Management consulting job portal Top-Consultant.com will be hosting a virtual career event on June 20th. The Virtual Careers Fair was originally announced in April and the first in what will hopefully be a long line of online career events takes place on Friday, June 20th.

Here is the list of firms that will be exhibiting at the event:   

Efficio

Ernst & Young

FreshMinds

Gartner

Hedra

Hitachi Consulting

Hudson & Yorke

IBM

Jefferson Wells

Lodestone Management Consultants

Michael Warwick Nicholls

Mindbench

Morse Group

Mott MacDonald

Navigant Consulting

Pcubed

Place Group

Project One Consulting

Proudfoot Consulting

PRTM

Qedis

Sapient

SQS Group

Tefen

The Lamberhurst Corporation

Top-Consultant.com

TUSP

The event is invitation only and all management and IT consultants as well as fast-track executives with the right academic profile are eligible to apply. 

To find out more about the event, visit Top-Consultant.  

Consultancy training firm Elevation Learning has invited all management consultants to a two-day “summer training camp” at Latimer Place in Buckinghamshire on July 17 and 18.

The idea is for consultants to get a chance to learn new skills and broaden their horizons. A number of consultancy experts and gurus will be present at the event to share new insights on methods of engaging one’s clients and boosting sales and profits.

The notion of a consultants' summer camp was conceived by Calvert Markham, management consultancy veteran, author and managing director at Elevation Learning. He says:

"Consultants are a talented and maverick bunch, who tend to respond well to a creative approach to training rather than formal 'classroom' style, and our event reflects that with tai chi, qi gong and opportunities to network and recharge built into the two days. Delegates then create their own tailored agenda to suit their individual needs, by selecting subjects from 3 streams -- Growing Sales, Consulting Skills Refresh and Consulting Labs. I guarantee they will take away a range of innovative tools and techniques that they will be able to apply to tricky client situations straight away."

The management consulting careers site Top-Consultant.com has a number of career events scheduled for the coming months.

If you are interested in attending open evenings with IBM or the Place Group, please make sure you fill out the registration forms on the Events page by the end of the month.

Open evenings provide job seekers with an excellent opportunity to check out a company and its employees before applying for a job there and they often help consultants decide on the next step in their career.

IBM hosts a Recruitment Open Evening for SAP Professionals on June 12th. The company is eager to meet seasoned SAP professionals who are interested in joining their Global Business Services Team.

The Place Group Open Evenings will be hosted in Birmingham, Manchester and London in May and June. The consultancy is currently recruiting Consultants, Project Managers and Client Directors across England to join their team of professionals who aim to deliver 21st century education to British schools and pave the way in the transformation of Children's Services.

To find out about other career events and how they may benefit your career, please visit Top-Consultant.

Top-Consultant.com is organizing another in the series of its popular career seminars for consultants – The Art of Selling Consulting Services – and has scheduled a new date for July 10.

The career event has already drawn more than 650 consultants from firms like Deloitte, Capgemini, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SAP Consulting, Atos Consulting and others.

The goal of the annual seminar is to help consultants put their career on the fast track by learning how to win more clients for their firms.

The seminar is held by leading sales trainers. The positive feedback indicates that it has benefitted both young consultants and experienced sales professionals. The July sales training seminar is conceived to empower consultants accelerate their sales ability in a single day and improve their effectiveness as business developers in their firms.

Places for the seminar are limited and available only with reservations.

For more details about the event, the sessions and the presenters or to book a place, please visit the Top-Consultant Career Events page.

Deloitte LLP chief executive officer Barry Salzberg will deliver a speech titled “Who Took My Workforce: New Realities for the New Era” at the Omni Los Angeles hotel at noon on May 7.

After addressing the Millenial workforce, Salzberg will be taking questions on how the new generation of employees is affecting the world of business.

Salzberg, who has been with Deloitte since 1977, will also discuss larger issues related to new talent and employment trends. The Deloitte CEO has previously spoken of the issue of attracting the Generation Y employees to the workplace.

He said: “We have made a huge effort to understand and respond to the unique strengths and style of Gen Y. Younger people want respect and they demand choices. Above all, they want to be valued and noticed for their contribution. What I find most exciting is that it’s a process that is changing how all the generations work together.”

The event is organized by Town Hall Los Angeles, a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to examining important issues of the present day society.

For more information, visit the Town Hall website.

To apply for the latest Deloitte jobs, please visit our IT job board.   

IBM will host a career event for SAP professionals on June 12, 2008.

The company is recruiting SAP experts with “extensive client facing consulting skills, developed through multiple project lifecycles, with industry specific expertise” in any of the following sectors:

• Oil
• Banking
• Retail
• Utilities
• Public Sector
• Distribution
• Communications

If you are ready for the next big step in your career or would like to learn more about working for IBM Global Business Services, the company has invited you to attend the Recruitment Open Evening on June 12.

Attendance is invitation only due to limited spaces. To receive an invitation, please fill out the registration form available at Top-Consultant.

In the meantime, you are welcome to browse and apply for the latest IBM jobs on our IT job board.

The management consulting job portal Top-Consultant has announced a series of virtual career fairs starting June 20th, 2008. Further events are planned for November and beyond, depending on the feedback from exhibitors.

28 recruiting organisations have already committed to exhibiting and a total of 45 organisations are expected to make an appearance at the Virtual Careers Fair. The booking deadline for exhibitors is May 31.

Other than being easier to attend for a larger number of IT and management consultants, virtual career fairs have  another significant advantage. Top-Consultant's Founding Director Tony Restell says:

“A major factor in the decision to launch a virtual offering was the desire to make it easier for consultants to attend our fairs. Logging into a virtual fair for an hour is much less intrusive than having to take a day off to attend an event in person. Going virtual also addresses one of the biggest concerns that candidates have about attending a physical fair – that they’ll be spotted at the fair by their current employer.”

To make sure only qualified candidates get access to potential employers at the career event, Top-Consultant will give priority to the consultants who are registered on the job portal’s CV database. You can register your CV in the Get Headhunted section. The Virtual Careers Fair will also offer an additional advantage to the recruiters: the candidates who are granted access to the event will be pre-screened.

“From the employer side a virtual event means that a stand can be manned by staff from across the world and that opportunities in a variety of office locations can be discussed with the appropriate member of staff. This considerably increases the likelihood of successful hires being made. An international presence on a firm’s stand can be achieved without the need for any costly travel, loss of billable time or carbon offsetting expense. Setup time per exhibitor is also minimal and the cost of participating is a fraction of that needed to exhibit at a physical careers fair,” says Restell.

Recruiters who are interested in participating or learning about other benefits of the Virtual Career Fair are welcome to contact the Top-Consultant team on +44 (0)207 667 6880 and request the brochure.

Top-Consultant's 'physical' Careers Fair takes place in London every year in October.

The University of Wolverhampton will host an IT careers event – the annual IT Careers Fair – on Thursday to allow graduates and students learn more about careers in the information technology industry.

The open day will take place in the Exhibition Hall at the City Campus on Thursday, April 10. It will start at noon and last for four hours.

Some of the employers who will send representatives to promote IT graduate jobs and training schemes at the event include Capgemini, Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Corp. and Hays Information Technology.

In reference to the careers day, Employer Liaison Officer Kam Atwal said:

“This is a great opportunity for students and recent graduates to meet representatives from top companies and find out more about pursuing a successful career in the IT industry.”

To book a place call 01902 518570.

PA Consulting is hosting a career event for IT consultants who are considering joining the PA Consulting Group. On May 22, the consultancy will organize a recruitment evening and open the doors of its London office to talented IT consultants who are looking for their next career opportunity.

“We view IT as a strategic asset, a critical contributor to an organisation that helps drive superior results and create business value,” the invitation reads. 

“Our breadth and depth of understanding in information technology, combined with our commercial expertise, allows us to operate in the critical juncture where IT and the business meet and deliver creative, business oriented solutions across IT systems, software and infrastructure strategy, architecture, design, implementation, service management and sourcing.”

The Recruitment Open Evening will take place at the PA Head Office, 123 Buckingham Palace Road on Thursday, May 22, 2008.

Attendance is invitation only due to limited spaces so if you would like to be there for the career event, you need to fill out a registration form which you can find on the  Top-Consultant Events page. 

In the meantime, you can browse the latest job opportunities with PA Consulting on our IT consulting job board.  

Accenture is looking for SAP experts to join their team of IT professionals in the company's Edinburgh office. The IT consultancy has extended an invitation to all SAP professionals who are ready for the next big step in their career to attend the SAP Recruitment Event in Edinburgh at 6pm on April 10.

With several decades of expertise in the field and more than 20,000 experts worldwide, Accenture is a recognized global leader in SAP implementation services. Accenture consultants help their clients, FORTUNE 500 companies, overcome all the challenges in information technology and implement solutions that set their businesses on the fast track to success.

The consultancy firm implements over a thousand large-scale SAP projects each year and is looking to recruit more IT professionals for a wide range of SAP roles.

The company will also host a SAP Virtual Recruitment Event between 8am and 7pm on April 18. You can register for the event on the Accenture website. In the meantime, you can apply for the latest Accenture jobs on our IT consulting job board.