I was an early adopter of Linked-In c.2004 if memory serves. I decided very early on that the only way to get the value out of the platform was to have the largest possible network,… 

Ask any professional services individual who has moved from one firm to another about their recruitment experience and you will probably get a whince, particularly those that have gone through a direct admit Partner process.… 

There is a growing trend in Professional Services firms to try and “insource” their senior level recruiting and rely less on external agencies or Executive Search firms. Frankly I applaud this. Why you ask? Well… 

The last few years should have been a sticky time for consultancy companies. There were a lot of mergers, separations and acquisitions. The global financial bubble had truly burst. Coupled with a general downturn in… 

Somebody once said, it may have been Jack Welch, ‘There are three kinds of people in the world; those who make things happen; those who watch things happen; and those who wonder what happened.’ I… 

In previous keynotes we have established the ground rules for what motivates people to leave a company. I have given you a flavour of the expectations of 21st Century management consultants. The factors that enable… 

So what’s next for the “Big 4” Professional Services giants, and the consulting market in general, and how does this affect Talent. The accountancy and business consultancy profession has always been an industry of change,… 

Global mobility in the work force has developed over the past few decades from the traditional “ex-pat” one or two year secondment to become a comprehensive part of any organisations strategic talent agenda. Companies in…