She is based in Brooklyn, where she recruits financial-services executives.

And Wall Street adds to the demand by recruiting executives from among finance professors.

As the bank grew, it became more difficult to recruit qualified executives to a town of 19,000 people.

The firm, which specializes in recruiting top executives, said the deluge was about three times the rate received a year earlier.

He helped to recruit several senior executives at large corporations to serve on the league's board.

Indian newspaper accounts quoted recruiting executives as saying they made fees of $300 to $800 per recruit.

In addition, he would apparently be credited with 30 years of service toward a pension, a not uncommon practice in recruiting senior executives.

American financial service companies have been more successful than manufacturing and industrial companies in recruiting Japanese executives.

That's why struggling companies often recruit proven chief executives from the outside, rather than promote a second-in-command.

The rejection highlights a problem for corporations and institutions in the city that want to recruit executives.