Goodman Masson
Hay Group
Hedra
Hitachi Consulting
IBM
Institute of Business
Consulting (IBC)
KPMG
Lausanne Consulting
Group
Management
Consultancies
Association
Michael Warwick
Nicholls (MWN)
Mindbench
Morse
Mott MacDonald
Oracle
Parson Consulting
PCubed
Project One
Consulting
Proudfoot Consulting
PRTM
Qedis
Selecture
Siemens
SQS Group
TATA Consultancy
Services
TDX Group
Tefen
The Berkeley
Partnership
The Lamberhurst
Corporation
The Structure Group
Top-Consultant.com
Troika
Vault
Woodhurst
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| | perception that hiring
is still continuing
apace. Recordings of
these presentations are
now available to watch
online.
In addition, the
Management Consultancies
Association – the UK
industry body – shared
the latest trend data
for the UK’s consulting
sector and these
insights are also
available to readers.
Recordings of the
presentations by
Accenture, Amdocs
Consulting, Atkins
Management Consultants,
Atos Consulting, BT
Global Consulting, Ernst
& Young, Hedra Plc, IBM,
the Management
Consultancies
Association, PCubed and
TATA Consultancy
Services can be accessed
by visiting:
top-consultant.com
Positive
feedback
Exhibitor feedback
also suggests that a
significant number of
hires will result from
the fair. The
overwhelming feeling was
that the quality of
candidates far surpassed
that seen at the 2006
event. The impressive
number of hires made in
2006 should
correspondingly increase
this year, though it’s
too early to tell who
will gain most from
exhibiting at the fair. | |
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