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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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
827
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
828
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
829
Unicorn Alert! SmartRecruiters Raises $110M
3 min
830
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
831
Google, Tiktok, LinkedIn & more?
50 min
832
DOUBLE ACQUISITION
On to the NEWS: Two acquisitions
3 min
833
Google for Jobs UPDATE
4 min
834
MERGER!
4 min
835
For Sale: 600M LinkedIn Profiles on Hacker Forum
3 min
836
Employer Brand Euro Remix
The pandemic has royally remixed employment branding for a lot of companies.
23 min
837
Indeed Mimics Monster
Who goes camping in the hot sticky mess of July? Joel Cheesman, that's who. No worries, we have a smooth operator filing in for the Master of Cheese this week.
46 min
838
Firing Squad: PredictiveHire's Barb Hyman
A new chatbot... Errrrrr.... "conversational AI: contender is coming to America and the rest of the world soon. They're called Predictive Hire and they have an army of PhDs that says their tech is better than yours.
30 min
839
Big Data Payday
We wish there was a way to automate these ridiculous podcast episode descriptions, but until then, we'll have to be content with talking about recruitment automation.
36 min
840
EUROPE: Adevinta Smacks Axel Springer!
The European market is poppin' hotter than a dinner date between Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin.
44 min
841
LGBTQ+ for Dummies -- BONUS
Welcome to LGBTQ+ for Dummies -- BONUS EDITION -- HR and Talent Acquisition pros won't want to miss this listener question!
9 min
842
LGBTQ+ for Dummies -- Part 4
4 min
843
TECH WARS: Amazon vs. Walmart
This week has a little bit of everything. First, it's a heavyweight fight between Amazon and Walmart for which one's a soulless pit of human misery and which one is an employee-friendly innovator.
45 min
844
ZipRecruiter Receives Some Wall Street Lovin'
3 min
845
Firing Squad: Canvas' Ben Herman
The new Canvas (no relation) is all about creating a diversity recruitment platform to reignite the employment landscape and bring DEI to the masses.
31 min
846
LGBTQ+ for Dummies -- Part 3
4 min
847
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.
46 min
848
Beamery Me Up, Scotty!
3 min
849
Chad & Cheese Does Europe
Some podcasters do it for the fun. Chad & Cheese? Global domination.
41 min
850
LGBTQ+ for Dummies -- Part 2
4 min