The Chad & Cheese Podcast

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What's The Chad & Cheese Podcast about?

Industry veterans Joel Cheesman and Chad Sowash are here to punch the recruiting industry right where it hurts, complete with breaking news, brash opinion, and loads of snark. Chad & Cheese discuss a wide variety of topics and current news stories around recruiting, human resources, and employment. Hiring companies, employers, and vendors tune in for insights from practitioners, vendors, startups, and more.

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JobGet Takes Aim at Jobcase

06.24.2022

Who doesn't love a good underdog story? The upstart hoping to make noise in an established market. That's why you'll love this weekly episode. Jobget looks to take on Jobcase and Snagajob with a new round of funding. Fountain puts ...

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06.24.2022 JobGet Takes Aim at Jobcase Who doesn't love a good underdog story? The upstart hoping to make noise in an established market. That's why you'll love this weekly episode. Jobget looks to take on Jobcase and Snagajob with a new round of funding. Fountain puts ...
06.23.2022 JobGet Just Got Lotsa Cash 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.
06.22.2022 Love or Hate TestGorilla Summer is officially here and things are really starting to heat-up in Europe. Adzuna and Textkernel just made some really interesting acquisitions. TestGorilla wants to be, um, the 800-lb. gorilla in the assessment space. And Paris-based CleverConnect has "merged" with ...
06.20.2022 Fill, Equip, & Win w/ Chloe and Allison Okay people, aren't we asking way too much of recruiters? Source, outreach, schedule, interview, provide a white glove experience and don't forget about creating, distributing, and engaging on original and genuine content. Wait, content? Well, on this week's Cult Brand ...
06.17.2022 Adzuna & TextKernel Devour While Joel wanders the Canadian plains petting Moose and trying to convince Canadian geese to stay in Canada we are honored to have Jenny Cotie Kangas, aka JCK, stepping into the guest host slot and on this week's show EUROPE ...
06.15.2022 A.I. Hiring Tools: The Wild West? The Wild Wild West wasn't just a hit song from Kool Moe Dee in the '80s, it's also how workers' rights expert and Senior Policy Counsel for Worker Privacy with the Center for Democracy & Technology, Matt Scherer describes the ...
06.14.2022 Adzuna Acquires Getwork, Eyes U.S. Growth 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.
06.13.2022 Firing Squad: Amplio's Trung Tran Life is getting pretty stressful for workers. Fear, uncertainty, and doubt have us all on edge. That's why the health and well-being of your employees have taken on new importance. Enter Amploi.ai, and its founder Trung Tran, who's busy building ...
06.10.2022 TextKernel is Hungry! TexkKernel continues its acquisition ways with this new deal. #LISTEN
06.10.2022 Multiverse Unicorn alert!
06.08.2022 Indeed vs. LinkedIn - Battle for Europe On this week's Fromage-free show we have insider reactions to the "Bain Capital House of HR Party", then the UK revives the spirit of Florence Nightengale through technology, and wait... Are we still talking about job boards? You're goddam right ...
06.06.2022 Super Pumped Hiring Imagine being behind the scenes during brand crisis hiring situations at Uber and WeWork. Literally the basis for "We Crashed" or "Super Pumped" mini-series. This type of experience should come with a diploma. But seriously, Employment Brand veteran Andrew Levy ...
06.03.2022 Bain Capital House Party It's a house party, ya'll! House of HR party, that is. The company just received funding from Bain Capital in return for 55% of the organization. But if that's not unicorn-y enough for you, Guild just joined the $4+ billion ...
06.01.2022 Events Are Unleashed Oh, how we’ve missed in-person events. Being at Unleash in Vegas last week, rubbing elbows and sharing smiles after nearly 3 years was such a joy. That’s why we had to get the guy who made it all happen on ...
05.31.2022 Bain Capital Grabs Majority Stake in House of HR 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.
05.30.2022 Are Bootcamps THE Answer? Coding bootcamps are gaining in popularity. The combination of rising in remote learning, a serious talent crunch for coders, and a lack of confidence in the current educational system have been like gas on a fire. That's why Chad & ...
05.27.2022 Wells Fargo Can Eat a Bag o’ Sh*t Vegas, baby! Talking Velocity Global, Wells Fargo, California Pay Transparency, WorkReels and the Unleash Roundup, live from the Lobby Bar! Can you tell we haven’t been let out in awhile?
05.25.2022 Jobandtalent is Coming to America, Neil Diamond-Style Between shipments of baby formula to the U.S., Finland and Sweden applying for NATO and the impending monkeypox apocalypse, asking people to keep up with the employment scene in Europe isn't easy. So aren't you lucky Chad & Cheese, joined ...
05.24.2022 Velocity Global Snags $400M to Help Employers Hire Remote Talent 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.
05.23.2022 Firing Squad: Lluna's Jess Podgajny Empowering your team with flexibility and choice just got a whole lot easier. That's the promise of startup Philly-based Lluna, who offers flexibility and choice for employees ... whatever the hell that means. Can founder and CEO Jess Podgajny explain ...
05.20.2022 Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Dice & Styx - The Best of Times t's a world full of good news ... and a growing amount of bad news. No surprise, the world of work is no different. And Chad & Cheese are here to talk about it. If you're Indeed, ZipRecruiter and Dice, ...
05.19.2022 Here's What iCIMS Just Learned About Gen Z 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.
05.16.2022 It's a Job Seeker Nation! There are a lot of surveys out there. But very few of them have a track record going back 13 years. That's why we invited Employ, the new parent company of Jobvite, JazzHR, and NXTThing RPO and their CMO Allie ...
05.13.2022 It's Raining Cash for iCIMS, Deel & Rippling Facebook is in a hiring freeze, crypto is crashing and Uber says it’s going to "treat hiring as a privilege" as a way to cut costs. What, us worry? Hell no. Deel, Rippling and iCIMS are raising money, enjoying some ...
05.12.2022 Deel Goes 'Decacorn' After Latest Funding Round 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.
05.11.2022 JobandTalent Goes Full Viking Hangovers and jet-lag be damned! The show must go on. That's why the boys connected after the conference in Ostend this week to chat a little Euro news and breakdown the week in Belgium. Adecco was in the news for ...
05.06.2022 LinkedIn Loses Again!?! Recording live from Ostend, Belgium, ahead of the House of HR conference, the boys are in the kind of zone only a pint of Chimay can inspire. LinkedIn loses again and Comparably says it’s probably time to stop thinking Glassdoor ...
05.04.2022 Recruitment Marketing: You Want It Employment branding is hotter than ever. Thanks Great Resignation! However, as our special guest James Ellis, host of The Talent Cast podcast and senior manager at Recursion says, "We're all just figuring it out as we go along." That's why ...
05.03.2022 Pando - No, Not THAT Pando - Raises $6.9M 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.
05.02.2022 All Are Welcome w/ Cynthia Owyoung Cynthia Owyoung is VP, of inclusion, equity, and belonging at Robinhood. She's also the author of a new book, "All Are Welcome: How to Build a Real Workplace Culture of Inclusion that Delivers Results." So, if you have to ask ...
04.29.2022 Beamery Me Up, Scotty Beamery me up, Scotty, and get that Delorean to 88 MPH! This show is heavy, and not because there's something wrong with the earth's gravitational pull in the future. No, it's because we have an acquisition of some company called ...
04.27.2022 Beamery Just Acquired Who? 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.
04.27.2022 Firing Squad: Bryq's Markellos Diorinos What's your favorite brick-related song? (She's a) "Brick House? "Another Brick in the Wall"? Maybe Ben Folds' simply titled "Brick"? Anyway, startup Bryq is hoping they'll be your new favorite "brick." Don't worry, we'll cover the name and URL - ...
04.25.2022 Recipe for Acquisition Coming down from the high of the recent iCIMS acquisition of CandidateID, former CEO Adam Gordon of CandidateID and Mike Wilczak, chief product & development officer at iCIMS, join Chad & Cheese for the "morning-after" recap of the deal. Included ...
04.22.2022 Hirevue says "Buyer Beware" Tired of hearing about unicorns in the recruitment space? Doesn't matter, because the parade of glitter-pooping horses continues this week with a double-banger that includes Oyster and Clipboard getting to that billion-dollar valuation. Next, two companies worth well north of ...
04.21.2022 This Oyster is Makin' Pearls! 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.
04.20.2022 Handshake Eyes Europe The war in Ukraine continues to pull at the fabric of European economies and companies. That's why we invited Neill Dunwoody of Spryt and TechlinkUkraine to join the boys on his take and insight into what the war means for ...
04.18.2022 HR Manifesto What happens when you get HR's most dangerous podcast together with the industry's most popular TikTok celebrity? Yup, insanity! The boys bring on Leigh Henderson, A.K.A., HR Manifesto, to reveal the secrets of TikTok success for employers. We also dig-in ...
04.15.2022 Talent.com Says No Free Rides! Talent.com Says Nobody Rides for Free There's always a bigger fish. And with the recent acquisition of GoodHire, Checkr - valued at $4.6 billion - shows that it's got an appetite worthy of great white shark status. (Sterling, you have ...
04.13.2022 Checkr Completes Its Largest Acquisition Ever 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.
04.13.2022 Firing Squad: RecruitCRM's Sean Mallapurkar Who doesn't love a good David vs. Goliath story? That's why we invited Recruit CRM to come onto Firing Squad. This cocky startup run by Sean Mallapurkar thinks it can actually put a dent in Bullhorn's armor and grab a ...
04.11.2022 DEI Easy Button w/ Barb Hyman Diversity, equity and inclusion are still on the tip of many employers' tongues. However, things like a global pandemic and a world on the edge of World War III have stolen a lot of the spotlight in recent years. So, ...
04.08.2022 BRAVO Indeed... What? Did Chad and Indeed Just Become Best Friends? Think unicorn production is slowing down? Think again, because we not only have a new unicorn on this week's show, we have a triple-unicorn, baby! Welcome to the club, IntelyCare, and Remote! ...
04.07.2022 Remote Achieves Triple-Unicorn Status 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.
04.06.2022 Axel Springer's New Fluffer Axel Springer Needs a Fluffer Europe continues to be a hotbed of workforce news. That's why the boys brought on AIM Group's managing editor Pavel Marceux on the podcast. Pavel wrote a story entitle, "Metaverse hiring: A passing tech fad ...
04.04.2022 Kill The Resume? Resumes are dead. Sourcing is pointless. Applicant tracking systems have failed us. At least that's the opinion of Maya Huber, co-founder, and CEO of Skillset, an Israeli-based job skills test platform. Is she right? Well, Chad & Cheese have some ...
04.01.2022 iCIMS + Candidate.ID Activate! 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 ...
03.30.2022 Gamify the Quit 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 ...
03.29.2022 iCIMS Acquires... iCIMS, the talent cloud company, today announced the acquisition of... LISTEN Big 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 ...
03.27.2022 Firing Squad: Qualifi's Darrian Mikell 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 ...

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