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Leading consultancies confirm major upswing in management consultancy recruitment     "Over 240 candidates and 70 recruiters gathered in London today for Top-Consultant.com's sell-out consulting careers seminar. The consultancies present on the day were between them looking to hire several thousand new consultants in the UK this year, which goes a long way towards explaining why demand for places was so high. This level of recruitment activity has not been seen anytime since the dot-com boom days and candidates are starting to realise that now is the perfect time     to embark on a new career in consulting.    Top-Consultant Director Tony Restell commented: "Within days of the provisional date having been announced we were forced to turn away consulting firms who wanted to exhibit at the event, but for whom we simply did not have the space. Candidates too were left disappointed - the capacity of the venue simply wasn't enough and in the last week we had at least 40 candidates who tried to register for places but who found none were left."        Attending this week's event were many of the world's leading consulting brands, all of whom confirmed that recruitment in the UK consulting market is gathering considerable pace. Present on the day were Accenture, Atkins Management Consultants, Atos Consulting, Deloitte, DiamondCluster International, Ernst & Young, Hedra, IBM Business Consulting Services, Marakon Associates, PA Consulting, PRTM, Thoughtworks and WCI.    Top-tier strategy consultancy Marakon     confirmed that they are "sold out for the first half of the year", highlighting that the recovery is now reaching even the strategy consulting sector. Accenture, Atos Consulting, IBM and Hedra all relayed similar messages to Marakon - order books are full for many months to come and the only way the firms can deliver on more projects is to hire hundreds more consultants in the coming year.    Hedra expect to hire 100-150 consultants this year, IBM around 450     additional UK consultants and Atos Consulting 150-200 new staff. Accenture, meanwhile, pointed to their recently announced 14% growth in consulting revenues as an indicator that they too will be "being quite aggressive" in their recruitment initiatives this year. Accenture's forthcoming careers event (see: Click Here) is just one example of the greater lengths all these firms are going to win the war for talent this year.

Top-Consultant's readership numbers smash through the quarter of a million mark     The New Year has got off to a fantastic start for Management Consultancy Recruiters, with the news that Top-Consultant.com's readership has smashed through the quarter of a million mark.    With recruiting having moved up a gear in the last 9 months, the key question of late has been "will candidate interest keep pace and prevent a war for talent from breaking out in the     sector?" Towards the end of 2004 there were increasing concerns amongst recruiters that a battle of attrition would be fought in 2005 to attract and retain the best staff - diverting management's attention from the core challenge of growing consulting revenues and profitability. Managers at Top-Consultant determined that the best contribution they could make would be to     dramatically grow the readership of high-caliber candidates using the site - so that fierce competition between recruiters would remain subdued for as long as possible.    "With visitor numbers hitting 284,000, we've added considerably to the talent pool that consultancies can reach by running their campaigns on our site. This is in large part thanks to marketing     initiatives we put in place over the last months" commented Tony Restell, Director at Top-Consultant.    "However some of the increase is undoubtedly due to the massive increase in opportunities that the world's leading consulting brands have been advertising on the site in recent weeks. When you look at the huge array of consulting careers being advertised     on the site it's pretty conclusive evidence that these are the best recruitment conditions candidates have seen anytime in the last five years. That certainly helps when it comes to attracting a broader audience of candidates to the site." concluded Restell.

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