B2B consulting can be a good way if your business is not moving or moving in the wrong direction. Finding professional and expert advice can often be a good way to see your business in a different light. Often business owners do not take enough time to really look and assess their business. It can also be difficult when you are constantly involved in your business to have an objective opinion.

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I'm beginning to look into business schools and was talking about this with a business consultant, who also happens to be my neighbor. He said his daughter is working part-time with Empire Today while putting herself through business school. He said they had ordered Empire Carpet and that's how she got into it. She apparently also likes their business model. Hearing this made me realize that it would be good to work while in school, in order to have real life experience to incorporate into my learning. After all, if I want to be become an expert some day and be a business consultant myself, the more exposure I have to how companies are run, and see first hand different ways of operating a business, the more prepared I'll be, and the more I'll have to draw from in my consultations. My neighbor said that while theory is important as a basis, experience is just a important. He said that management decisions that are made without practical experience can be a big mistake. He recommends getting as broad a basis of experience as possible, starting early on. MBA's, in his view, only make people useful to a certain extent. If people are too removed from real life business experience, or if their perspective isn't broad enough and informed enough from different levels and different points of view, it can lead to bad judgment calls in the business world. That's advice that I'm going to take to heart.

Sales recruitment agency awards in Ireland are given out by the National Recruitment Federation to recognize excellence in the field each year. The application process for the awards will begin this August, and the final decisions will be announced in a major gala ceremony in November at the Shelbourne Hotel.

This is the only award ceremony of its kind for the industry in Ireland, and it is designed to provide initiative and reward excellence in sales recruitment. All of the entrants must be NRF members, and the competition will be judged by an independent group of judges who are the CEOs of industry leading firms and local government bodies. There are 14 different awards to be given out this year, in categories like Best Agency Online Service, and Best Practice in IT, as well as Best Recruitment Business Consultant of the Year.