The Chad & Cheese Podcast

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 talked about technologies. Thad Price, CEO of Talroo, formerly Jobs2Careers, talks rebranding and the future of job distribution, and Amit Chauhan, CEO of JobAdX, discusses programmatic ad buying. Enjoy.

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 Guinness brewery. For this week’s episode, we chat with Terry Baker from PandoLogic and Adam Gordon from CandidateID. Enjoy. And don’t forget about our sponsors: America’s Job Exchange, Sovren, Ratedly, Nexxt, Jobs2Careers and Catch 22 Consulting.

Industry veteran Tim Sackett discusses the trials and tribulations of being sentenced to Indeed “jail.” You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll long for an alternative to Indeed. Enjoy.

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’re talkin’ execs jumping ship, layoffs, angry sales people and a lot of bitter ‘Builders. Tune in for all the latest. Plus: Indeed Crowd is a failure Ladders tries its hand at referrals Snagajob is now Snag … here’s why Monster goes 2-pane What do Textio, Uncommon.co and Indeed have in common? Oh, Canada! Indeed acquires Workopolis And lots more. It’s the first show to go over an hour, but we think you’ll be rewarded for your time. Just listen to it in 2X and cut it down to 30 mins. Boom! And check out our sponsors: America’s Job Exchange, Sovren, JobAdX and Ratedly. No dumpster fires at these companies .

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 buzzword at every conference and practically every blog post online. RoboRecruiter thinks chatbots are not only the future, but the present as well. We’ll see about that. Chad & Cheese bring in CEO Chris Collins and put him through the Firing Squad to see if chatbots truly are all that, and if RoboRecruiter should be added to your shopping list. Hang tight! And be sure to visit Firing Squad’s exclusive sponsorship partner Jobs2Careers, a company that could make Firing Squad its bitch.

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? Luckily between naps Joel was able to get some quick interviews from: VideoMyJob – Kristen Graham, Co-founder YouVisit – Erik Carlson, National Ad Director Seekout – Anoop Gupta, CEO AllyO – Ankit Somani. Co-founder Look for these companies to get in front of the FIRING SQUAD very soon. Give it up for our sponsors. Lots of wallet share love should be bestowed upon America’s Job Exchange, Sovren, Ratedly and JobAdX – only one X. Enjoy!

Another Nexxt exclusive podcast, the boys sit down with two of the hottest TA tech companies in the vendor space: Clinch and Smashfly. Enjoy.

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, let’s be honest, deserve it. Here’s a taste: Indeed’s new commercial has us scratching our heads and cussing the death of a great tune. Oh yeah, Indeed official raised prices too Google baby-steps into candidate search, but we suspect bigger ambitions LinkedIn gets its Snapchat on A NYC councilman has lost his damned mind Old people keep getting screwed Weed continues to be a magnet for investment cash, even in online recruitment … and a boatload more, boys and girls. Enjoy, and give our sponsors your wallets. Because, we said so. Lots of love to America’s Job Exchange, Sovren, Ratedly and NKOTB, JobAdX.

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.co and how it hopes to break through the crowded space of recruitment technology. The company says it uses AI technology trained on over 50 million career paths and analyzes applicant resumes for hard skills, like expertise in data science or kinesiology, by looking for factors like degrees attained or years in a role; soft skills, like creativity and entrepreneurship, are found by extrapolating skills necessary for success in past jobs. Chad & Cheese put Teg Grenager, CEO, through the gauntlet and see if his company has what it takes to make it in the world of recruiting. The companies that put $18 million in their company recently certainly hope so. And after listening, be sure to checkout Jobs2Careers, exclusive sponsor of the show. Jobs 2 Awesome, more like it!

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 Balkansky, VP Cloud Recruiting Solutions, present. A bigger treat was the opportunity to interview Bogomil at the social event from the Guinness brewery in Dublin. Enjoy.

The boys take their act across the Atlantic for TAtech Europe, conveniently scheduled around St. Patrick’s Day. Sláinte!

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 lottery Glassdoor sends out conflicting messages about a price increase Burger King torches traditional recruitment advertising Jobu Jobs is the new “Tinder for jobs” player Activision coddles its Millennial employees … and a friggin’ bunch more, yo! Like always, go show out sponsors some love. America’s Job Exchange, Sovren, Ratedly, Catch 22 Consulting and our newest sponsor, JobAdX rock the house! And special thanks to Nexxt and Jobs2Careers for sponsoring our monthly shows.

March Madness is podcast madness, apparently. On this week’s episode, the “badasses” are talkin’: Google keeps kickin’ ass and takin’ names in employment tech Bloomberg says Glassdoor is headed toward IPO country Facebook eyes global market with jobs RealMatch is now PandoLogic, er, pandoIQ The new CareerBuilder looks pretty much like the old CareerBuilder, minus the orange Chucks Monster’s new ‘hype’ video Cash keeps flowing: Peakon, Nomad Health … and a shit-ton more. Enjoy and give our sponsors – Sovren, America’s Job Exchange, Ratedly, Nexxt, Jobs2Careers and Catch 22 Consulting – a blank check.

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 boys break down all the latest news. WorkHere pivots Find.jobs launches (is it now officially a failed experiment?) HireMaturity launches. Eons 2.0? Dynamic Signal get $36.5 million Vettery gets acquired for a rumored $100 million StatusToday scares the hell out of us! And a Halloween beat down that ended badly … very badly. Enjoy. And visit our kickass sponsors: America’s Job Exchange, Sovren, Nexxt, Ratedly, Catch 22 Consulting and Job2Careers. Feel the love!

The Chad and Cheese listeners know that Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning has taken center stage as the bright and shiny objects of the recruitment industry over the last year, but what about the entrance of ​Blockchain and Cryptocurrency? What the Hell does Blockchain and Cryptocurrency have to do with RECRUITING? We haven’t a damned clue which is why we have Jeff Tennery the CEO of Moonlighting.com is on the podcast to answer questions like: – Why do we need Blockchain Recruiting? – What could cryptocurrency mean to the world talent economy? – What the Hell is a Moonbit? – and … Is Moonlighting backed by Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd? Don’t forget this edu-tainment is made possible by the gang over at Nexxt and in the spirit of saving some currency (in dollars) – YOU can receive 25% off your first Text2Hire campaign by visiting nexxt.com/chadandcheese25. You are recruiting with text messages… Aren’t you?!?

Waking the dead in your resume database is all the rage. Companies like Crowded (Firing Squad alumni), Lever and ConveyIQ (formerly Take The Interview) are getting noticed for taking the best strategies in marketing and bringing them to recruitment. Candidate.ID is another company looking to take on this challenge and solve the problem of keeping candidates engaged and warm when a new opportunity arises instead of starting all over again to attract new talent. Chad and Cheese put the company’s CEO and co-founder Adam Gordon through the wringer to see if his company has the mettle to thrive in this new, competitive landscape. Will he get the gun? Gotta listen to find out. And be sure to checkout Jobs2Careers, exclusive sponsor of the show. Jobs 2 Awesome, more like it!

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, ZipRecruiter eyes a new round of funding to the tune of $50 million, valuing the company at $1 billion, or the cost of both Monster and CareerBuilder put together. Plus: Recruiters calls out Indeed for three of their recent updates An Indeed employee goes off on Glassdoor Soda Stream got the ad right, but the execution blows RealMatch launches pandoIQ, and agencies are losing their minds A bunch of companies just got funding (hint, employee engagement is still hot) Workday gets generous. And much more. While listening, visit our sponsors: America’s Job Exchange, Sovren, Ratedly, Catch22 Consulting and the Campaign to Elect Chad & Cheese to President … of Monster.

We did an ad for this year’s Super Bowl. Monster’s going to love it!

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-time A very special ad from Chad & Cheese Super Bowl picks … and much, much more As always, visit our sponsors. They’re amazeballs. Sovren, America’s Jobs Exchange, Ratedly and Catch 22 Consulting rule!

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 addition to covering a wide array of topics, including the power of SMS, the benefits or building a deep data pool powered by communications, and exploring what comes after messaging, the guys have a great time. Enjoy. Looking to leverage text message marketing to recruit candidates? Checkout Text2Hire from Nexxt and get your first Text2Hire campaign for 25% OFF! Just go to ChadCheese.com and click on the Nexxt logo in the sponsor area or www.nexxt.com/chadandcheese25.

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 mobile app hoping to take down LinkedIn (good luck with that Sparky). It’s a barrel full of monkeys, enjoy. Plus: Automation is going to hit this industry really hard Recruiters don’t care all that much about AI Recruiters really care about diversity recruiting Is it profiling or targeting? As always, show our sponsors some love. They rock this bitch! America’s Job Exchange, Sovren, Ratedly, Nexxt and Catch 22 Consulting.

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 a little hectic when Chad & Cheese take the mic. Will Nick stand in the pocket, take his licks and score a BIG APPLAUSE? Or will he crack under the pressure and face The Chad & Cheese FIRING SQUAD?!? You’ll have to listen to find out! We also welcome a new sponsor: Jobs2Careers. Welcome aboard, J2C!

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 regarding its epic battle with LinkedIn. You don’t want to miss a second, but if you do, we can still be friends. What else? Here you go: Harver gets $4.2 million to bring unbiased hiring to the masses Iceland makes a certain employment practice illegal Walmart has its cake and wants to eat it too (not so fast!) Shoutouts to Sling, Monster, and the #ChadCheese faithful … and much more. Tune in for free now! Give all your money to our sponsors instead: Sovren, America’s Job Exchange, Ratedly, Nexxt and Catch 22 Consulting.

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, in addition to talking Google, Indeed and others, Monster (remember them?) get mad airtime. Here’s a breakdown. Monster’s new ad strategy Albert the Frog (don’t ask) Indeed lays the smackdown TextRecruit partners There’s a new addition to the “steaming hot pile of garbage” And must more, as always. Listen now, and visit our valued sponsors: America’s Job Exchange, Sovren, Ratedly and newly pimped Catch 22 Consulting.

A Nexxt Exclusive in partnership with TAtech.org, the boys enlist help from industry expert Tim Sackett to come up with predictions for 2018. Featured are Glassdoor, Monster, CareerBuilder, Slack, and much, much more. There’s even a prediction for 2020, so get ready to get woke, mutha huggers! Looking to leverage text message marketing to recruit candidates? Checkout Text2Hire from Nexxt and get your first Text2Hire campaign for 25% OFF! It’s a 2018 resolution gift from Chad and Cheese. Just go to ChadCheese.com and click on the Nexxt logo in the sponsor area or www.nexxt.com/chadandcheese25.

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 combination of sweet-and-sour for you to enjoy with a stout eggnog and pudding made of fig. Special holiday cheer for our amazing sponsors: America’s Job Exchange, Sovren, Nexxt and Ratedly.

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 and crappy job descriptions. It’s not personal, it’s just Chad & Cheese, HR’s most dangerous podcast. Need more? Yes, Indeed is raising prices … here’s what you need to know. ZipRecruiter is getting into the private label job board business … but why? Stop using these buzzwords in your job postings. AI, AI and more AI … the latest investments you need to know. An introduction to initial coin offerings (ICO) in online recruitment. The boys would prefer to sip egg nog under the mistletoe, but duty calls. And as always, get on over to our sponsors and show ’em some love: Sovren, America’s Job Exchange, Nexxt and Ratedly.

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 and head to court. Feel the cheer! On this week’s show, Chad & Cheese talk about the following: DHI, Dice’s parent company, is selling off it’s albatross of a job board portfolio and going to court. Woo.io, Param.ai and IBM’s Watson keep the AI / chatbot train rollin’. Valley companies are paying models to attend holiday parties (can you say ‘tone deaf’?). Layoffs hit two well-know TA tech solutions. Boom goes the dynamite! It’s a Sunday hangover edition of the show, as Chad dials in from sunny California. Egg nog, West Coast-style, baby! Enjoy, and as always, throw buckets of money at our sponsors, guaranteed to be coal-in-your-stocking free: Ratedly, America’s Job Exchange and Sovren.

It’s a Nexxt EXCLUSIVE The Chad and Cheese Podcast where we’re diving headlong into the hiQ versus LinkedIn court battle starring and interview with CEO of hiQ Labs, Mark Weidick. It’s also a lactose-free event – Joel Cheesman (Cheese) is out on assignment or maybe he just found a comfortable place to curl up? In this episode Mark and Chad talk: – Update on their David v. Goliath court battle – Negative industry (Global Innovation) impact if hiQ loses – Scraping, bots, how can we ID bad from good actors? – FlipDog’s name is used in phishing vain – Are we losing control? Start-ups in court? Net neutrality? – Why are other – affected – companies in the fetal position instead of fighting? – CrowdJustice – crowd funding legal battles … and last but never least Nexxt gives Mark a reason to think his family might be ducking him during the holidays. None of this would be possible without the gang over at Nexxt and in the spirit of giving – YOU can get 25% off your first Text2Hire campaign by visiting www.nexxt.com/chadandcheese25. HAPPY HOLIDAYS from The Chad and Cheese Podcast!

On this Thanksgiving edition of The Chad & Cheese Podcast, the boys have some mad shoutouts, especially for tweeting fans and feisty Indeed employees. Big fun. Then, like a finely balanced plate of meat and potatoes, the guys go through their Top 5 lists of things for which they’re thankful in the recruiting industry and wash it all down the exposing the biggest turkeys in employment. Yummy! Enjoy, you jive turkeys, and be sure to checkout our sponsors: America’s Job Exchange, Sovren and Ratedly. All guaranteed to not give you heartburn this holiday.

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 and the Firing Squad. What is FIRING SQUAD? Firing Squad is a raw podcast featuring two grizzled industry veterans who want to showcase recruitment industry startup companies. Their technology, products, and solutions either save them and win massive applause or just #fail and face the FIRING SQUAD. On this episode: We know that email engagement sucks and the response rate is horrible, which is why companies like FlashRecruit exist. FlashRecruit's mission is to "Break down the communication barriers to start the conversation between recruiters and the job seekers looking for their dream job." Can FlashRecruit pull it off or are they in store for a visit from the FIRING SQUAD? You'll have to listen to find out.

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 new features, and one is particularly brutal for Indeed. Glassdoor goes to court and is ordered to reveal the identities of some of its users (their TOS told you it could happen!). Popular native app Blind is coming to the Web, and here’s why it matters. Two new startups land on the scene and promise more AI matching goodness. Legit or more smoke and mirrors? All that and more from your two favorite industry knuckleheads. Enjoy responsibly. As always, give our sponsors some love. America’s Job Exchange, Sovren and Ratedly rule like no others have ever ruled before.

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 not? CareerBuilder is partnering with this vet site, and rumors that Monster is making changes to Military.com abound. On to other matters, LinkedIn continues to kickass and take names with a new integration with Microsoft Word. The move should have job sites, and even Google shaking in their New Balances. The company is also making Glassdoor a little nervous with a recent move. Lastly, tons of news items, so the guys go a little rapid fire to cover stories from Sourceress, Entelo and Jobs2Careers’ ipply. There’s also new research on what kind of videos you should be making to recruit. They end with a PSA that you shouldn’t do this to the president. As always, show our sponsors a little love. That’s an order! Sovren, America’s Job Exchange and Ratedly make it all happen.

In this Nexxt exclusive, in partnership with TAtech, Chad and Cheese bring industry veteran Susan Vitale, CMO at iCIMS, on to discuss iCIMS’ recent job seeker survey, and any other timely topic they want. Included is a deep dive into employment branding issues. In their recent report, iCIMS discovered that Glassdoor reviews have a tremendous impact on recruitment. For instance, nearly half of Millennials surveyed said they’ve turned down a job offer because of poor reviews. Other findings are discussed too. Also highlighted in the survey is the importance of mobile and the impact social media and peer referrals have on the modern job seeker. The podcast also goes into questions of ATS platforms and whether it’s better to build a recruitment technology yourself or provide a platform similar to the iPhone’s AppStore where third party vendors can provide services. It’s a great interview, providing entertainment and education in equal parts. Would you expect anything different from Chad & Cheese? I mean, c’mon now. This podcast is sponsored exclusively by Nexxt. Checkout their product Text2Hire, and access an exclusive Chad & Cheese discount by clicking here.

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’Hire go keep going back to the future and treading where past companies have failed, and it’s got the boys fired up. Aside from the lunacy of dating apps as employment apps and 2-minute-long video resumes, more money keeps funneling into talent acquisition technology, as another companies gets more funding. Oh, then robots keep scaring the hell out of us, especially when they give interviews with the press and given citizenship in Saudi Arabia. Have fun while your earthly dominance lasts, humans. Go throw money at our sponsors. They rule! America’s Job Exchange, Sovren and Ratedly are the bee’s knees, yo!

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 Crowded Refresh will be a big treat because it can bring old and dead candidates back to life. That’s right ZOMBIES!?! Or maybe just a shitload of money companies don’t have to spend looking for new candidates. Howie believes Crowded Refresh will be a huge success and make the applicant tracking system black hole a thing of the past. Will Howie and Crowded Refresh receive massive applause, golf clap, or be laid to rest by the Firing Squad? No tricks only treats are going to get Crowded through this one. For newbies: Firing Squad is a ghoulishly raw podcast which focuses on showcasing recruitment industry startup companies, technology, products, and solutions. Just think Shark Tank with less billionaires and more snark. Listen to find out. Then visit sponsors Sovren, Ratedly, and America’s Job Exchange.

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 wearing a speedo. (Try and get that picture out of your brainpan) Anyways.. In this episode Chad and Tim venture into the Recruiter killing fields of AI (Artificial Intelligence for you non-believers). Can recruiters survive in an environment where they must compete with machine learning and technology that can perform tasks in mere seconds that takes recruiters days? Will recruiters evolve? If so, what will they become? SnapChat gets into the wearables business. What in the Hell is SnapChat doing selling those Spectacles out of a vending machine? Will anyone actually buy them? If so, are they stylish enough and do they make Tim’s butt look big? Tim brings his canary in the “recruiting coal mine” theory to the pod for further discussion. Has the tech bubble started to burst? Is TA blowing VC budgets and doing a course correction? Or is AI starting to make an actual impact on recruiting gigs? Too soon man! TOO SOON!? We also learn that everyone loves their ATS and hates their CRM. Wait a minute, they LOVE their ATS?? No that’s just Smashfly crying wolf. Although, do ATSs take a bum wrap from Talent Acquisition’s inability to leverage technology? What is TA doing with marketing platforms in the first place? Last but not least HiQ declares CrowdJustice!? A crowdfunding initiative to help defend against the eventual onslaught of LinkedIn and Microsoft legal dollars. Is the public internet really public? Will David be able to hold off two Goliath’s? All of these topics, questions, ranting, rumbling, and more on this week’s The Chad and Cheese Podcast – HR’s Most Dangerous Podcast. Don’t forget to visit: Ratedly.com, Sovren.com and AmericasJobExchange.com/cheese. They are the reason for The Chad and Cheese season.

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), which means they still may be a little drunk from Saturday. On this week’s episode, a job board owner get intimately acquainted with the pokey, Facebook keeps rollin’ through the ‘hood and tearin’ shit up, and Johnson & Johnson finds its sunny disposition. As usual, visit our sponsors, America’s Job Exchange, Ratedly and Sovren. Without them, Chad and Cheese would probably just be livin’ in a van, down by the river. Giddyup!

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 maybe Microsoft’s ATS sucks more than we thought. “… imagine if a company that you’ve never heard of used automated bots to download your public profile (viewable via search engines such as Google), analyzed it to identify behavioral signals that you’re job shopping and warned your employer.” The boys discuss the state of web scrapers as various industries sound-off on hiQ vs. LinkedIn. Facebook quietly launches Workplace for Mac and PC chat apps, as well as integrating screenshare. It’s a nice product, but what the hell is Facebook actually doing in regards to employment. Are they a job board or a Slack assassin? Let’s dive in. The we move onto chatbots with Breezy HR’s new feature and iCIMS disses Microsoft and releases a very cool survey on job seeker habits. Hint: Employee anonymous reviews are really important. As always, visit our sponsors. They are kickass AF … Sovren, America’s Job Exchange and Ratedly. Boomshakalaka!

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 lunch boxes of job boards and ATSs everywhere. Listen to learn why. And speaking of ATSs, Chad thinks they’re all being royally stupid for playing nice with a certain professional network owned by Microsoft. At least Entelo is doing it right, and the boys discuss how this company is embracing A.I. to help put sourcers out of business. Agree or disagree? We don’t really care. Moving on. Slack – and is there ever a show where we don’t talk about Slack – has partnered up with Oracle, the granddaddy of softwares and it could be an omen of things to come for the messenger app valued at $5.whatever billion. By the way, Oracle and Salesforce are arch enemies, so that probably lessens the chance they’ll be in the market to buy Slack. The boys close the show with one of the oddest news items ever in the employment space. Furniture store IKEA has purchased TaskRabbit, which sort of reminds us of Best Buy buying Geek Squad back in the day. Someone’s got to put that furniture together! As always, visit out sponsors: Ratedly, Sovren and America’s Job Exchange. They keep the beer cold.

LinkedIn’s CEO from Talent Connect 2017 discussing the state of the company. Raw and unedited.

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 conference. Speaking of Denver what’s the deal with all of these Cannabis Jobs? Nearly 150,000 Americans hold “jobs in weed” and the Vangst Group seizes the opportunity to help companies find good weed talent. TakeTheInterview hears Skype’s footsteps and becomes the Hubspot for the recruiting industry with the ConveyIQ pivot and a message to recruiters – “Recruiters who don’t embrace marketing will be automated.” I’m not sure I’d use that as a slogan.??. CareerBuilder loses more newspaper affiliates, while ZipRecruiter adds a newspaper partnership with New Media in 550 markets. Joel’s excited that we’re revisiting 2003 while Chad yawns… (add crickets here) Morgan Stanley uses Snapchat to target campuses and why is Indeed giving us “the feels” all the sudden? Big props for making Chad and Cheese possible go to Sovren.com, Ratedly.com and Wonscore from Wonderlic. We couldn’t do it without you… Dammit, now I got the feels….

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 recruitment industry startup companies to strut their technology, products, and solutions or just fail miserably. It’s Shark Tank out of water, which means Chad and Cheese are loaded for grizzly. Goodtime.io feels they can change the face of interview scheduling for corporate recruiters all over the nation. Are they ready for primetime? Have they thought through all of the angles? Will Goodtime receive massive applause, golf clap, or get mowed down in a salvo of rounds by the Firing Squad? Listen to find out. Then visit all of our awesome sponsors: Sovren, Ratedly and Wonscore.

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 ZipRecruiter, Mayweather-style, dissing their loose definition of “integration,” among other things. Women also get some primetime this week as Google heads to court in a class action suit alleging Big G discriminates by paying females less than men for the same jobs, and Pinterest touts 200 million active monthly users, which puts it into LinkedIn and Twitter territory. Walmart shows a lot of love to Facebook by targeting job candidates on the platform, targeting users in little ol’ Seymour, Indiana. Employers who aren’t paying attention are doing it wrong. Then, the guys look at news from the week, highlighting a recent product release by Crowded that aims to help employers revive the dead in their resume databases. And CareerBuilder is hoping to help companies condense their various technology resources and databases, and manage them in one platform. As always, visit our sponsors: Sovren, Ratedly and Wonscore. They buy the beer.

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 unicorns than real science and a commercially viable product, both Chad and Cheese couldn’t imagine anyone acquiring this turkey. That belief was only strengthened when Elevated Careers’ website went on pause for about 6 mos. Then came along Candidate.Guru, a site neither of the guys had ever heard of, to sweep the business out of the jaws of certain death. With an unquenchable desire to learn more, the boys invited Candidate.Guru cofounder Steve Carter on the podcast to explain the deal and learn more about this mysterious acquirer. It’s one of their most entertaining interviews, and no punches were pulled. Enjoy. And as usual, visit sponsors Sovren, Ratedly and Wonscore. They help us pay the bills.

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 of their best interviews of the year. Then they bring it down a bit with some news from the pizza delivery space … delivery is about to get nutty and a lot of drivers are going to be unemployed. Monster has dropped a new commercial that has the guys reminiscing about the Bugs Bunny cartoons of their youth. Trumpasaurus got a makeover and a big-time Park Ave. budget. Moving on from commercials to video interviewing, the boys talk about news from the acquisition files as one of the original video recruiting sites gets gobbled up, all the while an 800-pound gorilla named Skype awaits to destroy them all. Lastly, remember how Google and Indeed turned job postings into commodities, starting about 10 years ago? Well, Google Hire is looking like it’s going to do the same to the ATS market today. SmartRecruiters is hunkering down for a world of free, and so should everyone else. As usual, go support our sponsors, because they rock: Sovren, Wonscore and Ratedly.

This week, the boys broadcasted live from Hinton, West Virginia at PracticeLink‘s annual corporate event. We had a great time and loved visiting West Virginia and soaking up a little southern hospitality. Much love. We covered our recent interview with Dice’s CEO and give a few opinions on what the takeaways were. There’s a lot of good advice in here for niche job boards. We look at new advertising options for recruiting desktop users and women, both solid diversity strategies. And what show would be complete without a little bashing: This time we take aim at Monster and LinkedIn. Then we take a final look at Facebook and how they continue to march into job board land. If you’re not paying close attention to what Facebook, Google and LinkedIn are doing, you’re doing yourself a big disservice. Enjoy, and as always, go show out sponsors a little love: Sovren, Ratedly and Wonscore. They make it all possible.

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 interesting year that saw the company look at strategic options for the business (a fancy way of saying, “We’re for sale”), then take the company off the market after no sale was realized. In addition to digging into that news item, Chad and Cheese dive into what’s going to happen to the entire portfolio of job sites, including eFinancial Careers, Biospace, ClearanceJobs and the others, as well as covering usability issues and mobile challenges of the business, and the companies nosediving stock price. It’s a must-see episode for industry junkies. And be sure to visit our sponsors while you’re listening, including Sovren, Ratedly and Wonscore by Wonderlic.

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 good summary: A federal judge issued a huge setback for LinkedIn on Monday, ruling that LinkedIn can’t block the startup hiQ Labs from accessing public profile data. Many news outlets were calling this a test for the social media conglomerate in how much control it can exercise over data on its users and what it’s believed to be public. The primary question in this case, can a social media site control access to information its users post publicly? According to Reuters, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction request brought by hiQ Labs and ordered LinkedIn to remove, within 24 hours, any technology preventing hiQ from accessing public profiles. You can also visit hiQ’s website for more information. As always, go say Hi to our sponsors: Sovren, Wonscore and America’s Job Exchange.

Startup Vervoe faces the Chad and Cheese Firing Squad. Firing Squad is a podcast which allows a startup company to either showcase their technology, products, and solutions or just fail miserably. It’s a Shark Tank-like podcast with 37 pieces of Chad and Cheese flair. Vervoe wants to prove they can change the Recruiting Industry so they stepped up to the mic, reached down deep, and have chosen to face the Firing Squad. Will they received massive applause, golf clap, or get mowed down in a salvo of rounds by the Firing Squad? You’ll have to listen to find out.