The Chad & Cheese Podcast

Chad & Cheese Does Europe

16 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Some podcasters do it for the fun. Chad & Cheese? Global domination. That's why we've set our sites on Europe after conquering America and have enlist...

LGBTQ+ for Dummies -- Part 2

14 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to LGBTQ+ for Dummies -- Part 2 It's PRIDE month and we're celebrating and learning more about the LGBTQ+ community. And as a straight white m...

Take This Job and Shove It

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A 1970s' Johnny Paycheck song captures the feeling of today's job market. Take This Job and Shove It!  Yes, even with an unprecedented number of unf...

Eightfold AI Breaks Bank with Latest Funding Round

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Prince of Programmatic

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He's the Prince of Programmatic. Well,.. A Prince... Rob Prince. On this episode, we dive into programmatic and all things UK with our good buddy Rob...

LGBTQ+ for Dummies -- Part 1

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to LGBTQ+ for Dummies  -- Part 1 It's PRIDE month and we're celebrating and learning more about the LGBTQ+ community. And as a straight white...

Guess who's coming to Europe?

06 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Guess who's coming to Europe? On March 10th, 2017 The Chad and Cheese launched our first show. Over the years, Joel and I have focused heavily on the...

Stack the Steal

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's a Stack-quisition... Wait, that sounds familiar! Stack the Steal! Dollar bills, ya'll! Developer community Stack Overflow, one of the 50 most pop...

Snark Attack w/ Matt Charney

02 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Time to turn the snark up to eleven, people. Four years in the making, industry icon - or at least iconic in millennial terms - Matt Charney sits down...

ZipRecruiter Trash Talk

28 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

ZipRecruiter? More Like Dip-Recruiter... Am I right? The boys both turn 50-years-old this week, which means a lot of mature, grown-up, and responsible...

Here Comes $ZIP

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Panic, Truth, & Fire w/ Allyn Bailey

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Allyn Bailey first joined us on a stage in Canada at The Gathering as Intel's Talent Acquisition Transformation Manager. She blew us away. Since then,...

Mya, Wade & Wendy Ménage à Trois

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's episode reads like an alternative to the movie Boogie Nights. We're talkin' a Mya, Wade & Wendy ménage à trois, strippers and exploding ...

PandoLogic Acquires Wade & Wendy

20 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Reevaluate Your DEI w/ Star Carter

19 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Think your company has an inclusive work culture? Might be time to reevaluate. Maybe. The boys sit down for a chat with Kanarys cofounder and COO Star...

The Mysterious Acquisition of Mya

14 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Handshake's Ultimate Hand Job

14 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's an episode full of head-scratchers and high fivers. Oh, and a unicorn. Handshake is now in the Billionaire Valuations Club, which these days is j...

OutMatch acquires....

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Outmatch is on the hunt, since last September Outmatch has acquired Launchpad, FirstPerson, Checkster, and now...... Big thanks Recruitology for supp...

Firing Squad: JobDescription.ai's Oras Al-Kubaisi

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Job descriptions used to be so easy. Five lines in the local newspaper and done. Then the Internet came along and gave us unlimited white space, leadi...

Indeed Gonna Indeed

07 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Just when Indeed looks like they've run out of spaghetti to throw at the wall, they did what this week? We're clearly not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy! ...

Upwork Remains Hot, Launches New Category

06 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Vaccines, Wages, and Hybrid Work

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Let's face it, COVID times are nebulous at best. and with questions like: Should employers mandate the COVID vaccination? Will employers bump wages...

Wage Wars w/ Suresh Naidu

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Remember Suresh Naidu, the professor of economics and international and public affairs at Columbia University? If you haven't heard our first intervie...

Jobvite Lights The Fuse

30 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Chad is back from vacay, and it's a good thing because the news was droppin' like bombs this week. Jobvite gobbled-up JazzHR and NXTThing. Jobcase m...

Ceridian Acquires Ideal

29 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Jobvite Acquires JazzHR, NXTThing RPO, New CEO Named

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

BrassRing Acquired, LinkedIn vs. Degreed, RippleMatch, Talent.com IPO?

23 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How's that saying go? Empires don't die with a bang, they go out with a whimper. Or something like that. If you're thinking the acquisition of Brassri...

Here's How One Fast Food Owner Combats Ghosting

21 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Jackye Clayton is Inclusive AF

21 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We've made significant progress making our workplaces more equitable, diverse, and inclusive, right? Not so fast, says Jackye Clayton, DEI strategist ...

Get Your Laugh On!

18 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Who needs a laugh? 2021 does, right!!?!?! That's exactly why The Chad & Cheese invited the folks at Watercooler Comedy to come on the show for a chat....

Fear, Loathing, and ZipRecruiter

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy added 233K jobs in January, 468K in February, and 916K in March. So, everyone who got a pink ...

ATS Report 2021

14 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), love 'em or hate 'em they're the core technology of life as a Talent Acquisition and Recruiting professional. The di...

Candidate.ID Lands Another Round of Investment

13 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Firing Squad: Wedge HR's Matt Baxter

12 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Video interviewing. You've probably heard it's sort of a thing since the pandemic. We're talkin' mass acquisitions here. So here comes Wedge HR with t...

Unicorns Everywhere!

09 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cha-ching! Just when you thought more money couldn't come into workforce tech, something else knocks your socks off. This week... Phenom announced a ...

Big Funding w/ Unicorn Status

07 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On to the NEWS: Another player receives big funding and "Unicorn: status! Big thanks Recruitology for supporting The Shred. Recruitology brings machi...

Top Talent Myth w/ Frida Polli

06 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Chad & Cheese continue the well-pedigreed conversations, this time with a CEO/cofounder reppin' Harvard, Dartmouth, and MIT. Pymetrics, Frida Poll...

Sprint Recruiting w/ Trent Cotton

05 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ever heard the concepts behind sprint recruiting? Well, we've got the guy who wrote the book on the topic, super-recruiter Trent Cotton. A sneak-peek:...

LinkedIn Da Club

02 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The world is awakening from its pandemic-induced coma. What does that look like? We’re starting to get an idea, as predictions of a hot job market ...

Meet Indeed's New Smartypants CMO

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Redefining HR w/ Lars Schmidt

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you've been in employment for any period of time, you know Lars Schmidt, author of the Bestselling Book, "Redefining HR," podcast host, founder at ...

What's Your COVID Brand?

29 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Just when you thought you had that whole employer brand game figured out, along comes a pandemic and tosses that EB playbook right out the window. Exp...

LinkedIn We Have A Problem

26 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There’s bad, there’s rotten and then there’s LinkedIn’s job board strategy. It’s like peeling an onion and the boys are almost in tears cove...

Fundraising Galore: Visage, Fetcher, Lattice

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Rick Rolled w/ Rick Carsley

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The guest so nice, we had to have him on twice. Listeners will remember a red-hot interview Chad & Cheese did in 2020 with IKEA's Rick Carsley, and lu...

Firing Squad: SponTea Coffee's Viktoria Sheyko

22 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

COVID has made online video incredibly popular in the workplace, but it's also made human connections harder to come by. And engaging with new people ...

LinkedIn Job Boards Like It's 1999

19 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Stick around in this industry long enough and you may see something like a mobile stock trading app called Robinhood acquire a staffing firm. Yeah, th...

Robinhood (Yes, *That* Robinhood) Acquires Staffing Firm

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

The State of Programmatic Job Ads

17 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Performance-based ads have become a highly-adopted and powerful tool for Marketing departments throughout the world, and yet it hasn't in Recruitment ...

Shakin' It Up w/ John Graham

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For the most part, Corporate America sucks at Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Wait, you don't believe me? Look at the numbers for this nearly 60-yea...

Seekout, Jobandtalent Open The Vault

12 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cha-ching! Seekout, Jobandtalent open the vault! Let's just cut to the chase. This episode has everything our listeners crave: Mad investment dollars ...

Seekout Announces $65 Million Series B

09 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Can't Touch This w/ Albrey Brown

07 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Incl...

Facebook Jobs Invasion

05 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's a lactose-free episode of The Chad & Cheese podcast with special guest, Canadian podcast superstar, Shelley Billinghurst of The Recruitment Flex....

Move Fast. Break Shit. Burn Out.

03 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Coming Clean w/ Arran Stewart

28 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Job.com founder Arran Stewart has been busy making acquisitions - or at least promising acquisitions - since his company appeared on Death Match in Au...

Recruitics Embraces The Stranger

26 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 o...

Phenom Acquires Talentcube

25 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

ATS Feature Hell w/ Lital Sherman

24 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Radio: Crap Rap by Caroo

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

HR and TA keep pumping out the hits! This one courtesy of the team over at Caroo - Crap Rap!

Moped Money w/ Torin Ellis

21 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's part 2 of our interview with Torin Ellis, DEI consultant, risk mitigator, and truth-teller! We continue to exorcise our demons while having some ...

Indeed's FUBAR UX

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"Indeed gives zero fucks about employers!!!"... Yes, that's a quote from an employer... and No you're not surprised. What do you get when you cross In...

Google Caves to Pressure from Down Under

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Entelo CRO Ejects

17 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

You might remember that last May Entelo unceremoniously kicked their founder and CEO to the curb, and soon to follow Chief Product Officer Danielle We...

Firing Squad: Caroo's Gareth Peterson

17 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

UK-based and focused Caroo has tickled the industry's funny bone recently. With a series of marketing strategies that have pushed the boundaries of go...

Exorcising Our Demons

14 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Crazy shit has been going down, right?  What we need right now is a good exorcism.  But it's so damned hard to allow your demons out for everyone to...

Paychex Squeezes Recruiting

12 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Valentine's Day is close and love is in the air. What kind of love are we covering this week? Paychex marries errrr... acquires Danish Applicant Trac...

To Check or Not To Check?

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We know, you'd rather play with a bag o' glass than listen to a podcast about background checks, huh? Bet you'd change your mind if you knew the guest...

Paradox Adds Video to Chatbot

09 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Google Jobs Antitrust

07 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Adzuna CEO and Founder Doug Monro have a thing or two to say about Google's anti-competitive practices, particularly around job search. He's even join...

Indeed Gets Penalized

05 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When I grow up ... Super Bowl ads in our industry are back with Indeed's decision to drop $10 million-plus on an ad in the Big Game. Oh yeah, we have ...

Job.com Acquires Talenting

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Tech: A Force for Good DEI

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are on the lips of Talent Acquisition professionals all over the world. Many of those companies talk-the-talk when it...

Indeed.com Announces Super Bowl Ad

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Workday Goes Shopping

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Take a break from counting your Gamestop millions! Lots happened this week in the world of recruiting. Bayard got acquired TMP rebranded - let the d...

Bayard Gets Bought

27 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Recruiting Trends: A New Frontier

27 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jobvite's yearly recruiter survey is always a highlight, and this year is no different. From Social media to video recruiting to job board investment ...

World Premiere Single - Hourly

26 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hourly by Tripp & Tyler featuring Montell Jordan You've met the Overwhelmed Hiring Manager and the Frustrated Job Seeker. Now....let the Pop Music Su...

TMP Worldwide is Randancy?

26 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

TMP changes their name to Radiancy, no Radancy... Yea Radancy, that's gonna take a minute to get used to...  Big thanks Recruitology for supporting ...

Personio Rides the Dinosaur

22 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's a new day in America. New president. New Vice President, who's also a minority woman! The new attitude in the New World, if you will. The sun ros...

Firing Squad: BrightHire's Teddy Chestnut

20 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

While the world of recruiting is running toward a future of automation and a process devoid of human beings, others are championing a hybrid approach:...

Unicorn Status

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bolstered by an additional $125 million of Series D funding, and a company valuation reaching $1.7 billion Personio has established financial stabilit...

Greenhouse Green

15 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hallelujah podcasts can't be impeached! Because Chad & Cheese are always dancing on the line of what's legal in at least 17 states, and this week is n...

Greenhouse Lands $500M Investment

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

CareerGig Acquires Moonlighting

13 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Tiger Boss

13 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Adding to the long line of guests much smarter than the podcast hosts, The Chad & Cheese welcome author, entrepreneur, filmmaker, tech philosopher, an...

Paradox Learns How to Spetz

08 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What a year so far, huh? The world needs a new beacon of hope, and Chad & Cheese are here to fill the void. On this week's show Paradox learns how to...

Can A.I. Fix Hiring in 2021?

06 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's finally 2021. Can Artificial Intelligence finally takeover hiring? HiredScore's founder and CEO Athena Karp is one of the world's experts on A.I....

Paradox Gobbles-Up Israeli-Based Chatbot Startup

05 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

2021 Predictions

01 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's the return of Sackadamus! Industry icon Tim Sackett joins Chad & Cheese for their 4th annual predictions show with an eye toward 2021. Thank baby...

2020 Naughty & Nice List

25 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ya' better watch out. Ya' better not cry. Better not pout ... 'cause this is the naughty and nice edition of The Chad & Cheese Podcast. Who was bad? W...

Three Acquisitions and an Integration

18 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Buy! Buy! Buy! The money just keeps flowing into the employment industry this holiday season, as Talent Inc. - the folks behind ResumeRabbit, Top Resu...

What Pandemic? ZipRecruiter Eyes IPO

16 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Firing Squad: Sourcr's Chris Almond

16 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Review sites are hot and valuable. Just ask Glassdoor, which sold for over a billion dollars last year. But do reviews translate to staffing agencies ...

iCIMS Chalks-Up Another Acquisition

14 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Mystery Acquisition

11 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ever been stood up on a date? Yeah, we know the feeling after being stood up by our TOP STORY this week, although we're making lemons into lemonade an...

Indeed's Got Some New Competition

10 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 R...

Comedy, The Best Medicine

09 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's 2020. If you don't laugh, you'll cry. That's why the boys bring Ray Ellin, comedian and founder of Comedy Cloud to the podcast. Ellin's company b...

Lightning in a Paint Can

06 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Question: When does paint in a can become lightening in a bottle?  Answer: At 1 million+ TikTok subscribers We recently talked about Tony Piloseno, ...

The Big Slack-quisition

04 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Did someone order a weekly podcast with extra Slack? This week, the boys dive headfirst into... Salesforce acquires Slack - what does that mean for t...