

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.
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Mar 12, 2021 • 47min
Seekout, Jobandtalent Open The Vault
Cha-ching! Seekout, Jobandtalent open the vault!Let's just cut to the chase. This episode has everything our listeners crave: Mad investment dollars going into TA tech startups, international intrigue, recruiting robots in your pocket, Indeed, CareerBuilder, Monster and Amazon bashing, women worshipping, and yes, even Burger King.So throw that into your iPod Classic and smoke it! Special thanks to Sovren, JobAdx, and Jobvite for powering this monstrosity.

Mar 9, 2021 • 4min
Seekout Announces $65 Million Series B
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.
Mar 7, 2021 • 37min
Can't Touch This w/ Albrey Brown
How do you turn a company with 13% female engineers to one with 27%? Straight outta Oaktown, the boys invite the head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Airtable, Albrey Brown, on the show and chat diversity recruiting, what a typical day in the life of a DE&I director looks like and even find time for MC Hammer jokes. U can't touch this, but you should sure as hell listen to this pod powered by NEXXT. Nexxt, connects you to a whole world of talent and the tactics you need to reach them..
Mar 5, 2021 • 47min
Facebook Jobs Invasion
It's a lactose-free episode of The Chad & Cheese podcast with special guest, Canadian podcast superstar, Shelley Billinghurst of The Recruitment Flex.This week we ask...- Why is Facebook invading my notifications and feed with jobs?- Will COVID kill the job board star?- Is Work From Home just a phase?- Will spinning the vinyl help Goldman Sachs CEO remote-free strategy?...and will Canada align with the UK on gig?You've got questions and we've got Molson and Yukon Jack fueled hypotheses.Big thanks to our friends at Jobvite, JobAdX, and Sovren for supporting The Chad & Cheese - HR's Most Dangerous Podcast.

Mar 3, 2021 • 35min
Move Fast. Break Shit. Burn Out.
Aside from being a summary of one of our podcasts, it's also a #1 Amazon Best Seller and one of nine books Entrepreneur Magazine says you have to read this year. Authors Tracey Lovejoy and Shannon Lucas join the boys to talk about catalysts, and what they mean to an organization, and how they can thrive. Just another podcast where someone smarter than the hosts come and chat. Enjoy this Sovren powered podcast. Sovren, software so human you'll want to take it to dinner.
Feb 28, 2021 • 34min
Coming Clean w/ Arran Stewart
Job.com founder Arran Stewart has been busy making acquisitions - or at least promising acquisitions - since his company appeared on Death Match in Austin a few years ago.Needless to say, Chad & Cheese have some questions, focused on the recent acquisitions of HireVergence and Talenting, as well as hoping to get to the bottom of the whole blockchain in employment issue. Is Job.com destined to default to job board status, or can it fill the innovation shoes its founder keeps promising? Maybe somewhere in the middle?Another power-packed episode brought to you by the NEXXT generation of hiring.
Feb 26, 2021 • 41min
Recruitics Embraces The Stranger
This one's a real rush of blood to the head!
Recruitics and Phenom are continuing the acquisition boom in our industry
LinkedIn is looking to take on Fiverr and Upwork.
And that's just the Chad & Cheese appetizer, as the boys then dig into billion-dollar companies that poo-poo HR departments, professors who do hardcore drugs to achieve work-life balance, and even a good ol' fashioned dust-up with industry vet Bill Boorman.It's a good time after a week that came with a hefty dose of salt and vinegar. As always, C&C are powered by Jobvite, Sovren, and JobAdx.

Feb 25, 2021 • 4min
Phenom Acquires Talentcube
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.
Feb 24, 2021 • 29min
ATS Feature Hell w/ Lital Sherman
Maintaining a platform with decades of unused features, or multiple features providing the same end to a means, or a pile of feature dropdowns leading to a totally unusable system is leading indicators you possibly reside in "Feature Hell".A well-designed, user-friendly ATS is a little like trying to find Sasquatch. It apparently exists, but really hard to find. Well, lucky for you, Chad & Cheese have nabbed Bigfoot, metaphorically that is. Meet Lital Sherman, Head of Experience Design at PageUp, who agreed to sit down with the boys for a few and chat applicant tracking design dos and don'ts. Dig into testing, mobile, and feature hell with us, won't you?Matching candidates to jobs shouldn't be Hell either, which is why you need Sovren as your parsing and matching partner. Visit Sovren.com, tell them Chad & Cheese sent you and to send us more bourbon. We're almost out!
Feb 23, 2021 • 3min
Radio: Crap Rap by Caroo
HR and TA keep pumping out the hits!This one courtesy of the team over at Caroo - Crap Rap!


