The Chad & Cheese Podcast
Everything Recruiting, Recruitment Marketing, Technology, Talent Management, and Workforce Economics wrapped in brash opinions and loads of snark. Industry veterans Chad Sowash & Joel Cheesman share their experience and opinion on a wide variety of topics and current news stories. Hiring companies, employers, and vendors tune in for insights from practitioners, vendors, startups, and these two knuckleheads.
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Shaker Shakes Things Up
The boys are back after a July 4th break and there’s a lot to cover. Shaker Recruitment Marketing makes an acquisition, Google embraces the Union Jack, voice assistants go commercial, CareerBuilder continues to burn and lots more. Enjoy, and give...
41 min
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Bleeding at CareerBuilder Continues
The bleeding over at CareerBuilder continues. Multiple sources are informing us that three more executives are gone. It’s a mix of terminations and just getting the hell off the Titanic.
2 min
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Firing Squad: AllyO
touts itself as an end-to-end solution for recruitment. But if you think it’s just another chatbot waiting to board the commoditization train, well, you might be right. Or wrong. You’ll have to listen to see if this start-up cuts the mustard...
34 min
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Interview: Groupon’s James Ellis
On a slow week that saw us celebrating America’s birthday, the boys are taking a break from the weekly rundown and chatting with Groupon’s head of global employment brand, . Chad cornered the poor guy at a recent conference and dug into a...
46 min
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The Shred: July 5 News — Google
The Chad & Cheese Podcast brings introduces THE SHRED — breaking Recruitment Industry News Topics Google for Jobs rumored to be launching soon in the UK The Arland Group ACQUIRED by Shaker Recruitment Marketing —...
4 min
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Down Goes Slack!
Chad’s back! And he’s probably sporting a beret this week as the boys are talkin’ LinkedIn’s foray into the SMB market, on-demand worker platforms boom and Slack going down (ensue internet meltdown). Your ears will thank you. Enjoy, and...
42 min
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Snagajob Rumors
This week, Google keeps googling, Juju (who? who?) pulls the ripcord and rumors are swirling around Snag.co (better known as Snagajob). And the funding keeps flowing. Enjoy and show our sponsors some love: America’s Job Exchange, Sovren and JobAdX.
26 min
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Interview: Anoop Gupta, SeekOut CEO
It’s not everyday you get to talk to someone who was a direct report to Bill Gates, but Chad & Cheese have done it. Meet Anoop Gupta, co-founder and CEO of and Microsoft veteran. This is a exclusive.
32 min
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Microsoft Buys GitHub
With Chad in Europe for the next 3 weeks, Cheese pulls a Lionel Richie and goes solo, talkin’ news and opinion on Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub. Who are the winner and losers? Additionally, Facebook and LinkedIn are in the news with new tools...
35 min
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Huh? Indeed Buys Resume.com
Indeed keeps building-up that moat against Google, but the latest acquisition of Resume.com has the boys shaking their heads. Plus Dice still has a pulse, Walmart is sending the blue vests to college and ZipRecruiter flexes. Enjoy, and show sponsors...
41 min
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Money, Money, Money … and Millennials
If you thought an upcoming holiday weekend would mean a slow week in the recruiting industry, then you’re gravely mistaken, kiddies. Chad & Cheese bring da noise and da funk on a episode featuring Phenom People, Vervoe, Job.com, Indeed, and...
47 min
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Firing Squad: HireVisor
Startup faces the firing squad. Will their warm-and-fuzzy, sharing-is-caring business model pass the test? Gotta listen to this exclusive if you want to find out.
31 min
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Interview w/ Colin Day, CEO at iCIMS – An Uncom...
, founder, chairman and CEO at popular ATS doesn’t pull any punches. He’s more than happy to give his honest opinion on everything from Indeed’s future to Google’s reign to ‘Freemium’ ATS providers. And Chad and Cheese are more...
43 min
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Uncommon.co Demo
The boys checkout ‘s product demo. And there’s beer too. Enjoy.
41 min
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Indeed Embraces Its Inner Glassdoor
Indeed had its annual event this week. News and opinion from the show highlight this week’s episode. Also, Google for Jobs referral traffic numbers are coming out, .jobs is .gone for Direct Employers Association and Starbucks is a real shit-show,...
45 min
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Firing Squad: Woo.io
Were the boys wooed by ? You’ll have to listen to find out on this exclusive.
33 min
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Glassdoor Gets Acquired
What started out as a pretty slow week certainly picked up by Hump Day. Glassdoor was acquired by Indeed’s parent company for $1.2 billion. The boys discuss the who, what and why. Monster has a new CEO and CareerBuilder goes down. Job boards are...
42 min
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Interview with Jobalign's CEO - A Nexxt Exclusive
If you’re hiring hourly workers today, you feel pain. Services like Jobalign are at the forefront of working to solve this problem. Chad and Cheese dive in to find out more. Enjoy this exclusive.
25 min
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Monster Goes Geico
On this week’s show, CareerBuilder and Monster have opposing strategies on job search, Monster’s new ads go “all Geico,” Stepstone buys Universum, Facebook is focused on @Work, Russians make an HR robot, brain sensors take over,...
43 min
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Interview: Tony Lee of SHRM – Uncommon.co Exclu...
An exclusive … the boys sit down with industry icon for a walk down Memory Lane, an update on what’s new at SHRM and even talk a little Cheap Trick. If you remember Cheezhead, OCC and when Monster had “The” and...
38 min
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CareerBuilder Says Sell! Sell! Sell!
The mergers and acquisitions market is heating up this week. Names like CareerBuilder, Adecco and PeopleFluent keep things interesting. Plus Google for Jobs gets busy internationally. Enjoy, and visit our sponsors: Sovren, America’s Job Exchange and...
42 min
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Interview with the CEOs of Talroo (Formerly Job...
Live from SHRM Talent in Las Vegas earlier this week, Chad & Cheese sit down with two of the most exciting companies around today, in two of the most talked about technologies. Thad Price, CEO of Talroo, formerly Jobs2Careers, talks rebranding and...
53 min
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Interview: PandoLogic & CandidateID
The boys are still working through hangovers from a week in Ireland, but our pain is your gain. We were able to land a handful of interviews at the Guinness brewery. For this week’s episode, we chat with Terry Baker from PandoLogic and Adam Gordon...
15 min
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Indeed Jail
Industry veteran Tim Sackett discusses the trials and tribulations of being sentenced to Indeed “jail.” You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll long for an alternative to Indeed. Enjoy.
13 min
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CareerBuilder is a Trainwreck
If you only listen to one episode of The Chad & Cheese Podcast, this one might be it. CareerBuilder is a mess right now, according to our sources. We’re talkin’ execs jumping ship, layoffs, angry sales people and a lot of bitter ‘Builders....
60 min