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Chad & Cheese discuss a wide variety of topics and current news stories around recruiting, human resources, and employment. Hiring companies, employers, and vendors tune in weekly for insights from practitioners, vendors, startups, and more.

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IKEA's Rick Carsley: No Assembly Required

Swedish meatballs, Deadpool, Recruiting, and more from IKEA.
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Suck On That, Indeed

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.
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NAS Recruitment Has a New Sugar Daddy

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.
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VOICES: Culture, the New Discrimination?

The Gig Economy, Culture, and What is hard work?
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Coronavirus Edition

Coronavirus is effecting everything, Cornerstone acquisition, Workday's Sales events and if that wasn't bad enough the global economy,
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Brand Revelation

Is your brand dealing disappointment to loyal followers wanting to join the team?
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Billion Dollar Acquisition Closes

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.
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Somebody's Watching Me!?!

Ben Mones, Fama CEO, talks social screening.
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The Bigger They Are...

On this week’s show the boys discuss a $22 billion merger, iCIMS finds their new leader, and Walmart says, “Taco Bell, hold our beer.”
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Will White Box Save A.I.?

What is Whitebox AI and is it the answer to better transparency and technology for the future? 
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FIRING SQUAD: HR Lancers CEO, Chris Russell

Freelancing and the Gig Economy is getting bigger. Are HR giggers ready for it yet?
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Amazon Ruins Everything

This week’s episode covers Slack’s comeback, Indeed’s whack Oscars ad, gaming Amazon gigs and much more.
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#Blessed that Recruiters Suck

Sourcing extraordinaire Mike "Batman" Cohen is not the kind of cat who pulls punches In this can't-miss episode
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Another ATS Bites the Dust

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.
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Symphony Talent CEO, Roopesh Nair

Roopesh Nair is president and CEO at Symphony Talent, the recent acquirer of SmashFly, which listeners will remember from the podcast.
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Indeed Switcharoo

Indeed plays Lucy and moves the ball on Charlie Brown aka Talent Acquisition
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LinkedIn Loses Its Weiner

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.
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VOICES: Does HR Care About Candidate Experience?

Robert Ruff, President of Sovren Technology tackles the hard questions as he and the boys about the black hole experience hiring process which really hasn't changed much in the last 20-years.
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Everything Must Go! CareerBuilder's Latest Sell-Off

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.
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CULT BRAND: Chris Kneeland CEO of Cult Collective

Chris joins the show to dive into what a "Cult Brand" is and how markets react to them.
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New Glassdoor... Who Dis?

Glassdoor talks about their new car smell while Delta creates Iron Man tech for their employees.
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Facebook Jobs Strategy?

Roberto Angulo talks how programmatic may be the Newspaper's savior?
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FIRING SQUAD: Real Links' CEO Sam Davies

Referrals rock! Ask most companies and they'll tell you referrals are the best resource for candidates they currently employ.
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Carolina Start-Up Secures $3M

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.
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Facebook Goes Google 4 Jobs

Is Facebook pressing the "JOBS" revenue button?
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CULT BRAND: Make Plan B Decisions

Airbnb's back was up against the wall. ​What happens when the New York Attorney General slaps a subpoena on the young upstart Airbnb in 2013 to access all host data for 15,000 hosts?
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VOICES: hiQ. LinkedIn's Salvation?

Robert Ruff joins Chad & Cheese to talk hiQ and LinkedIn
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Robot Lump Theory

Where robots taking jobs and labor lump fallacy meets.
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Phenom Lands Phenomenal Investment

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.
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Cult Guac w/ Chipotle

Mike Miller and Joe Albano join The Chad & Cheese podcast to talk food, brand, college, and drunk nurses? No.
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Me and Mr. Jones

We've got a thing goin' on with Mr. Jones. That's Mark Jones SVP at AMS and that thing is a podcast - enjoy
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Predictions 2020 w/ Tim Sackett

Chad & Cheese 2020 predictions with Tim Sackett
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Bullhorn Acquires Herefish

Bullhorn acquires Herefish- terms of the deal were not disclosed
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ATS is Bad Ass?

Can your Applicant Tracking System be bad ass? David Webb is hoping that can be the case on this episode of Chad & Cheese.
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Decade Top Tens

The boys cover items this week from Indeed-owned ClickIQ and Monster's BetterThing. Better who? Exactly. And, as if that wasn't enough, Chad & Cheese discuss their Top Tens from the decade. Balls will drop on this first show of 2020. Enjoy, and make Sovren, JobAdx and Canvas your New Year's resolution.
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College Recruiting Start-Up Raises $8.5M

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.
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A Nurturing Acquisition

Danielle Weinblatt joins Chad & Cheese to talk about ConveyIQ's acquisition by Entelo.
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2019 Naughty & Nice

Bill Boorman joins Chad and Cheese on stage to announce their 2019 Naughty and Nice list at TalentNET LIVE in Dallas.
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WTF WT?

WT dies, HackerRank Scores and Gig jobs pay!
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FIRING SQUAD: Jobsync's Alex Murphy

Jobsync tries tackling the age old problem of the candidate apply. Will Chad & Cheese give big applause, golf clap or the FIRING SQUAD.
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R.I.P. WT Employ

WT Employ aka JWT + Wunderman's employment segment shuts down
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Adzuna Shade

Adzuna throws shade at neuvoo's recent buy of the Talent.com domain. Envy much?
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Crowded Gets Acquired

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 -- Recruitology brings artificial intelligence - that's AI kids - to job posting and distribution for employers large and small.
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A Righteous Fiasco

Fiasco is a cool name, but what does it mean? Chaos. So what's in a name and does it really matter? How do customers and employees engage with the BRAND, not the name? 
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DEMOpocalypse: MYA chatbot!

Everybody loves the thought, the idea, the possible application of a chatbot.
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Neuvoo's Sexual Chocolate Moment

It's like a damned variety show during this podcast, recorded LIVE from a posh Dallas Hotel lobby.
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Talent.com had me at "Hello"

It's Thursday Dec 5th and Neuvoo - also known as - The polite Indeed - is becoming.... Talent.com
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Programmatic Fire Sale

This episode features Jason Roberts a guy who knows recruitment, process, and technology.
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Plump Acquisitions

On this thankful episode, JZ lands a new gig, ClickIQ is hiding something (probably in their comfy pants) and Cielo enjoys a Visage. Whether you prefer pumpkin or pecan, you're gonna love this week's show.
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When Brand Meets Tragedy

How do you prepare for a crisis? A tragedy? How do you prepare your people for a crisis? Remember your people are your brand, right? How do you ensure the people are getting the right message, that you are handling the spray and inaccuracies of social media.
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WTF is RXO?

Technology disruption. We hear it a lot, but what does it really mean in the world of work?
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The Crowd Wins Over Robots

Cielo invests in Visage and makes crowdsourced sourcing a real thing!
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Google for Jobs is ALIVE

Google for Jobs Update, LinkedIn cries for SCOTUS, Indeed goes gig and Microsoft smacks Slack.
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Indeed Goes Gig

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.
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Firing Squad: Applichat's Adam Chambers

Is it a chatbot? Is it a Facebook advertising platform?
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Hell Hath No Fury

Careerbuilder goes to court, Bullhorn goes to the market, Olivia pulls the catfish move and more.
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DEATH MATCH: Seekout's Anoop Gupta

It's the GRAND CHAMPION edition of Death Match North America recorded LIVE onstage at TAtech in Austin.
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Chatbot Queen Talks Whitespace

Quincy Valenca (aka Queen of the Chatbots) joins the menz to talk chatbots, programmatic and industry whitespace. Whitespace? WTF is WHITESPACE?
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OUTTAKE: Veterans Day

Veterans are more important than a single day.
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Brew Review - THE MOVIE

Beer and recruitment industry conversation... Add microphones - it's The Chad & Cheese Brew Review
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Upwork Goes Down

Upwork's Quarterly Earnings Were a Real Drag
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Symphony Talent Gets Smashed

Symphony Talent acquires SmashFly Technologies, meaning a target is on TMP Worldwide's back.
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CULT BRAND: Turning Old to Cool

Alexandra Nuth aka "The Nuth-inator" talks to the guys about how spinning the new Challenger Brand - Brightside - out of ATB happened.
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DEATH MATCH: Job.com's Arran Stewart

Job.com's Founder and CVO steps onstage in Austin for the startup competition known as Death Match.
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The Money Shot

Money Shot with George Larocque - Q3 2019
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Symphony Acquires SmashFly

Symphony Talent Acquires Smashfly Technologies
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The Big Halloween Show!

Scary Acquisitions and buy-outs with Engage Talent and VONQ
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DEATH MATCH: Assess First CEO, David Bernard

This Chad and Cheese Death Match episode features a contestant all the way from France - David Bernard, CEO and Founder of Assess First.
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Does Your Brand Suck? Unleash LIVE!

Live from Unleash in Paris
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Indeed Throttling and Glassdoor Shakedowns?

Chad and Cheese talk industry, candidate experience and industry shakedowns.
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Cult Brand: Ellie Doty, CMO at Chili's

Ellie Doty, CMO for Chili's Grill and Bar, talks to Chad & Cheese about their road back to "Cult Status"
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Drones, Architects, and Hiring (and More Drones)

Edward Sayson talks hiring systems, throwback recruiting and drones!
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LinkedIn Gets Touch-Feely

LinkedIn Embraces Its Inner Meetup & TMP / AIA Carves-Out Marketshare
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Programmatic Be Scary

Thomas Prince joins Chad & Louise to talk programmatic.
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DEATH MATCH: Pez.AI's Brian Rowe

Pez.AI takes the TAtech stage for Death Match North America.
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RecruiterLESS RXO... WTH?

What is a "recruiterless RXO" solution?
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You've Been Wonged!

Mason Wong, is a VETERAN of the Recruitment Wars and responsible for Lyft's applicant tracking system, supporting the recruitment team.
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TMP/AIA acquires Carve

AIA, TMP's EU version acquires the social media firm Carve
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Social Data Dies a Prophet's Death

It's a Jobcase Exclusive podcast. Jeremy Roberts, VP of Customer Experience from Hiring Solved takes the HR Tech stage with Chad & Cheese to talk data and a shocking new announcement.
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HackerRank, LinkedIn add Buffalo Wings

Chad & Cheese pull up to a bar, grab a beer and talk HackerRank, LinkedIn and a myriad of new tech moves.
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Study Reveals Median Referral Bonus Offered by Staffing Firms

Here's how many offer bonuses for referrals of temporary worker candidates, according to a report by Staffing Industry Analysts.
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Study Reveals Median Referral Bonus Offered by Staffing Firms

Here's how many offer bonuses for referrals of temporary worker candidates, according to a report by Staffing Industry Analysts.
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Cult Brand: What Happens in Vegas ...

Cathy Tull, former CMO of Las Vegas Convention and Vistors Authority talks about leading the "What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas" campaign.
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Firing Squad: Collegia.io

This startup wants to bring email marketing to recruiting.
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Brew Review: This Way Global from Austin

Angela Hood joins Chad & Cheese in Austin for their very first Brew Review
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Fear and Loathing from HR Tech in Vegas

What do you get when you combine one of the industry's most popular conferences, free booze and a hoard of ravenous Chad & Cheese fans?
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Recruiter Nation Live: David Draper

Enjoy this Jobvite Exclusive with David Draper, Director of Talent Acquisition with Lewis Group of Companies.
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Bullhorn Acquires Erecruit

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. Sponsored by Dora from Happy Recruiter.com
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Neuvoo Thrives, Uncommon Dies

Enjoy this week's show, powered by Sovren, Canvas and JobAdx.
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Intel Corp: Talent Analytics and Automation

An interview with Tyler Weeks of Intel
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Monster Layoffs!

The axe dropped at Monster last week.
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Cult Brand: Purpose Must Come First

Best-selling author, branding expert and former Airbnb global head of community, Douglas Atkin, joins Chad & Cheese in their Cult Brand Series of podcasts. In this episode, Atkin breaks down the importance of companies living their purpose, first and foremost.
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Interview: HackerRank CEO

Nothing quite compares to U, and nothing compares to tech recruiting. To say it's a competitive landscape is a major understatement, and HackerRank is doing all they can to make the process as efficient as possible.
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Neuvoo Breaks the Bank

Someone got paid. Enjoy this Happy Recruiter exclusive.
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Indeed Rumspringa!

Indeed Prime is Now Seen
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Recruiting Sucks!

... But It Doesn't Have To: Breaking Through the Myths That Got Us Here
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Delivering Value To Business w/ Jobvite CEO, Aman Brar

Aman Brar delivers the opening keynote to 2019 Recruiter Nation Live audience
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Evergreen Podcasts Land...

Evergreen Podcasts, a Cleveland, Ohio-based podcast network, is proud to announce a partnership with The Chad & Cheese Podcast.
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What's Next for Job Boards?

It's more Recfest gold from London. What should job boards do to survive and thrive in the age of AI, RPA and all of the other noisy acronyms? Chad and Cheese have ideas...  
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LinkedIn Suffers Legal Smackdown

You heard it first on The Shred, and the boys go deep into the legal case pitting hiQ against 800-lb. gorilla LinkedIn that’s left LinkedIn licking its wounds.
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Cult Brand: Living Your Purpose w/ Douglas Atkin

Best-selling author, branding expert and former Airbnb global head of community, Douglas Atkin, joins Chad & Cheese in their Cult Brand Series of podcasts. Enjoy this Smashfly exclusive.
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Best-Selling Author Dan Pink

You may know best-selling author Dan Pink for well known books like When, To Sell is Human and Drive, but you’ve never heard him like this. A must-listen for subscribers. Enjoy this Nexxt exclusive.
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Indeed.com Conspiracy!

Grab your aluminum foil-covered cap and check-out our recent convo with Dennis Tupper, who thinks Indeed has delusions of staffing business grandeur. This is a Talroo exclusive.
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LinkedIn Loses in Court

Scrape away! LinkedIn gets smacked in court. The Shred is sponsored by HappyRecruiter.com.
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Death of Video Recruiting?

Video recruiting has been touted pretty much since the dawn of the Internet. And we’re still waiting for it to be the huge success it was supposed to become. No company encapsulates this more than HireVue, who was in the news this week as the boys discuss the future of video in the recruiting game.
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Moonlighting CEO Dumps Cold Water on Gig Economy

It’s not all confetti and rainbows in the gig economy. The Shred is sponsored by Happy Recruiter.
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Indeed.com’s Masterplan?

Think you know what Indeed is up to? Well, we have someone on who might definitely know in Alex Murphy. Grab your aluminum foil hat and enjoy.
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RPA! AI is for Suckas

Artificial intelligence is so last month. Meet your future in RPA.
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Google Goes Limp

The Labor Day edition of this week’s Chad & Cheese Podcast is full of goodness: Hire by Google shuts it down, Entelo and ConveyIQ get cozy, AllyO may be melting down and much, much more.
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Ding-Dong! Hire by Google is Dead

Welp! Didn’t see that one coming.
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Coming Soon: Cult Brand Series

Chad & Cheese are turning the world of employment branding on its head.
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Entelo Acquires ConveyIQ

You heard the rumors here first, but it’s official now. Here are the details. The Shred is sponsored by Dora by HappyRecruiter.com.
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Amazon’s Twitter Trolls Strike Again

Authenticity is a tough thing to come by these days, but Amazon takes things to a whole other level, and the boys hash out what’s wrong with the employers branding strategies. Oy!
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Firing Squad: SBOJ

There’s already too many staffing solutions in the UK, right? Nay! says this month’s Firing Squad guest, SBOJ (it’s jobs backwards, get it?). Let’s just see how right this start-up really is on this Talroo exclusive.
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Indeed’s Getting Into The Job Fair Business

The Shred, sponsored by Happy Recruiter.
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Sex, Lies and … Clusterpuck?

The boys don’t do very many interviews with authors – ya’ know, smart people who write books ‘n’ stuff – but that’s starting to change with Operation Clusterpuck: A B.S. Incorporated Novel.
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Niches Get Stitches

Think Google’s going to have an easy time taking over the world of employment? “Well, think again,” says Europe, as 23 job sites file a lawsuit against the search engine giant.
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The Dark Side of A.I.

Artificial intelligence is running amok! Someone has to police this out-of-control state of technology. Enter Miranda Bogen, a Senior Policy Analyst...
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Google for Jobs Antitrust or Bust?

It’s The Shred – a mini-Chad and Cheese bite of Breaking News — This is Chad Sowash
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