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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
 
  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 books. Many did 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.”
  
 
 turbulent time for
graduate recruitment. The
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
 
 
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
 
  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 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 American
chairman Pierre Danon,