One of the biggest challenges facing firms today will be to reduce and control already inflated budgets incurred while resolving the Y2K issue. With the Year 2000 dilemma nearing a close, companies now need to take a serious look at ways in which to streamline future spending and be able to utilize highly skilled professionals that are aware of current technologies in order to remain competitive in the area of their business. The ParaApprentice^™ program was developed to help companies to achieve this objective.

ParaApprentice^™: The Onshore Apprenticeship Program

Through Parallel^®'s association with one of the major IT business schools in New York, we now offer ParaApprentice^™ a unique, innovative "Right to Hire" program that allows clients to undertake projects in:

1. Application Development
   
2. Conversion
   
3. Testing
   
4. Web Enabling
   
5. Legacy Rejuvenation

At a cost normally associated with Offshore Development.

ParaApprentice^™ is a controlled educational join venture between PTC and some of the top technical schools in the area, to train professional developers to increase their knowledge base and help them to qualify for a wider range of positions.

We utilize highly skilled technicians typically with 8-10 years experience in our own controlled technical environment and apply rigorous project and technical management disciplines. In doing so, we are able to provide high quality skilled teams that can take charge of a project. All this, for a fraction of the cost of using conventional consulting companies.

ParaApprentice^™ is a "Right to Hire" program as well as a Certified Continuing Education Work-Study that seeks to promote IT development in the U.S. by utilizing the wealth of skilled IT professionals that have recently moved to the U.S. This program serves as an effective service for companies that need skills, but do not initially want to commit to hiring.

At Parallel^®, we are committed to promote development, and continue to improve our processes and quality of work through review and feedback cycles where experience gained on current projects feed into future projects.