The Chad & Cheese Podcast
Episodes
Interview: Anoop Gupta, SeekOut CEO
15 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not everyday you get to talk to someone who was a direct report to Bill Gates, but Chad & Cheese have done it. Meet Anoop Gupta, co-founder and...
Microsoft Buys GitHub
07 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With Chad in Europe for the next 3 weeks, Cheese pulls a Lionel Richie and goes solo, talkin’ news and opinion on Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHu...
Huh? Indeed Buys Resume.com
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Indeed keeps building-up that moat against Google, but the latest acquisition of Resume.com has the boys shaking their heads. Plus Dice still has a pu...
Money, Money, Money … and Millennials
24 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you thought an upcoming holiday weekend would mean a slow week in the recruiting industry, then you’re gravely mistaken, kiddies. Chad & Cheese b...
Firing Squad: HireVisor
22 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Startup HireVisor faces the firing squad. Will their warm-and-fuzzy, sharing-is-caring business model pass the test? Gotta listen to this Talroo e...
Interview w/ Colin Day, CEO at iCIMS – An Uncommon.co Exclusive
22 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Day, founder, chairman and CEO at popular ATS iCIMS doesn’t pull any punches. He’s more than happy to give his honest opinion on everythin...
Uncommon.co Demo
18 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The boys checkout Uncommon.co‘s product demo. And there’s beer too. Enjoy. Audio Only. For the video please go to the YouTube channel.
Indeed Embraces Its Inner Glassdoor
17 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Indeed had its annual event this week. News and opinion from the show highlight this week’s episode. Also, Google for Jobs referral traffic numbers ...
Firing Squad: Woo.io
11 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Were the boys wooed by Woo? You’ll have to listen to find out on this Talroo exclusive.
Glassdoor Gets Acquired
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What started out as a pretty slow week certainly picked up by Hump Day. Glassdoor was acquired by Indeed’s parent company for $1.2 billion. The boys...
Interview with Jobalign's CEO - A Nexxt Exclusive
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re hiring hourly workers today, you feel pain. Services like Jobalign are at the forefront of working to solve this problem. Chad and Cheese ...
Monster Goes Geico
03 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, CareerBuilder and Monster have opposing strategies on job search, Monster’s new ads go “all Geico,” Stepstone buys Univer...
Interview: Tony Lee of SHRM – Uncommon.co Exclusive
28 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An Uncommon exclusive … the boys sit down with industry icon Tony Lee for a walk down Memory Lane, an update on what’s new at SHRM and even ta...
CareerBuilder Says Sell! Sell! Sell!
27 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The mergers and acquisitions market is heating up this week. Names like CareerBuilder, Adecco and PeopleFluent keep things interesting. Plus Google fo...
Interview with the CEOs of Talroo (Formerly Jobs2Careers) and JobAdX
19 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Live from SHRM Talent in Las Vegas earlier this week, Chad & Cheese sit down with two of the most exciting companies around today, in two of the most ...
Interview: PandoLogic & CandidateID
19 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The boys are still working through hangovers from a week in Ireland, but our pain is your gain. We were able to land a handful of interviews at the Gu...
Indeed Jail
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Industry veteran Tim Sackett discusses the trials and tribulations of being sentenced to Indeed “jail.” You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll lon...
CareerBuilder is a Trainwreck
12 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you only listen to one episode of The Chad & Cheese Podcast, this one might be it. CareerBuilder is a mess right now, according to our sources. We’...
Firing Squad: RoboRecruiter
05 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a lot of confusion around chatbots in recruiting. Do you need one? Which one? How much? Questions abound on this technology that serves as a...
Interviews from ERE: VideoMyJob, YouVisit, Seekout, AllyO
04 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hey kids, this week Joel was in San Diego at ERE and Chad was in San Francisco at a Biddle Consulting Group Institute Summit – swanky right? Luck...
Interview: Clinch & Smashly | Nexxt Exclusive
31 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Another Nexxt exclusive podcast, the boys sit down with two of the hottest TA tech companies in the vendor space: Clinch and Smashfly. Enjoy.
Hey Indeed, Thanks For Ruining a Perfectly Good Song From Our Childhood!
29 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After a bit of hiatus and a stint at the Guiness Recover Unit at the local hospital, Chad & Cheese are back in the groove, sticking it to everyone who...
Firing Squad – Uncommon.co
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
People on LinkedIn aren’t looking for a job and too many candidates on job boards aren’t qualified. Therein lies the heart of start-up Uncommon...
Interview: Hire with Google’s Bogomil Balkansky – A Nexxt Exclusive
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A Nexxt exclusive! One of the biggest treats from our time at TAtech in Ireland this month was the opportunity to see Hire with Google’s Bogomil ...
Live in Dublin for TAtech Europe
14 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The boys take their act across the Atlantic for TAtech Europe, conveniently scheduled around St. Patrick’s Day. Sláinte!
Glassdoor Raising Prices
08 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Call it the International Women’s Day episode, although it’s mostly about Millennial-bashing. This week: United Airlines does a U-turn on bonus ...
Glassdoor’s Rumored IPO
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
March Madness is podcast madness, apparently. On this week’s episode, the “badasses” are talkin’: Google keeps kickin’ ass and takin’ na...
Why Would Anyone Launch a Job Board Today? C’Mon, Man!
23 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Money continues to flow into HR tech companies and people are still launching job boards. Yeah, you heard that right. Job boards. C’mon, really? The...
Talkin’ ICOs, Blockchain & Crypto w/ Moonlighting CEO – A Nexxt Exclusive
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Chad and Cheese listeners know that Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning has taken center stage as the bright and shiny objects of the rec...
Firing Squad – Candidate.ID
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Waking the dead in your resume database is all the rage. Companies like Crowded (Firing Squad alumni), Lever and ConveyIQ (formerly Take The Interview...
ZipRecruiter Takes Aim at a $1 Billion Valuation
10 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dollar dollar bill ya’ll! Money is flowing into the recruitment tech space like a melting glacier into the Atlantic Ocean. In this week’s episode,...
Chad & Cheese’s Super Bowl Commercial
02 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We did an ad for this year’s Super Bowl. Monster’s going to love it!
Top 10 Employment-Related Commercials of All-Time … and One of Our Own
02 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show: Amazon is tracking your trips to the shitter Monster gets a bad case of the shrinkage Top 10 industry commercials of all-ti...
Onsite Interview with Text Recruiting Startup Canvas
24 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A Nexxt Exclusive in partnership with TAtech.org, the boys are onsite to interview Aman Brar, CEO of Canvas, a text messaging recruiting tool. In...
Indeed is Sneaky as Hell & Ripple Hopes to Topple LinkedIn
19 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Indeed is quietly making some big changes for users, a new report says recruiters don’t give a damn about AI (yet) and there’s another ...
Firing Squad – HoneIt
17 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Livingston, CEO at Honeit Software not only faces the Firing Squad but the prospect of a real fire during our recording session. Things can get...
iCIMS Buys a Trojan Horse
12 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode, iCIMS buys a Trojan horse, Walmart adds a little sugar to make the layoff medicine go down and hiQ gets some good news regar...
Tale of Two Strategies: Google’s Inclusion & Indeed’s Exclusion
06 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The holidays are over, and business is business. The boys are back at it this week, pulling no punches … just like you like it. Believe it or not, i...
2018 Predictions
02 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A Nexxt Exclusive in partnership with TAtech.org, the boys enlist help from industry expert Tim Sackett to come up with predictions for 2018. Fea...
Here’s Our Naughty & Nice Lists for 2017
22 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve made a list. We’ve checked it twice. And here’s our list of who’s been naughty and who’s been nice this year. It’s the perfect combi...
Indeed Comes Clean, ZipRecruiter Is On The Hunt & Your Job Titles Aren’t Amusing Us
17 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Come all ye’ faithful if you seek all the latest news and commentary from the world of recruitment. This week the boys take on Indeed, ZipRecruiter ...
‘Tis the Season: Stockings Full of Coal, Layoffs and Lawsuits
10 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The boys are deckin’ the halls and wreckin’ the pod with a slew of industry news. Turns out, the holidays are a great time to pass out pink slips ...
Talkin’ hiQ vs. LinkedIn with Mark Weidick, CEO @ hiQ – A Nexxt Exclusive Podcast
27 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a Nexxt EXCLUSIVE The Chad and Cheese Podcast where we’re diving headlong into the hiQ versus LinkedIn court battle starring and intervie...
Giving Thanks and Roasting the Recruiting Industry’s Top Turkeys
24 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this Thanksgiving edition of The Chad & Cheese Podcast, the boys have some mad shoutouts, especially for tweeting fans and feisty Indeed employees....
FIRING SQUAD: Jeff Dolan, SVP of Growth at FlashRecruit
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Dolan walks in, sits down, and takes his chances by pitching FlashRecruit to The Chad and Cheese Podcast with the possibility of facing disgrace ...
Google Sticks It To Indeed (Again) and Anonymity is Under Fire at Glassdoor (Again)
17 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the holiday season, but the recruitment news rages on. The boys cover a variety of topics this week, including: Google for Jobs unveils four ...
Talkin’ Vet Recruiting, LinkedIn’s Leapfrogging, Entelo’s Heavy Hitting & ipply’s Shuttering
10 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The boys recorded this week’s show on Veteran’s Day in the U.S., so vet recruiting is top-of-mind. Considering Chad is an Army Vet, how could it n...
‘Edu-taining’ Interview with Susan Vitale, CMO at iCIMS – A Nexxt Exclusive Podcast
08 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this Nexxt exclusive, in partnership with TAtech, Chad and Cheese bring industry veteran Susan Vitale, CMO at iCIMS, on to discuss iCIMS’ ...
Can We Just Stop with the ‘Tinder for Jobs’ and the Video Resumes Already, Please?
01 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Halloween’s hangover has the boys ranting about some trends that just won’t die: ‘Tinder for Jobs’ and video resumes. Startups Workey and O’...
Firing Squad – Crowded.com
31 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this Halloween edition of The Chad and Cheese Podcast, Chad and Joel welcome Howie Schwartz, CEO of Crowded to the Firing Squad. Howie believes Cro...
Tech Killing Fields – Can Recruiters Survive? | Smashfly Cries Wolf | HiQ crowdfunds legal $$ against LinkedIn
27 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chad enlists Tim Sackett – from The Tim Sackett Project at TimSackett.com – to fill in while Joel sits on the beach, sipping margarita’s while...
Job Board Founder Has a Date with Prison | Google Hire’s Big Letdown
22 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of The Chad and Cheese Podcast. This week the boys are coming at you on a Sunday morning (more on that in the podcast), whi...
The Race for Recruiting Chatbot Glory Heats Up & Facebook’s Offensive on Recruitment Marches On
13 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What’s up, party people? On this week’s podcast, the plot between HiQ and LinkedIn thickens, the race to recruiting chatbot glory continues and ma...
Drinkin’ the LinkedIn Kool-Aid while Furniture Companies Buy Employment Sites
06 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What a week. LinkedIn’s annual event took place in Nashville, Tennessee and it was an opportunity for them to drop a big ol’ poop sandwich in the ...
LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner Keynoting Talent Connect 2017
04 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
LinkedIn’s CEO from Talent Connect 2017 discussing the state of the company. Raw and unedited.
Newspaper Partnerships are Cool Again, Indeed Gets Warm-and-Fuzzy, Snapchat Recruiting Heats Up
22 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s edition of HR’s Most Dangerous Podcast, the boys are getting geared up for their LIVE Podcast in Denver next week at the TATech con...
Firing Squad: GoodTime.io
19 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Goodtime.io’s CEO, Ahryun Moon stares down the barrel of the Chad and Cheese Firing Squad podcast. Firing Squad is a raw podcast focused on allowing...
Chad Throws Shade at ZipRecruiter, Crowded Brings Back the Dead, Women Workers vs. Google
15 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As we hit the midpoint of September, the news stories are flowing fast, so the boys cover a lot of ground this week. First, Chad goes off on ZipRecrui...
Interview: Candidate.Guru on Elevated Careers Acquisition
09 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The guys have given eHarmony’s Elevated Careers a hard time from the first podcast. With the belief that candidate matching is more pixie dust and u...
Google Hire is Killing ATSs, Skype is Killing Video Interviewing, Dominos is Killing Delivery Drivers
08 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The first show to follow Labor Day weekend finds the guys especially salty and feisty. They start the show with a rant about Dice that follows up one ...
Live from PracticeLink
29 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the boys broadcasted live from Hinton, West Virginia at PracticeLink‘s annual corporate event. We had a great time and loved visiting We...
Interview with Dice’s CEO
25 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The boys were really excited to recently chat with Dice’s CEO, Mike Durney. As listeners will know, DHI, Dice’s parent, has been through an intere...
Interview – Mark Weidick of hiQ Labs and the Case Against LinkedIn
23 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
One of the hottest stories in recruitment right now is the legal battle between hiQ and LinkedIn. If you’re not familiar with the case, here’s a ...
Firing Squad – Vervoe
22 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Startup Vervoe faces the Chad and Cheese Firing Squad. Firing Squad is a podcast which allows a startup company to either showcase their technology, p...
eHarmony’s Elevated Careers Finally Finds a Match | LinkedIn is Building Pipelines | Facebook is for Poachers
18 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lots going on this week. Dog days of summer be damned. EHarmony’s Elevated Careers found a buyer in this company and a little crow has to be eaten. ...
HR is the New PR | Ladders Gets Its TMZ On | Is VCV the Future of Recruiting? | Werk Does it Differently
11 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Another big week. The boys cover a grassroots campaign by HiQ to fight-off LinkedIn. Are you in? Indeed has gone shopping, acquiring Interviewed and t...
LinkedIn is Out for Blood, Indeed is Dining Out and Dice is Out of Gas
07 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The summer of love rolls on, boys and girls. This week, LinkedIn is out for blood, Dice hits rock bottom and there ain’t no party like a microchippi...
CareerBuilder Gets a Divorce | Employers are Microchipping Workers | JazzHR is Jazzed
28 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Giddyup kids! Episode 19 is in the books. Chad and Cheese are hot on Google Hire’s exploding interest and latest product demo. Chad breaks it down l...
Google Hire Officially Launches, Indeed and LinkedIn Aren’t Taking the News Sitting Down
20 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The boys are back after the 4th holiday and Chad trekking to Oregon for college visitations. And it’s a good thing, because the news was hot-and-hea...
Talking Millennials, Employment Brand and Employee Assessments with the CEO of Wonderlic
14 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
While Chad is on vacation in Oregon and consuming enough craft brews to hydrate a frat party, Joel Cheesman is left to hold down the fort. Listeners w...
Jumping into Indeed’s Walled Garden Against Google | Canvas’ Text Recruiting | Deep Thoughts from Jobg8
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Still a little hungover from the 4th of July holiday, the boys dive into Indeed’s walled garden against Google, wonder if old school job board SEO i...
With special guest Bill Fanning: Are you embracing or fighting Google? | Why is CareerBuilder snuggling up to Google? | Does anyone care about compliance?
30 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Where’s Cheese? Chad brings recruiting industry veteran and America’s Job Exchange GM Bill Fanning to the mic while Joel takes a much-needed vacat...
Live from Jobg8 Job Board Summit in New Orleans (There Will Be Drinks)
21 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The boys headed down the The Big Easy this week for a live podcast at the Jobg8 Job Board Summit. As usual, they weren’t so “easy” with the comm...
McDonald’s Goes All-In on Snapchat | Amazon Wants to Buy Slack | Entelo Gets $20 Million
16 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What started out as a slow week certainly turned up as time passed. Entelo received $20 million in funding, and the boys discuss what’s really behin...
Workey and Clustree Get Paid | TaskRabbit Grows | Kalo is ‘Badass’ | Olivia & Mya Get Competition | Recruitics Gets All Analyticky
09 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It was a busy week. Economic megatrends continue to take hold. There are more job openings than ever before, and that has invigorated the gig economy ...
Live from TA Tech Summit – All Things Google for Jobs
01 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The boys were at TA Tech Summit in Minneapolis June 1, and did a live broadcast on all things Google … we’re talkin’ Google Cloud Jobs API, Go...
CareerBuilder Gets a Haircut | Snapchatting Gets Someone an Internship | Indeed Strikes Back in 'Battle of the Buttons'
30 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the boys discuss a big discount in the acquisition price tag for CareerBuilder based on a Reuters report. Someone actually got a job opport...
Google for Jobs Launches ... What the Hell Does Indeed.com Do Now?
19 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Oldies but a goodie! It was a big week. The boys cover Google for Jobs officially launching and ask, "What the hell does Indeed do now? Talent.io gets...
CareerBuilder’s Revenue Drop | Microsoft’s Workplace-of-the-Future is Scaring the Hell Out of Us | Google’s Virtual Reality Play | Mya Gets Funding
12 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Mother’s Day Edition! This week, the boys are scared sh!#less at Microsoft’s workplace-of-the-future, Google makes a virtual reality play an...
Google Testing Indeed-Killer, Dice Cuts Off Its Arm To Save Its Soul, 84 Lumber Recruitment Ads
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It was a big week. We finally have visual proof that Google is testing an Indeed-style job search, Ladders looks like it wants to become an online new...
LinkedIn’s Future | Slack Eavesdropping | Vervoe’s Automated Interviews | Job Boards Aren’t Dead (Mostly)
28 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the boy wonders discuss LinkedIn’s ongoing ubiquity in news and finally catching up to Facebook and Twitter on this one key offering, ea...
DICE | Snapchat’s ‘Snapplications’ | LinkedIn | Completed | LinkedIn | Smashfly | HiringSolved
21 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the boys discuss how no one apparently wants to buy DICE and its portfolio of sites and what it could mean for CareerBuilder’s reported s...
Google Jobs API | Glassdoor Court Case | Beamery | Teamable | Crelate | Google Hire
14 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On Episode 6, the boys bookend the episode with Google, starting a discussion about the Google Jobs API and ending with the news this week that Google...
Bloom Automation’s ‘Trimmigrants’ | Indeed | TheLadders | CareerBuilder | LinkedIn | Nymeria
03 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chad’s really ticked off in this week’s episode, as you can tell by the “E” rating on this show. In this week’s episode of HR’s most dang...
Purple Squirrel | TextRecruit | Facebook | Period Leave | Talentegy | Automation
24 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, HR’s most dangerous podcast takes on a variety of topics, starting with “period leave,” avoiding most of the landmines this topic inv...
Brilent | Uber | Robots | SourceCon | Iron Fist | Automated Recruiting
24 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The robots are coming! HR’s most dangerous podcast is back with - a slight line-up change this week - legendary sourcer/recruiter Jim Stroud steppin...
Elevated Careers by eHarmony | Indeed.com | Slack Attack | JobSpotting App | WorkHere | 21.co
17 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the boys first take a trip down Memory Lane, discussing the history of job matching and how eHarmony can’t even make it work. Can anyone?...
LinkedIn Rant | 84 Lumber | SnapChat IPO | Facebook Jobs
10 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the boys discuss the problem with LinkedIn’s lazy users, 84 Lumber’s Super Bowl advertising campaign, Snap’s IPO and its potential im...
TRAILER: The Chad and Cheese Podcast
28 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
You have questions... What exactly is The Chad and Cheese Podcast? Why should I listen to The Chad and Cheese Podcast? Where have The Chad and Cheese ...
Introduction
28 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chad Sowash and Joel Cheesman introduce their new podcast.