John Hollon
John Hollon is managing editor at Fuel50, an AI Opportunity Marketplace solution that delivers internal talent mobility and workforce reskilling. You can download the research reports in their Global Talent Mobility Best Practice Research series at Fuel50.
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“Declined Offer” Interviews? Don’t Expect Much From Someone Rejecting a Job
In a workplace world where we conduct job interviews, exit interviews, and sometimes even “stay” interviews, it’s not surprising that there’s been a push for “declined offer” interviews. Yes, somebody thinks it… Read more
The Holy Grail of Hiring: Finding the Formula For Landing the Very Best Talent
It’s the Holy Grail of hiring: Finding the magic formula that will help you land the very best talent. Everybody has a different take on how to do it, of course,… Read more
Why Put Candidates Through Hoops, Then Just Say “Thank You For Your Interest”?
I’m one of the members — one out of 1,000,479, to be exact — of LinkedIn’s Premium Career Group. I recently saw a question/comment with the headline Thank you for… Read more
Are You Surprised? 75% of HR Managers Have Found Lies on Resumes
It’s not a surprise that job candidates embellish, fib, or resort to outright lies on resumes. What IS a bit shocking is how frequently they do it. According to the… Read more
No Surprise: Half of U.S. Workers Feel They Just Have a Job, Not a Career
This shouldn’t come as a big surprise: A lot of Americans workers aren’t all that happy on the job, and according to a new survey, more than half of them… Read more
A Modern Day Snipe Hunt: Today’s Insane Push to Hire a “Purple Squirrel”
There’s a good reason why no one ever finds that elusive “purple squirrel” when they’re recruiting for a job. It’s because 999 times out of a thousand, they don’t exist…. Read more
Another Year of Crappy Raises. Should It Matter to Recruiters?
Every summer for nine years, I have written a blog post that nobody really wants to read. That’s because it always seems to give the same bad news — that… Read more
Bad Press Can Kill a Company’s Reputation – AND Its Recruiting
Given all the recent chatter about Google after an engineer got fired for writing a diversity manifesto, it makes you wonder — what does a polarizing event like that do… Read more
Insights on a Candidate-Driven Market
UNLESS you’ve been doing the Rip Van Winkle act for the last 10 years, you know that finding a job has changed in a many ways both big and small…. Read more
Fixing the Candidate Experience: It Will Take More Humans, Less Automation
Everybody knows that automation has dramatically changed how people get hired. In fact, automation is the very reason why job boards exist. It’s also why they can be so challenging… Read more
The Most Powerful Interview Question You Can Ever Ask
If you do a Google search on “interview questions,” you’ll get over 45 million links to all manner of advice on what you should be asking job candidates. Glassdoor will… Read more
Most Workers Don’t Fear Losing Their Job to Workplace Automation
It’s an ongoing mantra that supposedly has a lot of people spooked — automation is growing rapidly and is eventually going to eliminate a lot of jobs. Well, a new… Read more
It’s About Time: Recruiters Are Screening Candidates With Text Interviews
Here’s a trend I can get behind — Using text messaging for early-stage interviews with job candidates. The Wall Street Journal recently reported on this new trend recenty, and it made me… Read more
The Best Around: John Hollon is My Hero. He’s Also Our New Editor.
Today, RecruitingDaily has officially announced that John Hollon has been appointed Editor of RecruitingDaily.com. Of course, if you pay any attention whatsoever to this publication, you probably figured that… Read more
Yes, Your Candidate Experience Is Probably Worse Than You Think
The first sentence in the CareerBuilder press release about their latest survey says it all: “Your candidate experience is probably worse than you think.” I wouldn’t call myself an expert on… Read more
