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.
Content authored by John Hollon
If You’re Not Hiring for Skills, You Probably Aren’t Keeping Up With the New World of Work
For as long as I can remember, the most important thing for recruiters and hiring managers was just this one thing: your job title. If you were applying for a… Read more
What Do Job Candidates Want?
It’s a question that seems pretty simple, but for some reason, people keep asking it: what do job candidates want? If you said, “A new job and a hiring process… Read more
Better Employee Retention in 2022
As 2022 begins, it’s clear that a lot of workplace trends, like employee recruiting and retention, have began popping up last fall will take hold and grow into a bigger… Read more
What Industries Had the Highest Turnover Last Year? This Is What LinkedIn Says
If you’re looking for timely turnover and hiring trends, it helps if you have a half billion users interested in turnover and hiring to draw your insights from. So it… Read more
10 Candidate Mistakes That Instantly Destroy Their Job Chances
Every hiring manager and HR professional has seen this, and they know it to be true. It’s this: Some job candidates do things that simply destroy all chance of you… Read more
Culture Fit: It’s THE Critical Quality Hiring Pros Should Be Looking For
When it comes to hiring, there are lots of qualities that recruiters and hiring managers look for, but in my experience, there’s really just one that’s a real game changer…. Read more
What Companies With a Great Candidate Experience Do That Others Don’t
The longer I write about recruiting and hiring, the more I believe that the candidate experience needs to be at the heart of how every organization recruits and hires people…. Read more
Study Finds That a Bad Onboarding Experience May Disengage New Hires
I know this from personal experience: All the hard work recruiters do to land great talent can get washed away if the new employee has a bad onboarding experience when… Read more
A Recruiting Lose-Lose: When You Can’t Put Your Bias and Prejudices Aside
Here’s a question for every recruiter and Talent Acquisition professional: Do you ever step back and consider what prejudices and bias you bring to your job as a hiring professional?… Read more
Employers Want to Hire 44% More Workers in 2018 — IF They Can Really Find Them
A New Year brings new recruitment and employment surveys, and the first one of the year brings information that you probably won’t be all that surprised by. According to CareerBuilder’s… Read more
Text Recruiting Gets Another Big Boost as iCIMS Acquires TextRecruit
The growing trend of text recruiting took another big step this week. TextRecruit, which describes itself as “a candidate engagement platform that uses text message, live chat, and artificial intelligence… Read more
Happy New Year, But Beware People Bearing Silly Recruiting Resolutions
Here’s a New Year’s wish for recruiters and talent acquisition professionals everywhere: Do whatever you can to stay away from bad advice that doesn’t help you be better in 2018…. Read more
The Adversity Question, or Why You Need to Have a Strong Hiring Philosophy
Recruiters and TA professionals know this for a fact: There’s no magical formula to hiring. If there was, hiring would be easy, but instead we spend a lot of time… Read more
Do You Recruit For People Who Know Exactly What NOT to Do?
Here’s something to think about when you’re recruiting and hiring: Is it possible that the very best person to hire is the one who knows what not to do? I’ve… Read more
A Little Holiday Cheer For Recruiters Everywhere — Courtesy of LinkedIn Talent Solutions
Everyone, everywhere needs a little holiday cheer. Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, the last two weeks of the year are a season for everyone to reflect on all that… Read more