The Chad & Cheese Podcast

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 $100M Series D raise Larocque's "Money Shot" index reports biggest quarter EVER and unicorns aplenty The boys also talk more "innovation" at Dice, Uber has bigger problems than we expected MLB kicks Georgia where it hurts United Airlines gets big appl...

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The Chad & Cheese continue the well-pedigreed conversations, this time with a CEO/cofounder reppin' Harvard, Dartmouth, and MIT. Pymetrics, Frida Polli joins the boys on a quest for a better understanding of personality tests, matching of soft skills to job openings, and the threats that A.I. backlash has on businesses like hers. There even tips for female entrepreneurs. Anything this smart has go...

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: Sprint recruiting applies the AGILE methodology to recruiting, enabling recruiting organizations to work smarter and more efficiently. It is built upon four principles to combat the pitfalls of recruiting. And oh, sister, do the boys dig into those...

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 come to light, big companies say, “Go back to work,” Higher ed gets serious about vaccinations. LinkedIn takes aim at popular startup Clubhouse, Buy or Sell with 1) Celentia 2) Crosschq and 3) DataPeople while Ladders get “innovative,” meaning they’ve f...

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.

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 Amplify, and Fast Company contributor. If you don't know Lars, well, let us introduce you. Hot off the presses of his latest book, the boys dig into everything swimming around in Lars' head at the moment. And trust us, it's a deep, deep dive. Enjoy,...

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. Expert Neil Harrison joins the boys to discuss brand strategy in the age of COVID. Needless to say, it's a masterclass in how to resuscitate your employment brand and give it a much-needed vaccine shot right in the arm. Questions: Will making vaccines m...

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 covering this story, as well as game-changing news from Zoom, Buy or Sell with Fetcher, Unicorn Lattice, and Visage, a 28-year-old earns $300k+ on Fiverr doing what? Goldman Sachs continues the beatings, while CitiGroiup optics soar. ... Wait did we mention rumors...

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.

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 luckily for everyone, he's back on the podcast. Now with Freedom Mortgage, Rick heads up TA and, as usual, he doesn't pull any punches on recruiting tech he likes and doesn't like. It's a must-listen for anyone shopping around for the latest industry t...

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 at work is almost impossible. That's why startups like Spontea Coffee are so interesting, they bring together online videos with a spontaneous human connection. But do they have the chops to survive the Firing Squad? Being recent winners of the HR Ha...

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, that really happened. Hard to top that news, but.. Uber finally treating drivers like human beings in the UK, SmartRecruiters getting smarter, Charter kicks wages in the ass LinkedIn suffering an identity crisis WeWork? Nope, I'm gonna WorkChew! Dice i...

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.

Performance-based ads have become a highly-adopted and powerful tool for Marketing departments throughout the world, and yet it hasn't in Recruitment Marketing. So, what is the state of programmatic job advertising in the recruitment world?  Madeline Laurano, Founder of Aptitude Research shares information from newly published research entitled The State of Programmatic Job Advertising.  Are perfo...

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-year-old practice. In most organizations, today money is thrown at training, messaging, and an inability to match one's brand articulation with reality. Enter John Graham, a diversity leader with a recruitment marketing and branding background, not to m...

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...

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.

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...

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 ali...

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 pow...

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 def...

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...

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.

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...