John Hollon

John Hollon is an award-winning journalist and nationally recognized expert on leadership, talent management, and smart workforce practices. He most recently worked as managing editor at Fuel50, an AI talent marketplace technology company. Before that, John worked as editor of TLNT, the popular talent management website he founded and edited for six years, was editor of RecruitingDaily.com, and before that, editor-in-chief of Workforce Management magazine and workforce.com.

Weekly Wrap: If You Have to be Laid Off, It Helps If You Worked at Boeing

John HollonAugust 2, 2013

Nobody in their right mind wants to be laid off, especially now that unemployment benefits that were expanded due to the Great Recession are returning to … Read more

Weekly Wrap: Is This the New Way to Give a Performance Review?

John HollonJuly 26, 2013

I have never, ever been a big fan of performance reviews. Well, maybe that’s not entirely accurate. What I meant to say is that I pretty much hate … Read more

New Study Finds That HR’s C-Suite Influence is Increasing — a Lot

John HollonJuly 24, 2013

Every once in a while, I get a survey that serves up so much information that it becomes really difficult to simply characterize it in an article or blog … Read more

Is There a Big Shortage of American Engineers? A New Study Says No

John HollonJuly 23, 2013

The drumbeat has been loud and long, and it always comes down to the same issue: we have a huge shortage of engineering and other skilled talent here in … Read more

Weekly Wrap: Employees Rank Top 25 Companies for Work-Life Balance

John HollonJuly 19, 2013

Glassdoor, the website that encourages employees to give the inside scoop on their companies, has an interesting new survey out on the Top 25 Companies for … Read more

New Survey Highlights the Hardest Jobs to Fill in 2013

John HollonJuly 18, 2013

One of the paradoxes of the current economic recovery is this: despite a national employment rate at 7.6 percent and nearly 12 million Americans out of … Read more

Weekly Wrap: Are We Wasting Our Time on Employee Engagement?

John HollonJuly 12, 2013

Loyal readers of TLNT know that we have a lot of content surrounding the concept of employee engagement because, well, no one seems to have a really good … Read more

New Year, Old Message: 2014 Salary Increases Will Be Around 3% — Again

John HollonJuly 11, 2013

Waiting for that big raise to finally come through now that the economy seems to be slowly, gradually improving? Well, you might need to bit a little … Read more

Weekly Wrap: Despite Employee Optimism, It’s Still a Buyer’s Market For Talent

John HollonJuly 5, 2013

Sometimes people tell me I’m just too negative for constantly referring to the post recession economic recovery as “mediocre.” I know; … Read more

Employer Mandate to Provide Health Care Postponed Until 2015

John HollonJuly 2, 2013

Employers that were worried about how they would be able to handle the implementation of health care reform starting in January have one less thing to … Read more