The Chad & Cheese Podcast

Everything people and workforce—recruiting, marketing, technology, talent management, and workforce economics—delivered with biting sarcasm and unapologetic snark. Industry misfits Chad Sowash and Joel Cheesman bring their no-holds-barred opinions to dissect news, trends, and the occasional dumpster fire. If you’re a hiring company, staffing firm, or vendor looking for insights (and a thick skin), these two won’t just tell you what’s happening—they’ll tell you why you’re probably doing it wrong. Buckle up, buttercup.

Business
Careers
Technology
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IPO Anyone? Checkr Raises $250M at $4.6B Valuation
3 min
777
Bro, Do You Even Transform?
What do you get when you mash up 4 podcasts into one? Lots of voices and even more opinions.
27 min
778
Firing Squad: Willo's Euan Cameron
Video recruiting is red hot right now. All the kids are doing it
35 min
779
Paradox Takes Pieces Off the Board
The recruiting industry behaves like a chess game sometimes.
49 min
780
Google Recruiting Accelerated
For the first time, Google has chosen a company from the recruitment tech space for their Start-up Business Accelerator Program.
3 min
781
European Tech: Remote Work
Europe continues to be a hotbed of trends revolving around remote work.
44 min
782
Paradox acquires...
Paradox, the conversational recruiting software announced today the acquisition of Traitify — the world’s fastest, mobile-first assessment platform.
2 min
783
iCIMS Files for IPO
3 min
784
Zoltar Speaks!
ACQUISITIONS -- FUNDING -- and mechanical fortune tellers? WTAF is going on during this week's show?
41 min
785
Burn, Build, Rinse & Repeat w/ JCK
When Indeed goes from $33-per to $300-per-applicant it's time to burn it down, build up something new, and then look to the future to rinse and repeat.
37 min
786
Social Media Background Checks w/ Bianca Lager
Social media is hotter than ever. Wait, don't jump off and checkout TikTok for pet videos and NBA highlights!
31 min
787
Zip-a-de Recruiter
Zip a-de-do-da, zip-a-de ZipRecruiter! Since going public in May, the No. 2 job site in the US has been on a tear.
42 min
788
European Business Brings it!
The Olympics are over, but Chad & Cheese’s quest for the European gold medal for podcasting is just beginning.
38 min
789
Clearlake Capital to Take Cornerstone OnDemand ...
3 min
790
Hiring Women Execs w/ Venesa Klein
Swapping spit. That's how Venesa Klein describes the never-ending shuffling going on in the C-suite these days, swapping one female executive with another one.
29 min
791
Indeed Sucks
This week, you get not one but two Indeed dipsy-doo, switcheroos.
40 min
792
Instawork 'Drafts'-Up New Acquisition
3 min
793
The End of Jobs w/ Jeff Wald
Like Harvard MBAs and Ivy League pedigrees? How about best-selling books written by industry entrepreneurs?
36 min
794
LinkedIn Crushes Monster
Remember when you thought Microsoft had lost their collective mind when they dropped $26.2 billion for LinkedIn?
41 min
795
EUROPE: M&A Royalty
Investment dollars are flowing into workforce tech globally, and Europe is no stranger to big deals.
46 min
796
Conversational AI Report
Call 'em chatbots, conversational AI, or fancy experience and productivity tools. It really doesn't matter if you don't understand the role of the tech and the solution to your everyday problems.
19 min
797
It's a Pando Smart Recruiters Cash Geyser
If you thought last week's show was a blockbuster, wait until you get a load of this week's episode. Here's a taste:
42 min
798
Boundless in Europe
Lieven has given up on Futbol everybody. Nevertheless, grab your Italian football jersey and enjoy a Guinness, 'cause this Euro show has your name written all over it.
49 min
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Unicorn Alert! SmartRecruiters Raises $110M
3 min
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Calling Bullshit w/ Jess Von Bank
Are you an imposter? A fraud? Is that feeling self-imposed? Is anything in the workplace that's really self-imposed? Is the term "Karen" just a mechanism to manipulate?
32 min