How to Get a Competitive Edge in a Career in Consulting

PRLog - Nov. 9, 2010 - PLAINFIELD, Ill. -- Today’s graduating college seniors are facing the anxiety and fear of graduating into a work world that doesn’t want them. According to a recent Chicago Tribune article, “Unemployment for 20- to 24-year-olds hit a record high of more than 17 percent earlier this year.” As businesses turn to consulting firms in lieu of hiring full-time employees to complete needed projects and staffing, Consulting may be the one industry that provides opportunities for entry-level job seekers.
Consulting is an exciting and challenging industry that provides significant opportunities for success. Consulting firms hire bright people with business knowledge from industry experience or directly out of college to help their clients solve business problems.
In addition to business knowledge, however, new consultants need to know critical skills such as client relationship management, effective expectation setting, how to sell consulting services and how to handle difficult clients.  Consulting 101: 101 Tips For Success in Consulting uses case studies to provide job seekers with useful tips to optimize their professional performance and jump-start their career for success.

Consulting 101: 101 Tips For Success in Consulting will be available in November 2010 at Booklocker Publishing (www.BookLocker.com), www.Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble (www.BN.com) and iTunes (www.iTunes.com).
Lew Sauder has been a consultant with top-tier and boutique consulting firms for seventeen years. He has also served as an IT Manager outside of consulting as a client manager for five years in which he has sat on the other side of the desk hiring and managing consulting firms.

Mr. Sauder has a BS in Applied Computer Science from Illinois State University and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business.

Consulting 101: 101 Tips for Success in Consulting -Contact Information for Lew Sauder:
E-mail: Lew@Consulting101Book.com
Phone Days: 708/243-1944
Phone Evenings: 815/577-1092
www.Consulting101Book.com
Publication Date: November 2010
ISBN: 978-0-9830266-0-0
LCCN: 2010916158
Pages: 250
Price: $15.95

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Consulting 101 provides you with 101 tips to optimize your professional performance and jump-start your consulting career for success in areas such as Client relationship management, Expectation Setting and Effective communication.