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: Bad Survey for Boss Day, Starbucks Lines, and Just Say No

John HollonOctober 15, 2010

Well, today is that day that I know you and your staff has been anxiously waiting for – National Boss Day. I will celebrate by not ranting about the idiocy … Read more

How Do You Handle a Company With HR-Challenged Senior Management?

John HollonOctober 12, 2010

* See five (5) updates below, including Abrams’ resignation. What do you say when a senior executive of your company – the chief innovation officer, … Read more

Survey: Pay Freezes Slowly Thawing, but 2011 Raises are Going to be Modest

John HollonOctober 12, 2010

Here’s a bit of good news (emphasis on “bit”) that workplace trends are slowly (emphasis on “slowly”) starting to stabilize. According to a new survey by … Read more

National Boss Day? Is That Why 70% of Workers Don’t Want to be a Boss?

John HollonOctober 12, 2010

I’m all for the notion of better employee-boss relations, and by extension, that means that I’m also in favor of a new study released this week by Adecco … Read more

Weekly Wrap: Managing Monkeys, Business Cards Thrive, and a Classic Cover Letter

John HollonOctober 8, 2010

Sometimes it’s good to take the Weekly Wrap on the road, as I did last week from the HR Technology conference in Chicago. As you might gather from my … Read more

The Unpaid Internship Dilemma: Everyone Loses in This Crackdown

John HollonOctober 6, 2010

By John Hollon Pardon me while I shed a few tears for the end of college internships as we have known them. The recent post here on TLNT by labor attorney … Read more

It’s Always Sunny for Female Executives in Philadelphia

John HollonOctober 5, 2010

By John Hollon Who would have thought that Philadelphia would be the one place in America where female executives would get a fair shake? Or as … Read more

Ask the HR Pro: Should I Use Gimmick Questions in Job Interviews?

John HollonSeptember 29, 2010

Want to know how other managers and HR Pros would deal with a sticky workplace issue? Well, this is an ongoing feature where we take a workplace or … Read more

Benefits Expo Day 2: Waking up to Tough Talk on Health Care Reform

John HollonSeptember 28, 2010

There’s nothing quite like kicking off a morning in a room with 500 other yawning people who haven’t had quite enough coffee listening to a … Read more

Plugging Into the 10 Commandments of Benefit Communications

John HollonSeptember 27, 2010

You know the fall is here and that it’s back to business when you attend your first conference of the season. For me, that conference is the 23rd … Read more