Why is it companies will spend more time and effort on defining the decision criteria and the evaluation process associated with spending +$1 million of bottom line profit on a capital acquisition than they will in the acquisition of an executive responsible for driving +$1 million in bottom line profit (let alone the corresponding top line revenue)?

Sound paradoxical? So why does this happen?

Is it because companies believe executives aren't worth the effort? Hardly; you'd be hard pressed to find a CEO that doesn't think people are the key to their company's success.

Anyone can leverage the following Internet Presence Recipe for Success Case Study to build and drive a visible Internet presence.

I'm constantly amazed at the number of business professionals unaware of how straight forward it is to build a visible Internet presence. I recognize there may be business professionals who also don't care about this - whatever there reasons.

Some hiring authorities have had the good fortune of being trained in various interviewing skills. I know I have, both as an executive hiring authority and as an executive recruiter.

One of the most common interviewing techniques, behavioral interviewing, is designed around the premise of past behaviors being some sort of an indicator of future performance.