21.   A few search firms also provide such services.

22.   A search firm helped fill the newly created post, Blank added.

23.   A search firm in New York is working with the nine-member panel.

24.   A professional search firm can be more aggressive in contacting and pursuing artistic directors who are established at other companies, Mallette pointed out.

25.   A survey by Battalia Winston International, an executive search firm, found companies split on the issue.

26.   Advertise in minority publications, hire search firms that are inclusive and most importantly spread the word on some other grapevines so more people know it exists.

27.   Bruce Gerstman worked at a search engine firm with such rapid turnover that, after a year and a half there, he was viewed as an old-timer.

28.   But not everyone is convinced that search firms make for good public companies.

29.   But their quandary is gravy for executive search firms like Kelly.

30.   But trends suggest the odds are increasing, because the pool of women in the middle-to-high ranks of search firms is growing.