7-2 Search Corp. (SC) provides executive search services to a variety of clients on a fee-for-service basis. A team of two human resource professionals is assigned to each client for each position SC is hired to fill. The professionals meet with the clients to establish what particular skills, abilities, and characteristics the ideal candidate should have; supervise meetings of the client's internal search team; advertise broadly; identify a list of potential candidates; contact a variety of associates across the country to expand this list, receive applications and dossiers;, help the client develop a short list, and oversee the interview and selection process. The human resource professionals are backed up by administrative assistants who work on 10 to 15 different client files at the same time, and by an executive team who provide strategic direction, and marketing, information systems, finance, and accounting capability to SC's operations. SC rents five floors of a major commercial building in a prime downtown location