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: Starbucks’ Engagement, Labor Fears, Mad Men’s Favorite Word

John HollonNovember 5, 2010

I’ve written this before, but it bears repeating: employee engagement is one of the workplace issues that got hammered along with workers themselves during … Read more

Survey: 90% Feel Their Benefits are Important, But 36% Fear Losing Their Job

John HollonNovember 4, 2010

If there’s one good thing that’s come from all the turmoil and stress caused during the last few years of economic downturn, it’s this – people are much … Read more

What HR Executives Earn: Will This End the “Seat at the Table” Argument?

John HollonNovember 3, 2010

Here’s some interesting information to think about the next time you get into one of those arguments about whether or not HR has a seat at the table: … Read more

How Does the Family’s Opinion of the Job Impact Workplace Performance?

John HollonNovember 2, 2010

I bow to The Wall Street Journal’s expertise and insight as a daily business publication, but when it comes to covering workplace and HR issues, … Read more

Survey: 70% of Businesses Don’t Have a Strategy for Developing Women

John HollonOctober 27, 2010

Does your organization focus on women when they talk about having a more diverse workforce? Some do, of course, but the vast majority of businesses — … Read more

The NPR-Juan Williams Incident Shows Why HR Really Matters

John HollonOctober 26, 2010

I don’t want to keep beating on the Juan Williams-NPR firing fiasco, but there are a few loose ends to tie up before we move on. Loose End No. 1: NPR … Read more

Rush to Judgment: Where was HR When Juan Williams got Railroaded?

John HollonOctober 25, 2010

I’ve worked in a lot of places and supervised all sorts of different people. As most managers, I’ve had to fire people for performance-related … Read more

Weekly Wrap: Bad Bosses, Dissing Federal Workers, and 85,000 Applicants

John HollonOctober 22, 2010

Anytime you get into a listing of the “best of” or “the worst of,” you know that the list is going to be highly subjective, frequently shortsighted, and … Read more

Bad Behavior at Work: Even “Animal House” Eventually Got Shut Down

John HollonOctober 19, 2010

See two (2) updates below. Remember the movie Animal House? You know, the 1978 John Belushi film about a rogue fraternity that held wild parties and … Read more

A Few Things We Can All Learn From Being Trapped 69 Days Underground

John HollonOctober 18, 2010

I was moved as much as anyone by the feel good story of the 33 Chilean miners and their rescue after 69 days trapped (and thought to be possibly doomed) … Read more