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.
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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.
46 min
1002
Ceridian Acquires Ideal
2 min
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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.
4 min
1004
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,
45 min
1005
Here's How One Fast Food Owner Combats Ghosting
3 min
1006
Jackye Clayton is Inclusive AF
We've made significant progress making our workplaces more equitable, diverse, and inclusive, right? Not so fast!
34 min
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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.
19 min
1008
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.
45 min
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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.
23 min
1010
Candidate.ID Lands Another Round of Investment
3 min
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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.
29 min
1012
Unicorns Everywhere!
Cha-ching! Just when you thought more money couldn't come into workforce tech, something else knocks your socks off. This week,
39 min
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Big Funding w/ Unicorn Status
Another player receives big funding and "Unicorn: status
2 min
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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.
38 min
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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.
31 min
1016
LinkedIn Da Club
The world is awakening from its pandemic-induced coma. What does that look like?
48 min
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Meet Indeed's New Smartypants CMO
3 min
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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.
27 min
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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.
30 min
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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
46 min
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Fundraising Galore: Visage, Fetcher, Lattice
3 min
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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.
38 min
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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...
26 min
1024
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.
46 min
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Robinhood (Yes, *That* Robinhood) Acquires Staf...
3 min