VRNI The process of presenting the business unit's IT personnel to its client companies is time consuming, due to the highly sensitive nature of the target positions, especially when the client companies are Fortune 500 firms.  However, the current economic environment has caused the IT consulting segment to be one of the few economic segments that appears to be benefiting from the uncertainty surrounding the implementation of the new health care legislation, as there is a growing upward trend in contract recruitment, in general, due to this uncertainty.