The Chad & Cheese Podcast
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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.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jul 2, 2019 • 19min
Gerry Tales II (Electric Boogaloo)
Gerry Tales with industry icon Gerry Crispin was off-the-chain, and this is Part II of our interview all-things-recruiting. Enjoy, get smarter and show exclusive sponsor Uncommon some love.
Jul 1, 2019 • 3min
Appcast Acquired by Stepstone
It’s The Shred – a mini-Chad and Cheese bite of Breaking
News — This is Chad Sowash
On to the NEWS for July 1st 2019..
The Deutschland powerhouse Stepstone acquires
programmatic job distribution darling Appcast.
You heard it here on Chad & Cheese first – It’s an
arms race kids and Stepstone made an incredibly wise choice in gobbling up a
majority share of Appcast today. 85% of Chris Foreman’s baby now belongs to
Stepstone, Chris’ back hurts from carry
Jun 28, 2019 • 50min
‘Jibe’ Turkeys & Slack Smackdowns
If you missed the news breakdown from last week, you’re in for a treat this week. The boys breakdown a bevy of news, including iCIMS buying Jibe, another chatbot domino falling, rumors out of CareerBuilder, Entelo and Salesforce, and new headwinds for Slack. Enjoy the tsunami of news and opinion from HR’s most dangerous podcast. And always remember, Sovren, Canvas and JobAdx make it all possible.
Jun 26, 2019 • 37min
Firing Squad: Job.com
An old URL with a lot of new ideas – including blockchain, paying job seekers and a credit card (yes, credit card) – but we’ll see how the company does against 40 years of industry experience. Chad & Cheese run Job.com CEO Arran Stewart through the firing squad … gotta listen to see how he does. As usual, Firing Squad is made possible by Talroo.
Jun 26, 2019 • 15min
Gerry Tales w/ Gerry Crispin
Gerry Crispin is an industry treasure and a virtual encyclopedia for anyone who wants to take a look back at how things used to be, as well as getting an historical perspective on the present and the future. Chad & Cheese chatted with Gerry and it turned into a conversation that lasted well over an hour (too much for our listeners to digest in one sitting). We’ve chopped it up, and this is the first in a series of what we’re calling Gerry Tales … like Fairy Tales … get it? Enjoy
Jun 24, 2019 • 47min
Live from Smashfly’s Transform Conference
The boys cover just about everything with Smashfly’s Josh Zywien, Delta Airlines’ Holland McCue and Fiserv’s Julia Levy. Enjoy this live show from Boston and throw our sponsors – Sovren, JobAdx and Canvas – lots of love.
Jun 21, 2019 • 5min
THE SHRED – Returnships
THE SHRED – Don’t Call
It a Comeback! They’ve been here for years.
Here’s a bit
of news from the political blog – Roll Call.
“A pair of Democratic senators
introduced legislation Thursday that would offer subsidies to employers who
hire longtime unemployed workers. The draft bill, sponsored by Sen. Chris Van
Hollen of Maryland and backed by Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, aims to assist an
estimated 1.3 million people who have been out of work for at least six months.
The government would offer
Jun 21, 2019 • 5min
THE SHRED — Facebook That’s Just Nasty
The Absolutely Horrible, Disgusting
and Inexcusable Working Conditions at Facebook
Facebook
moderators are the cops of the social network. They patrol its cyberspace for
things like hate speech, murders in livestream, child pornography and anything
else that can be generated by the worst examples of its global society. One
such Facebook moderator was Keith Utley. He worked the overnight shift at a
Facebook content moderation site in Tampa, FL, operated by a professional
services vendor named Cognizant. H
Jun 20, 2019 • 35min
Tag-Teaming ‘Recruiting Future’ Podcaster Matt Alder
Three podcasters – one British, two American – get together and talk recruitment. Lock the doors, hide ya’ kids and serve-up the tea and crumpets. Enjoy this cross-Atlantic crossover.
Jun 18, 2019 • 34min
Talkin’ ‘Bad Touch’ with Nexxt’s Andy Katz
What do you get when you bring 65 years of industry experience under one podcast? Press play and find out, as the boys chat with Nexxt’s 25-year veteran Andy Katz. There will be beer on this Nexxt exclusive.
