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5 things you can do better than Boris in your consulting job search  It’s a tough time in the job market for many at the moment and things can get overwhelming. We may not have control of much right now but here’s what we can do.  Develop an Effective Track and Trace System Whether you’ve […]

Has Covid killed Consulting – the evolution of the consulting market! As with most markets the C19 pandemic has been a fast-track mechanism for change within the consulting industry. Even Ascent Professional Services is no exception. Companies have had to evolve or die and the consulting market is no different. I have spoken to hundreds of management […]

Introducing Efficio Consulting We recently got the chance to host a presentation from Simon Whatson, a Principal at Efficio,  the world’s largest procurement consultancy operating across ten offices in Europe, North America and the Middle East. Efficio help organisations reduce costs, improve internal processes and upskill their procurement teams so that they can realise cost […]

The Right Decision When making the switch from one job to another, most of us will always wonder if we’re making the right decision. It won’t always feel like an easy transition and can often bring about trepidation in doing so. Sometimes these factors are easy to define and sometimes not. Here are some things […]

Graduates are normally encouraged to join the apparent safe haven of the branded global consultancies. Certainly there is merit in doing this, but more and more graduates now start their career at a boutique firm. Why is this trend emerging, and what are the boutique businesses doing to attract up and coming talent? Culture Boutique firms […]

As much as we may enjoy our jobs, we’re not doing them out of the goodness out hearts, so we’d always do well to ask ourselves if we are seeing the right remuneration for services rendered. Money can be a rather vulgar and mercenary subject at the best of times, and approaching this topic with […]

As much as we may enjoy our jobs, we’re not doing them out of the goodness out hearts, so we’d always do well to ask ourselves if we are seeing the right remuneration for services rendered. Money can be a rather vulgar and mercenary subject at the best of times, and approaching this topic with […]