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.
The "brand people" get the budget, the conferences, the glory, the press. The "people people" work in the background. How do we build a powerful connection between the two? Panelists answer the tough questions about brand + people, recorded LIVE during Symphony Talent's Transform with The Chad & Cheese - HR’s Most Dangerous Podcast and special guest, Co-founder and CEO of CULT Collective and Co-founder of Forbes rated "Must Attend" event The Gather of Cult Brands, Chris Kneeland. Let Symphony Talent help activate your brand and keep relationships at the heart of your Talent Strategy. For more information, visit SymphonyTalent.com
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.
Welcome to Death Match, North America 2020, GRAND CHAMPION EDITION which took place at TAtech on May 19. For all of you NOOBS who have never experienced Death Match - Death Match is a competition which pits 4 innovative, early-stage companies against one-another, only one can win and emerge with the coveted Death Match Chain of Champions. This Chad and Cheese Death Match episode features Aida Fazylova founder and CEO at XOR that's X-O-R people. COVID-19 might've locked us all in our homes but never fear! The home bars are always stocked, pints were flowing and Chad and Cheese questions and slurring snark was flying. Luckily Joveo's CEO, KJ, stepped in to provide a smart and sensible judging voice to this TAtech event... Enjoy while Aida reaches down deep for her inner Ivan Drago pitches XOR, then ducks, bobs, weaves and lands a knock performance during this virtual Death Match event.
How about some good news? - The Supreme Court of the United States protects L.G.B.T.Q. people against workplace discrimination AND defended DACA. - Target raised its minimum wage, - Shaquille O'Neal is backing a new gig platform and, well, OK, that's most of the good news. Otherwise - COVID is still a thing - ERE layoffs and almost 20% of Americans are pouring Clorox on food, which they think will save them from coronavirus. As always, the podcast is powered by Jobvite, JobAdx and Sovren.
This podcast was recorded pre-covid and at the base of the Canadian Rockies in Banff Canada with Paul Meehan, Creator, Owner & Brand Manager, NÜTRL Vodka Soda right after a little company named Anheuser-Busch acquired him. You can hear the pep in Paul's step during this Cult Brand podcast. Enjoy this Symphony Talent joint, SmashflyX style :)
Getting old sucks. My back hurts just writing that sentence. Anyway, author, speaker and all-around solid dude Vinay Singh believes work really sucks for the aging. He feels so strongly that he even wrote a book entitled, "YOUR FUTURE IN PIECES: The Brutal Truth: How Ageism & Income Inequality Are Destroying America." Sounds like the perfect topic for a podcast about all-things-employment, huh? Enter Chad & Cheese to get to the bottom of all this ... but not before a glass of prune juice, because staying regular at our age during an interview is paramount. **This podcast was recorded a few short months before the COVID shit hit the fan. Needless to say, the Ageism conversation will have a much larger impact than we originally thought. Enjoy this Sovren Exclusive
Welcome to Death Match, North America 2020, which took place at TAtech on May 19. For all of you NOOBS who have never experienced Death Match - Death Match is a competition which pits 4 innovative, early-stage companies against one-another, only one can win and emerge with the coveted Death Match Chain of Champions. This Chad and Cheese Death Match episode features a Canadian Bradley Clark Co-founder at RecTxt. COVID-19 might've locked us all in our homes but never fear! The home bars are always stocked, pints were flowing and Chad and Cheese questions and slurring snark was flying. Luckily Joveo's CEO, KJ, stepped in to provide a smart and sensible judging voice to this TAtech event... Enjoy while Bradley pitches RecTxt, says sorry about 27 times, then ducks, bobs, and weaves for the balance of his 15-minutes on the virtual Death Match stage.
If you love a heavier Chad & Cheese - and we're not talking about Joel's midsection - then this one's for you. On this week's episode: LinkedIn made the wrong decision... Again... Reddit CEO and Portland Chief send a major BLM message adidas swings and misses IBM saves face and in our OK boomer segment: TikTok! As always, this podcast is heroically powered by Sovren, JobAdx, and Jobvite.
Every once and awhile, we get a startup on Firing Squad who claims to do it all, or at least almost do it all (none of them can deliver a case of Pabst with your new hire, but whatever). Talent Alpha out of Poland is once such company. Calling it the human cloud, they'll find, screen and schedule your next IT pro, promising to give you access to a previously untapped talent pool of 700,000 experienced and project-ready IT specialists working in 25,000 small & medium-sized IT Services Companies across Europe. One of your fearless podcasters loves the idea; the other one, not-as-much. Checkout founder and CEO Przemek Berendt bring his A-game to The Squad. Brought to you by our friends at Pandologic, bringing programmatic since 2007 now that's a yottabyte of job data! What the hell is a yottabyte?
Google for Jobs isn't the only new face / big brand in town. The boys continue their interview with Venkat Janapareddy, CEO of Jobiak, and talk: - Google for jobs Global adoption - Does video content even matter - Facebook is outspending Google on the jobs product - Indeed is in a real pickle - It's all about the real-time data Brought to you by Chad and Cheese - HR's Most Dangerous Podcast. Subscribe at chadcheese.com.
New LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky took the helm last Monday and by Thursday LinkedIn's racist employees were climbing out of their holes. On Thursday LinkedIn held a virtual global town hall to address the nationwide social unrest sparked by the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. #LISTEN Big thanks Recruitology for supporting The Shred. Recruitology has the latest in machine learning and programmatic advertising technology so get your jobs on best of breed niche sites and on top job boards at recruitology.com/employers.
Welcome to Death Match, North America 2020, which took place at TAtech on May 19. For all of you NOOBS who have never experienced Death Match - Death Match is a competition which pits 4 innovative, early-stage companies against one-another, only one can win and emerge with the coveted Death Match Chain of Champions. This Chad and Cheese Death Match episode feautures Adam Chambers founder and CEO at Applichat. COVID-19 might've locked us all in our homes but never fear! The home bars are always stocked, pints were flowing and Chad and Cheese questions and slurring snark was flying. Luckily Joveo's CEO, KJ, stepped in to provide a smart and sensible judging voice to this TAtech event... Enjoy while Adam picthes Applichat, then ducks, bobs, and weaves for the balance of his 15-minutes on the virtual Death Match stage.
Things are getting a tad heavy, huh? Maybe you just need some Chad & Cheese to make it all better? On this week's show: SmashFly gets an X, Some Good News for Communo Facebook says, "Lower pay for you!" Andrew Yang says 3 day weekends rule! Spain marches toward equity and UBI Who gives a crap? Come off the ledge, pour a cold one and relax. Just let your ears do all the work. As usual, The Chad & Cheese Podcast is powered by Sovren, JobAdx and Jobvite.
It's The Shred a mini Chad and Cheese bite of Breaking News -- This is Chad Sowash The Shred is brought to you by Recruitology -- Recruitology brings artificial intelligence - that's AI kids - to job posting and distribution for employers large and small. Post once, pay once, and have your jobs automatically distributed to the right sites where you’ll get the most bang for your buck. Start posting your jobs using Recruitology today at recruitology.com/employers ON TO THE NEWS: Symphony Talent consolidates! #Listen...
Welcome to Death Match, North America 2020, which took place at TAtech on May 19. For all of you NOOBS who have never experienced Death Match - Death Match is a competition which pits 4 innovative, early-stage companies against one-another, only one can win and emerge with the coveted Death Match Chain of Champions. This Chad and Cheese Death Match episode feautures Scot Sessions co-founder and CEO at TalVitsa. COVID-19 might've locked us all in our homes but never fear! The home bars are always stocked, pints were flowing and Chad and Cheese questions and slurring snark was flying. Luckily Joveo's CEO, KJ, stepped in to provide a smart and sensible juding voice to this TAtech event... Enjoy while Scot picthes TalVista and then ducks, bobs, and weaves for the balance of his 15-minutes on the virtual Death Match stage.
When you want insights to big industry moves you go to the insiders. In this episode The Chad & Cheese are joined by phenom, Death Match Europe winner, and former CEO of newly acquired Opening.io, Andreea Wade. Andreea dragged along iCIMS' technical commander-in-chief Al "Witness Protection" Smith to discuss how Opening.io's team, vision, and tech will play into iCIMS' future. Enjoy this NEXXT exclusive.
It's The Chad & Cheese Birthday episode, which was totally overshadowed by: - Entelo kicking their founder & CEO to the curb - Go1.com, VergeSense, & MedWing get cash - Douche Marketing shaming session - Marketing Master Class by WalMart and Nvidia just redefined blasphemy The market is going crazy over tech which is why you should be researching, visiting, and calling companies like our sponsors Jobvite, Sovren, and JobAdx.
Sandra Preyale has graced the halls and lead HR at Christian Dior, L'Oreal, Coach, LVMH, and Amazon. Why leave a history of big brands and take the Chief People Officer mantle at Aegis Living? Because it's squishy. Squishy provides purpose and goes beyond mere HR, Talent Acquisition, and Brand. Because squishy is REAL. Enjoy this Cult Brand podcast, supported by Smashfly, which was recorded at the base of a mountain in Banff, Canada before the world turned upside down. 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
It's May 27th, the day that brought us Chad Sowash. Bow down!
Doing the dirty work isn't easy, but industry education and being a change agent is a bitch. The boys continue their interview with Venkat Janapareddy, CEO of Jobiak, and talk: - Google for jobs PPC? - Indeed - "the new Monster" - Ditch the schema - The Struggle is Real! - The Domain Matters - DUH! Brought to you by Chad and Cheese - HR's Most Dangerous Podcast. Subscribe at chadcheese.com.
As the world begins to open up from corona, it's refreshing to see companies in our space act like nothing ever happened, like Jobvite and iCIMS who are on the attack. Of course, there are still those like Indeed, UberWorks, and most of the Fortune 500 who keep tripping over themselves. We cover all this, as well as a new round of investment and acquisitions in our space. Enjoy and show sponsors Jobvite, Sovren, and JobAdx some much-needed love ... as long as it's from 6-feet away, that is.
The world is working from home and the WFH phenomenon looks like it just might be here to stay, as companies like Twitter and Google are in for the long haul. So who better to bring on the podcast than Robert Ruff of Sovren, whose company has been WFH for over 10 years. He's spilling the good, the bad, and the ugly on this Sovren exclusive. Enjoy ... and wash your pajamas, they stink!
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 Poach.
Newly minted iCIMS CEO Steve Lucas has had quite a whirlwind since heading-up the company in February. Aside from a global pandemic, which led to a round of layoffs, the company has gotten snuggly with Microsoft and acquired hot startup and Death Match WINNER Opening.io. So, the boys obviously had to get him on the horn and find out the 411. Oh, and longtime friend of the show Susan Vitale, the company's CMO, joined in the fun too. Enjoy this exclusive podcast brought to you by Nexxt.
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