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Hitachi Consulting acquires UK IT consulting firm     Hitachi Consulting has acquired Edenbrook, a UK‐based IT consulting firm which specialises in delivering Microsoft and Oracle solutions. Edenbrook’s client base includes Virgin Media, easyJet, BUPA, Lloyds TSB and Whitbread. Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed.       Founded in 2001,     Edenbrook, helps organisations evaluate, select, and implement advanced programmes designed to have a measurable effect on business efficiency. It operates from offices in London and Manchester in the UK and Pune in India.       “Joining with Hitachi Consulting is an important milestone in     and Asia, we can now also serve better the global needs of our clients,” he added.       Kilpatrick, who has 19 years’ experience in the IT consulting industry, and was previously at Oracle UK, will become managing vice president of Hitachi Consulting in the UK.           The acquisition of Edenbrook will add 200 people in the UK and 50 in India to Hitachi Consulting’s existing management consultancy business in the UK, increasing its IT consultancy capability, along with development and managed service expertise around Microsoft and Oracle applications.     the development of our business, allowing us to offer greater breadth and depth of capability to both our existing clients and the wider market place,” said David Kilpatrick, managing director of Edenbrook. “Through Hitachi Consulting’s strength in the United States, Europe

PwC named top finance employer for graduates for the first time     Professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has been named the finance sector graduate employer of the year in the annual Times High Fliers Top Graduate Employers survey.       The survey of 16,000 students nationwide selected PwC as the top finance sector employer for the first time, reflecting the growing interest of training and graduate positions outside of the financial services sector during the recession. Application rates to the     firm are up to 50% higher than last year as competition for places intensifies from recent graduates, and those looking for new careers.       PwC, which is recruiting 1,000 graduates this year, was awarded the top accountancy sector employer for the 10th consecutive year.       Ian Powell, chairman and senior partner said: “To win both the accountancy and finance awards is a reflection not only of the quality of what we offer, but the     Clinic has been visited over 38,000 times since its launch in September, equivalent to one in 10 of the 2008 graduate population.       The clinic is part of the 2009 recruitment campaign - ‘Take F1VE’ - which challenged students to think beyond their academic achievement to make themselves distinctive in their application to employers. The campaign visited 40 campuses nationwide this year, and was backed by a comprehensive programme of careers and interview advice, commercial     awareness seminars and reception evenings at universities and office locations.       PwC will take on 125 graduates at 11 offices across the UK this month in the first of its three graduate intakes this year. Over 40% of the graduates will join the firm's London financial services team.       The firm is recruiting currently for vacancies in the Midlands, South, North West and Greater London.     reality that in the recession graduates are looking outside of the banking sector for finance training and careers.       “We put a big emphasis on employability skills this year in our recruitment campaign, and I have no doubt that it played a part in this result. It resonated very strongly with student job seekers in the recession."       The online PwC Employability Skills