With the ever-increasing need for companies to be competitive in this dynamic marketplace, pressure on both large and small company's IT staff has increased dramatically. The demand for specialized consultants for particular projects has created the need for software consulting companies to provide staff augmentation services. With IT jobs growing at a rate of 17% per year the need for IT professionals is expected to grow by over 30,000 positions by the year 2006, it seems that the void of available IT professionals will not go away any time soon. We believe that for a software consulting company to be successful in this business they have to remember one thing:

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There are many reasons for this mismatch to happen. First, in today's market it is not easy to find the right person for the right job at the right time and many people are motivated by greed. Second, people who are responsible for matching the right person to the right job are not IT professionals by trade. Professional IT personal have told us stories where a "used car sales person" is making the decisions on their technical qualifications and the value they can bring to a project. These non-IT professionals are the same people listening to a company describe a strategic project and the technical characteristics of the people they need to help make them successful.

• At Performix the person who is listening to the IT professional and evaluating his or hers skill set, is an IT professional themselves.

• At Performix the person who is working with managers from various companies who have projects that need staff augmentation, is an IT professional.

• At Performix the person who is matching the right person to the right job at the right time is motivated by ensuring that the contractor and the Twin Cities area based company will make Performix their consulting company of choice.