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Milkround recruiting looks set for a five year high     Management Consultancy milkround recruitment volumes look set to hit five-year highs this year, bringing to an end a period that has been characterised by anaemic graduate intakes.    The change comes as consultancies battle with an imbalance in the demand and supply for experienced hires – and, in particular, a shortage of junior staff with just one to two years’ experience.    Looking back, the last three years have been a turbulent time for graduate recruitment. The     just that - creating a glut of new joiners the following year with a knock-on effect on graduate recruitment targets in subsequent years.    Fortunately, much like a Premier League football club, consultancies know that many of their future stars will be home grown. While some can be poached from the competition, by far the biggest source of future big-hitters will come from within the firm’s own ranks. With the industry having returned to more buoyant times,     the tables have now turned and milkround recruiting is today very much back on the agenda as a resourcing priority.    Commenting on the change, Top-Consultant.com Director Tony Restell noted:“The 2002-2004 period was a sombre time for new graduates looking to enter the consulting profession, particularly in the most appealing area of strategy consulting. The 2005 market is looking much more encouraging. Consulting firms’ clients are demanding     more experienced personnel on their consulting engagement teams – which means graduate recruiting will not be as buoyant as it was back in 2000. But levels have picked up markedly from 2002-2004 and graduates entering the profession in the next year can expect a couple of years of strong growth and, therefore, promotion prospects with their new employer.”           unexpected downturn in the consulting sector led firms to encourage graduates to opt for deferred entry so as to limit the number of new joiners they had on their books. Many did

FTI Consulting enters growing UK interim leadership industry     FTI Palladium Partners, FTI Consulting’s interim leadership arm, is to build on the growth in demand in Europe for its services by expanding its network to London. The UK practice is to be headed by Mark Palios, former chief executive of The Football Association in the UK, who has over 20 years’ experience in the turnaround industry.        FTI PP was established two years ago to provide a sole focus on interim leadership. This was largely in response to a shift in the growing international marketplace for turnaround skills. This is a market which was once driven solely by demand from the large banks in their traditional position as     lenders. Now, increasingly in the US and Europe, demand is being driven by international players in private equity and distressed fund groups requiring assistance with various investments in portfolios.    Palios has a mandate to build the practice in the UK by developing a cadre of top professionals to provide     leadership for companies. This team will be responsible for analysing, devising and, most importantly, implementing credible restructuring plans to deliver long-term viability.    Prior to his position as chief executive at the FA, Palios was UK leader for Business Regeneration at PricewaterhouseCoopers     (PwC) where he developed that firm’s approach to corporate turnaround and pioneered the development of executive leadership. While at PwC, he worked with several other PwC Business Restructuring Services partners who joined FTI in the US in August 2002.

Transatlantic partnership for Corven     The UK office of Corven Consulting and Boston-based Cambridge Leadership Associates (CLA) have partnered to provide joint pan-European consultancy services for public and private organisations seeking to develop greater capacity for     leading and adapting to change.    CLA’s methodology, called Adaptive Leadership, stems from the work of Ronald A Heifetz, a professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and author of Leadership Without     Easy Answers. In 2002, Heifetz co-authored the best selling Leadership on the Line with fellow Harvard professor Marty Linsky. The tremendous response to this book led to the founding of CLA, which applies the principles of Adaptive Leadership to     commercial, government and educational institutions globally.    Adaptive Leadership helps individuals throughout an organization - not just senior executives - deal directly with the value conflicts, personal and system dynamics,     resistance and turmoil that are inevitable in achieving meaningful change. CLA is currently engaged by South Ayrshire Council in the UK.

Capgemini appoints North American general manager     American chairman Pierre Danon, Salil Parekh has been appointed general manager of Capgemini North America Project and Consulting business. He has also joined the Group’s Executive Committee.    In his previous role     as chief operating officer, Parekh implemented and drove the restructuring of Capgemini’s North American operating model towards eight business units with a very strong regional focus. Parekh’s primary mission in his     new role will be to lead further the recovery of Consulting and Technology Services.    Parekh, who has been with the Capgemini Group for 13 years, joined the North America subsidiary in March 2005 as chief operating officer. Prior     to that, he was global leader of Technology Services, CEO of Capgemini India and deputy COO of Capgemini Asia Pacific.           Following the departure of COO and North

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