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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1401
Digging Into Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work
Like the Oscars, Emmys or Razzies, employers around the world await Glassdoors Best Places to Work with great anticipation. Us, not so much, but well discuss it anyway. Well also dig into Googles candidate discovery coming out of beta, LinkedIns salary c
40 min
1402
Interview: Peter Weddle, Author of ‘Circa 2118’
On this Nexxt exclusive podcast, the boys interview industry icon Peter Weddle about his latest book, Circa 2118. It’s a must-read for anyone in the recruiting industry, where robotics, automation and AI are set to change things dramatically over t
38 min
1403
Straight Outta Beta: Hire by Google Takes the T...
Now, Candidate Discovery is available for everyone. Hire by Google has been beta-testing the new feature since March 2018. Enjoy, and visit Shred sponsor Judge.com today.
2 min
1404
Checking In With Vervoe
Vervoe was the first-ever sucker to agree to come on Firing Squad, so weve always had a soft spot for them. We also dont speak Australian, so demos work really well for us. If your keeping score at home, the company is growing, raising money and even hir
32 min
1405
LinkedIn Lands on Naughty List
The holidays are upon us. LinkedIn is on the naughty list. Indeed is getting crossed-off a lot of wish lists. And your employees want to party all the time, Eddie Murphy-style. Enjoy and be sure to leave sponsors JobAdX, Sovren and Canvas milk-and-cookie
43 min
1406
The Chatbot Episode
Chatbots have been all the rage in 2018. Theyre everywhere, and read like an all-girl pop band. Mya, Olivia, AllyO and others are bringing automation to communication throughout the recruiting process. To make sense of it all, Chad & Cheese bring Qu
32 min
1407
E&Y Wins, Then Hangs
Its The Shred - a mini-Chad and Cheese bite of Breaking News -- This is Chad Sowash The Shred is brought to you by The Judge Group... The Judge Group A leader in technology and healthcare staffing providing top talent to organizations ranging from the F
3 min
1408
LinkedIn Launches Snapchat Wannabe
Thanksgiving is over, and business is business, so the boys are back in the saddle and breaking down the recruiting industry’s hottest news, including LinkedIn shutting down downloads and taking on Snapchat, Amazon tiptoeing into the job board game
53 min
1409
Workable & Wonolo GET PAID!
Its The Shred - a mini-Chad and Cheese bite of Breaking News -- This is Chad Sowash The Shred is brought to you by The Judge Group... The Judge Group A leader in technology and healthcare staffing providing top talent to organizations ranging from the Fo
5 min
1410
Uncommon’s New Sourcing Feature
You know Uncommon for its programmatic recruitment advertising. But did you know they now provide an automated sourcing tool that helps employers access 150 million candidates … right now? Get your active and passive candidates in balance today by
40 min
1411
Trump’s Job Board Fetish
Trump and job boards finally made the podcast as one story. Rejoice and all hail the podcast gods. What else is in this week’s show? Indeed hates your talent network, Google likes it on top and LinkedIn is putting another $2 billion in the kitty th
44 min
1412
Firing Squad: Jobiak
Jobiak promises to take job postings and put them on Google for Jobs, SEO ’em and throw-in a good helping of AI. Can they survive the firing squad? Gotta listen to this Talroo exclusive to find out.
33 min
1413
ZipRecruiter Adds Badasses to Board of Directors
It’s The Shred for November 13, 2018, brought to you by Judge.com. Guys, blockchain is all the rage right now. And if you’re like most of us, the whole thing is confusing, right? Don’t worry. Chad and I have been working with Judge to give you the f
3 min
1414
HiringSolved Dumped HOW MANY Candidate Profiles...
Live from New York, the boys recorded the weekly show at HireConf, HiringSolved’s conference. In addition to covering news from Monster, Dice, Glassdoor and Under Armour, there’s a riveting interview with HiringSolved co-founder and CEO Shon
43 min
1415
TextRecruit, Acquisitions, and BadAssery
At the iCIMS analyst day last month, the boys sat down with Erik Kostelnik, founder and CEO at TextRecruit, a recent acquisition by iCIMS. If you’ve never heard Erik, you’re in for a treat. We talk CareerBuilder, Dice, chatbots, competing wit
37 min
1416
Uncommon Drops New Automated Sourcing Tool
It’s The Shred for November 6, 2018, brought to you by Judge.com. Guys, blockchain is all the rage right now. And if you’re like most of us, the whole thing is confusing, right? Don’t worry. Chad and I have been working with Judge to give you...
2 min
1417
Firing Squad: XOR.ai
We were totally unprepared for  Mostly, because of the mere fact that they’re so far off the radar. They sound more like a Marvel villain. Boy, we did not see the Firing Squad that unfolded coming. How’d it go? Gotta listen to...
35 min
1418
Facebook Launching Workplace.com
Straight off Halloween’s sugar high, the boys are in rare form this week, talkin’ Handshake’s latest round of investment, protests at Google, the sale of eHarmony, Facebook’s rumored Workplace.com … and we absolutely kill Ladders latest...
45 min
1419
Interview: Adam Godson of Cielo – RecTech Bad Ass
When you want to talk recruitment tech you need to call upon one of the very few BAD ASS RPO tech overloads around the globe. So that’s exactly what Chad & Cheese did… Adam Godson is High Commander of Tech Solutions at Cielo – that’s...
30 min
1420
Kill the Middleman
iCims pushes toward a true end-to-end Talent Acquisition platform. Chad – Welcome to another installment of Chad & Cheese iCIMS iNFLUENCE 2018 Series. In mid-Oct Joel and I flew to NJ and landed at iCIMS HQ for the iCIMS iNFLUENCE event. During...
4 min
1421
Be Afraid … Be Very Afraid!
It’s the Halloween edition of The Chad & Cheese Podcast, which means the boys are counting down everything in recruitment that scared the hell out of them. Hint: The bots are coming! Also, Indeed is crushing it, ZipRecruiter is mobilizing it,...
47 min
1422
ZipRecruiter Launches Job Seeker Profiles
Hey ghouls and goblins, it’s The Shred for October 24, 2018, brought to you by Judge.com. Guys, blockchain is all the rage right now. And if you’re like most of us, the whole thing is confusing, right? Don’t worry. Chad and I have been working...
2 min
1423
What Google Wants
Being an industry leader isn’t easy… Constantly fighting the good fight, providing for clients and job seekers while protecting your flanks and reinventing the entire recruitment industry… That’s exactly what iCIMS leadership is doing. ....
3 min
1424
LinkedIn Introduces Talent Hub (Raw & Unedited)
In the raw: The full audio from LinkedIn’s recent announcement of Talent Hub, their applicant tracking solution (ATS).
8 min
1425
LinkedIn’s Blacklist, Blinders & Creepy Clowns
Holy Hell! Halloween must be close, because companies are losing their minds and scaring the shit out of us. On this week’s show, LinkedIn might have a blacklist, Indeed is 86’ing staffing firms, companies are putting blinders on their desk...
48 min