The Software Simplist is a blog by Udi Dahan, an IT expert, consultant, and author. In this post he gives his recipe for becoming a successful IT consultant. It has six ingredients: Have a niche, Get to be well-known, Get published, Speak at conferences, Get your expertise, and Make it billable. Easier said than done? Read the entire article and you might find it quite doable.

His blog mostly deals with software architecture, so you’ll find resourceful posts on topics such as SOA, web services, distributed systems…

Check it out: Software Simplist

Many of our visitors and forum members are based in the UK and interested in London, as discussions often show. How to relocate to London? How to cut expenses living there? Where to go to find a flat and where to buy an interview shirt?

Now there's HEADstart2London to resolve these any many other issues. This web site helps you set up financially and professionally before you get to London. Its resources include information on healthcare, national insurance, taxes and other unavoidables that would take you long to research on your own.

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This website’s parent is Top-Consultant.com, founded by two successful ex-consultants in 2000. Since then it became the leading management consultancy recruitment website in the world, with more than 65,000 ads published since 2001.

It is a place where a consultant will find (among other resources) a huge selection of jobs, ranging from graduate to senior opportunities, and from the biggest consultancies to niche firms. There really is no better resource for management consultants!

Check it out: www.top-consultant.com