THE FAST SWITCH HIRING INDEX ("FSHI") The FSHI is an index designed to measure, on a quantitative basis, the inclination of companies in the measured markets to hire full time, IT professionals. The index uses the number of online job advertisements from a proprietary selection of job posting web sites, as well as large corporate web sites, and takes into account a number of proprietary factors to provide a strong correlation to the change in the intent of employers in the measured markets to hire new IT employees. Fast Switch used the week of December 7-11, 2009 as the index’s base week with a numerical index value of 1,000 for the Columbus, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan markets. Fast Switch used the week of January 18-22, 2010 as the index’s base week with a numerical index value of 1,000 for the Cincinnati, Ohio market. INDEX FOR THE WEEK OF COLUMBUS DETROIT CINCINNATI March 1-5, 2010 1,251 1,696 1,322 February 22-26, 2010 1,250 1,450 1,342 February 15-19, 2010 1,191 1,359 1,317 February 8-12, 2010 1,144 1,316 1,302 February 1-5, 2010 1,101 1,324 1,302 January 25-29, 2010 979 1,134 1,124 January 18-22, 2010 937 1,040 January 11-15, 2010 911 1,006 January 4-8, 2010 908 946 December 28, 2009 - January 1, 2010 997 1,039 December 21-25, 2009 1,013 1,064 December 14-18, 2009 1,032 1,063 Complete the form above to subscribe to the Fast Switch Hiring Index mailing list.