The Chad & Cheese Podcast
Industry veterans Joel Cheesman and Chad Sowash are here to punch the recruiting industry right where it hurts, complete with breaking news, brash opinion, and loads of snark. Chad & Cheese discuss a wide variety of topics and current news stories around recruiting, human resources, and employment. Hiring companies, employers, and vendors tune in for insights from practitioners, vendors, startups, and more.
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LGBTQ+ for Dummies -- Part 3
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Beamery vs. Eightfold Cage Match
Cage match time! On this week's podcast, Eightfold AI and Beamery play dueling valuations, following some massive funding rounds. King Kong vs. Godzilla ain't got nothin' on our industry.
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Beamery Me Up, Scotty!
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Chad & Cheese Does Europe
Some podcasters do it for the fun. Chad & Cheese? Global domination.
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LGBTQ+ for Dummies -- Part 2
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Take This Job and Shove It
A 1970s' Johnny Paycheck song is recapturing the feeling of today's job market.
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Eightfold AI Breaks Bank with Latest Funding Round
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Prince of Programmatic
On this episode, we dive into programmatic and all things UK with our good buddy Rob Prince, VP of sales at TalentNexus.
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LGBTQ+ for Dummies -- Part 1
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Guess who's coming to Europe?
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Stack the Steal
It's a Stack-quisition... Wait, that sounds familiar! Stack the Steal! Yeah, that's it...
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Snark Attack w/ Matt Charney
Time to turn the snark up to eleven, people.
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ZipRecruiter Trash Talk
ZipRecruiter? More Like Dip-Recruiter... Am I right? The boys both turn 50-years-old this week, which means a lot of mature, grown-up, and responsible commentary on the world of work. HA!
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Here Comes $ZIP
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Panic, Truth, & Fire w/ Allyn Bailey
Allyn Bailey first joined us on a stage in Canada at The Gathering as Intel's Talent Acquisition Transformation Manager. She blew us away and we all wanted more :)
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Mya, Wade & Wendy Ménage à Trois
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PandoLogic Acquires Wade & Wendy
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Reevaluate Your DEI w/ Star Carter
Think your company has an inclusive work culture? Might be time to reevaluate.
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The Mysterious Acquisition of Mya
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Handshake's Ultimate Hand Job
It's an episode full of head-scratchers and high fivers.
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OutMatch acquires....
Outmatch is on the hunt, since last September Outmatch has acquired Launchpad, FirstPerson, Checkster, and now......
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Firing Squad: JobDescription.ai's Oras Al-Kubaisi
Job descriptions used to be so easy. Five lines in the local newspaper and done. Then the Internet came along and gave us unlimited white space, leading to a serious lack of quality ever since.
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Indeed Gonna Indeed
Indeed just can't stop tripping
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Upwork Remains Hot, Launches New Category
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Vaccines, Wages, and Hybrid Work
Vaccines, Wages, and Hybrid Work
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Wage Wars w/ Suresh Naidu
Remember Suresh Naidu, the professor of economics and international and public affairs at Columbia University?
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Jobvite Lights The Fuse
Chad is back from vacay, and it's a good thing because the news was droppin' like bombs this week.
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Ceridian Acquires Ideal
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Jobvite Acquires JazzHR, NXTThing RPO, New CEO ...
The Shred is a bite-sized bit of recruitment news to help make sure you’re in-the-know, even if you’re on-the-go. The Shred is brought to you by Recruitology.
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BrassRing Acquired, LinkedIn vs. Degreed, Rippl...
How's that saying go? Empires don't die with a bang, they go out with a whimper. Or something like that. If you're thinking the acquisition of Brassring,
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Here's How One Fast Food Owner Combats Ghosting
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Jackye Clayton is Inclusive AF
We've made significant progress making our workplaces more equitable, diverse, and inclusive, right? Not so fast!
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Get Your Laugh On!
Who needs a laugh? 2021, right!!?!?! That's exactly why The Chad & Cheese invited the folks at Watercooler Comedy to come on the show.
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Fear, Loathing, and ZipRecruiter
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy added 233K jobs in January, 468K in February, and 916K in March. So, everyone who got a pink slip last year should be rejoicing and fully employed, right? Think again.
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ATS Report 2021
Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), love 'em or hate 'em they're the core technology of life as a Talent Acquisition and Recruiting professional.
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Candidate.ID Lands Another Round of Investment
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Firing Squad: Wedge HR's Matt Baxter
Video interviewing. You've probably heard it's sort of a thing since the pandemic. We're talkin' mass acquisitions here.
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Unicorns Everywhere!
Cha-ching! Just when you thought more money couldn't come into workforce tech, something else knocks your socks off. This week,
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Big Funding w/ Unicorn Status
Another player receives big funding and "Unicorn: status
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Top Talent Myth w/ Frida Polli
Frida Polli joins the boys on a quest for a better understanding of personality tests, matching of soft skills to job openings, and the threats that A.I. backlash has on businesses like hers.
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Sprint Recruiting w/ Trent Cotton
Ever heard the concepts behind sprint recruiting? Well, we've got the guy who wrote the book on the topic, super-recruiter Trent Cotton.
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LinkedIn Da Club
The world is awakening from its pandemic-induced coma. What does that look like?
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Meet Indeed's New Smartypants CMO
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Redefining HR w/ Lars Schmidt
Hot off the presses of his latest book, the boys dig into everything swimming around in Lars head at the moment.
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What's Your COVID Brand?
Just when you thought you had that whole employer brand game figured out, along comes a pandemic and tosses that EB playbook right out the window.
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LinkedIn We Have A Problem
There’s bad, there’s rotten and then there’s LinkedIn’s job board strategy. It’s like peeling an onion and the boys are almost in tears covering this story
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Fundraising Galore: Visage, Fetcher, Lattice
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Rick Rolled w/ Rick Carsley
Listeners will remember a red-hot interview Chad & Cheese did in 2020 with IKEA's Rick Carsley, and luckily for everyone, he's back on the podcast.
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Firing Squad: SponTea Coffee's Viktoria Sheyko
COVID has made online video incredibly popular in the workplace, but it's also made human connections harder to come by. And engaging with new people at work is almost impossible. Until...
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LinkedIn Job Boards Like It's 1999
Stick around in this industry long enough and you may see something like a mobile stock trading app called Robinhood acquire a staffing firm. Yeah, that really happened.
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Robinhood (Yes, *That* Robinhood) Acquires Staf...
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The State of Programmatic Job Ads
Performance-based ads have become a highly-adopted and powerful tool for Marketing departments throughout the world, and yet it hasn't in Recruitment Marketing. So, what is the state of programmatic job advertising in the recruitment world?
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Shakin' It Up w/ John Graham
For the most part, Corporate America sucks at Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Wait, you don't believe me? Look at the numbers for this nearly 60-year-old practice. In most organizations, today money is thrown at training, messaging, and an inability to match one's brand articulation with reality.
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Seekout, Jobandtalent Open The Vault
Mad investment dollars going into TA tech startups, international intrigue, recruiting robots in your pocket.
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Seekout Announces $65 Million Series B
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Can't Touch This w/ Albrey Brown
Straight outta Oaktown, the boys invite head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Airtable, Albrey Brown, on the show and chat diversity recruiting, what a typical day in the life of a DE&I director looks like and even find time for MC Hammer jokes.
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Facebook Jobs Invasion
It's a lactose-free episode of The Chad & Cheese podcast with special guest, Canadian podcast superstar, Shelley Billinghurst of The Recruitment Flex.
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Move Fast. Break Shit. Burn Out.
Aside from being a summary of one of our podcasts, it's also a #1 Amazon Best Seller and one of nine books Entrepreneur Magazine says you have to read this year.
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Coming Clean w/ Arran Stewart
Job.com founder Arran Stewart has been busy making acquisitions - or at least promising acquisitions - since his company appeared on Death Match in Austin a few years ago.
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Recruitics Embraces The Stranger
This one's a real rush of blood to the head! Recruitics and Phenom are continuing the acquisition boom in our industry LinkedIn is looking to take on Fiverr and Upwork.
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Phenom Acquires Talentcube
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ATS Feature Hell w/ Lital Sherman
Maintaining a platform with decades of unused features, or multiple features providing the same end to a means, or a pile of feature dropdowns leading to a totally unusable system is leading indicators you possibly reside in "Feature Hell".
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Radio: Crap Rap by Caroo
HR and TA keep pumping out the hits!
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Moped Money w/ Torin Ellis
It's part 2 of our interview with Torin Ellis, DEI consultant, risk mitigator, and truth teller!
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Indeed's FUBAR UX
"Indeed gives zero fucks about employers!!!"
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Google Caves to Pressure from Down Under
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Entelo CRO Ejects
Did you really expect the wheels to stay on for long?
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Firing Squad: Caroo's Gareth Peterson
UK-based and focused Caroo has tickled the industry's funny bone recently. With a series of marketing strategies that have pushed the boundaries of good taste
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Exorcising Our Demons
If you can't handle truth tellin' this interview with Torin Ellis might be too much for you, although it is something we all need. Sit back, listen, tweet, and do whatever it takes to unload as we all disagree, yet try to find our way back to common ground.
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Paychex Squeezes Recruiting
With Valentine's Day going down this week, love is in the air and so is Barry White...
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To Check or Not To Check?
In this episode, the boys join Kim Jones, professor at UC Davis, and dig into the seedy underbelly of the business of background checks
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Paradox Adds Video to Chatbot
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Google Jobs Antitrust
Adzuna CEO and Founder Doug Monro have a thing or two to say about Google's anti-competitive practices, particularly around job search.
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Indeed Gets Penalized
Super Bowl ads in our industry are back with Indeed's decision to drop $10 million-plus on an ad in the Big Game.
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Job.com Acquires Talenting
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Tech: A Force for Good DEI
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are on the lips of Talent Acquisition professionals all over the world.
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Indeed.com Announces Super Bowl Ad
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Workday Goes Shopping
Take a break from counting your Gamestop millions! Lots happened this week in the world of recruiting.
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Bayard Gets Bought
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Recruiting Trends: A New Frontier
Jobvite's yearly recruiter survey is always a highlight, and this year is no different. From Social media to video recruiting to job board investment to all things pandemic, this year's is no different.
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World Premiere Single - Hourly
Hourly by Tripp & Tryler featuring Montell Jordan
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TMP Worldwide is Randancy?
TMP changes their name to Radiancy, no Radancy... Yea Radancy, that's gonna take a minute to get used to...
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Personio Rides the Dinosaur
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Firing Squad: BrightHire's Teddy Chestnut
While the world of recruiting is running toward a future of automation and a process devoid of human beings, others are championing a hybrid approach: Part human, part machine.
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Unicorn Status
Bolstered by an additional $125 million of Series D funding, and a company valuation reaching $1.7 billion
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Greenhouse Green
Hallelujah podcasts can't be impeached! Because Chad & Cheese are always dancing on the line of what's legal in at least 17 states, and this week is no exception.
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Greenhouse Lands $500M Investment
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CareerGig Acquires Moonlighting
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Tiger Boss
The Chad & Cheese welcome author, entrepreneur, filmmaker, tech philosopher, and Death Metal singer Somi Arian to the show. Did someone say Death Metal?
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Paradox Learns How to Spetz
What a year so far, huh? The world needs a new beacon of hope, and Chad & Cheese are here to fill the void.
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Can A.I. Fix Hiring in 2021?
It's finally 2021, Can Artificial Intelligence finally takeover hiring?
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Paradox Gobbles-Up Israeli-Based Chatbot Startup
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2021 Predictions
It's the return of Sackadamus! Industry icon Tim Sackett joins Chad & Cheese for their 4th annual predictions show with an eye toward 2021. Thank baby Jesus 2020 is almost over!
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2020 Naughty & Nice List
Ya' better watch out. Ya' better not cry. Better not pout ... 'cause this is the naughty and nice edition of The Chad & Cheese Podcast.
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Three Acquisitions and an Integration
Buy! Buy! Buy! The money just keeps flowing into the employment industry this holiday season, as Talent Inc. - the folks behind ResumeRabbit, Top Resume, and others - has sold for a reported $100 million. Yowza! Plus...
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What Pandemic? ZipRecruiter Eyes IPO
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Firing Squad: Sourcr's Chris Almond
Review sites are hot, and valuable. Just ask Glassdoor, who sold for over a billion dollars last year. But do reviews translate to staffing agencies and recruiters?
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iCIMS Chalks-Up Another Acquisition
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Mystery Acquisition
Ever been stood up on a date? Yeah, we know the feeling after being stood up by our TOP STORY this week, although we're making lemons into lemonade and point you toward an acquisition. Shhhh, don't tell anyone.
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Indeed's Got Some New Competition
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