The Chad & Cheese Podcast

Marketers make great bedfellows. Who knew? Candidate.ID and iCIMS, that's who. The boys dig into the hottest acquisition news of the week, plus review HackerRank's latest funding round. What else? Layoffs at a unicorn, a "GPS for your Career" and a job-related URL that commanded a six-figure price-tag. Say what? Lastly, porn star Bree Olson breaks down The Great Resignation like only a porn star can. Huzzah!

Quit rates have reached record levels and employees are making their voices heard. But how can a company change the narrative and retain employees through empowering their people?  The lived experience of an employee working for Trianual is how founder and CEO Chris Ronzio defines culture and he's ready to bet $5,000 cash money that any aligned candidate will buy into his company and culture. Wait a minute, is this really power to the people or a cheap publicity stunt? The numbers do not lie and the mantra of "Hold Us Accountable" can help hiring companies as they peer into the organizational mirror seeking answers. Will this type of strategy help your company thrive? Trianual is thriving, listen to why. 

iCIMS, the talent cloud company, today announced the acquisition of... LISTENBig thanks Recruitology for supporting The Shred. Recruitology brings machine learning and AI to virtual job fairs, remember when virtual job fairs were lame? Not anymore, check out how you can leverage candidate matching and programmatic job distribution with a virtual job fair at recruitology.com/employers.

Automation in the interview space is smokin' hot, and Indianapolis-based Qualifi is hoping the profit off the trend by providing automated phone pre-screening for healthcare pros, truckers, and more ... with the actual deep-dive interview done by humans. It's either a home run or a total face-plant, offering too little, too late in an ever-automating world. (What do you mean no video!?!?!) You be the judge. Actually, just let Chad & Cheese be the judge ... that's what they're here for anyway.

This week's show is a wild ride. Sorta like a winding small intestine, it was all over the place and ended explosively. We go from European startups HeyJobs and Omnipresent kicking ass and taking names to a ruckus game of buy-or-sell featuring Rolebot, Bambee (our favorite stripper name, by the way), Learn In, and Workramp. Turns out, Portugal is making Chad a big softie when it comes to "selling" startups. Then there's lots of Great Resignation talk and we end the show by poking Mother Nature right where it hurts. Not just the tip and no pulling out on this show. Enjoy.

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Acquisition, investment, and head-scratching aren't stopping when it comes to workforce news and commentary in Europe. That's what Lieven and Chad & Cheese bring Kelly's Tim Pröhm, VP, KellyX Digital Innovation Lab, to the podcast for insight into 1) Cornerstone OnDemand's latest deal, 2) Stepstone pulling out of France and 3) Circular's latest investment round (buy-or-sell alert!). Oh yeah, Elon might even make a cameo this week too.

By ignoring web accessibility, you're closing the door on millions of would-be applicants to your job openings. Companies both big and small drop the ball. That's why we invited Matt Stubbs, a leader in web accessibility, on the podcast to both educate and scare the hell out of listeners to get their accessibility house in order.Looking at you, JP Morgan, and around 90% of the rest of you. 

We're finally recording a show on St. Patrick's Day, which means Cheese is still in bed while you listen to this the day after. Anyway, the boys discuss Talent.com's recent funding round (and whether or not they're a unicorn), CareerBuilder's latest attempt at innovation, going back-to-work gone wrong at a major bank, the latest creative work platform that's caught the attention of NBA superstar Kevin Durant and former Disney CEO Michael Eisner ... and, of course, robots invading your favorite restaurants. It’s the podcast at the end of the rainbow, and yes, we are magically delicious. Enjoy.

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.