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The Chad & Cheese Podcast
by Evergreen Podcasts · English
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.
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ZipRecruiter Is Back, Mercor Hits $20B, and Seekout Musical Chairs
Recruiting-industry news and commentary, focusing on (1) Mercor’s $750M funding for AI training/evaluation at a $20B valuation, (2) ZipRecruiter’s Q3 financial rebound and product changes (including…
13 Nov 2026 · 1h 3m · 25 chaptersStop Rejecting Talent with Ritu Mohanka
Ritu Mohanka (Vonk) argues recruiters should stop optimizing for application volume (“clicks”) and instead optimize for relevant, high-intent, qualified candidates using agentic AI, outcome-based…
10 Nov 2026 · 28m · 13 chaptersBlue Waves, a $6.3B Binance Hack, & Fake Job Numbers?
The episode of HR’s Most Dangerous Podcast mixes election reaction with recruiting/job-market and cybersecurity news.
6 Nov 2026 · 1h · 26 chaptersShredded: Plato, Rocker, SeekOut, Bites, Roleo, Talroo, Upwork, & More
Weekly employment/recruiting headlines (Nov 2026) covering AI workplace simulation, enterprise AI, career matching, office expansion, small-business hiring, freelancing platform growth, labor-market…
5 Nov 2026 · 4m · 6 chapters
Gen Z Got Job Problems: AI Didn’t Kill the Resume. It Exposed It
Gen Z job-search problems and how AI hasn’t “killed” resumes; it exposed how broken traditional entry-level recruiting and CV/ATS processes are.
3 Nov 2026 · 33m · 17 chapters
Anthropic IPO or BUST!
Recruiting/HR tech stack chaos, layoffs/buyouts at Microsoft and Skydance, AI assistant startups vs workplace messaging, Dayforce acquiring Ribbon for agentic recruiting, and Anthropic’s IPO amid…
30 Oct 2026 · 47m · 23 chapters
Shredded: Paylocity, Dayforce, Ribbon AI, Colare, Microsoft, Skydance, eTeam, & More
2026 employment and recruiting headlines, focusing on AI hiring tools, acquisitions, workforce restructuring, and platform changes.
29 Oct 2026 · 4m · 1 chapterHow Heineken's Turned Recruiting Data Into Business Results with Kobi Ampoma
Heineken’s talent acquisition leader (Kobi Ampoma) explains how recruiting data and targeted recruiting marketing campaigns translate into business outcomes, while improving candidate experience and…
27 Oct 2026 · 24m · 14 chapters
Out-LinkedIn, LinkedIn?
The episode is a rant about “out-LinkedIn” recruiting: venture-backed AI sourcing tools and ATS/CRM stacks are multiplying, but the hosts argue they’re mostly redundant, employer-focused, and worsen…
23 Oct 2026 · 55m · 20 chaptersShredded: Zenzap, Workday, Amazon, ADP, LinkedIn, Deel, HR Path, & More
Weekly employment headlines covering workplace AI, hiring bias, job growth, HR tech, automation/robots, labor impacts, cybersecurity, and recruiting tools.
22 Oct 2026 · 6m · 3 chapters
The Future of Work and Staffing in an AI Era
The future of work and staffing in an AI era, focusing on worker anxiety, youth entry-level jobs, AI regulation, skills-based hiring, recruiter automation “slop,” and trust/verification in hiring.
20 Oct 2026 · 41m · 17 chaptersHungry Like The TechWolf : Juicebox is Thirsty : LinkedIn's 'Entrepreneurs R Us'
HR’s Most Dangerous Podcast discusses recruitment/HR tech deal news (SAP buying TechWolf; Juicebox buying Fetcher; Humanly buying CareerArc), plus LinkedIn leadership/DEI controversies and AI…
16 Oct 2026 · 1h · 27 chapters
Shredded: Juicebox, Fetcher, McKinsey, Rippling, Humanly, CareerArc, & More
Weekly employment and recruiting headlines (Oct 2026), covering AI recruiting deals, labor certification enforcement, consulting leadership fallout, hiring market conditions, inflation impacts, and…
15 Oct 2026 · 3m · 2 chaptersAgentic Transformation with Kayleen Weaver & Patrick Kelly
Two talent acquisition leaders explain “agentic”/AI-enabled recruiting transformation for healthcare and senior living—using programmatic job advertising, AI career pages/chatbots, answer-engine…
13 Oct 2026 · 33m · 19 chaptersMetaview Raises, LinkedIn Hunts, & HCA Gambles on Palantir
HR and recruiting tech news from the e-Recruitment Congress in Amsterdam, focusing on MetaView’s Series C raise and pivot to agentic recruiting, LinkedIn’s data/platform actions and what employers…
9 Oct 2026 · 53m · 22 chaptersShredded: LinkUp, Robert Half, Lyft, Ahron, Personio, TechWolf, LinkedIn, & More
Weekly HR/recruiting news roundup covering U.S. hiring trends, pay and compensation, gig-worker classification lawsuits, HR tech funding and acquisitions, and major leadership changes at LinkedIn.
8 Oct 2026 · 3m · 1 chapter
Zero Friction, Infinite Resumes, No Hope with Nathan Labenz
Nathan Labenz discusses AI “cheating” in training/evaluation environments, why frontier labs may need to pace or pause development, and how these dynamics affect HR/recruiting (AI-generated resumes,…
6 Oct 2026 · 43m · 19 chapters
LinkedIn Goes Full TikTok : Job Seeker Confidence Collapses
The hosts discuss job-market “yo-yo” economics and job-seeker despair, arguing that official data is misleading (“gaslighting”) while hiring friction worsens via tedious applications, ghost jobs, and…
2 Oct 2026 · 1h 2m · 27 chapters
Shredded: Ando, Indeed, Septeni, Media House Holdings, Gallup, HiringCafe, Spott, & More
This episode is a weekly employment-news roundup focused on AI in hiring and workplace tools.
1 Oct 2026 · 4m · 10 chapters
20 Recruiters Making 150,000 Hires with Shay Johnson
Compass Group’s recruiting scale (160–200k hires/year; 300k US employees) and how it uses connected job-board distribution, conversational ATS, automated re-engagement, and emerging AI agents to…
29 Sep 2026 · 37m · 19 chapters
Guilty Pleas, Autopilots and Iced Lattes: RecFest USA Live
Live from Wreckfest USA in Nashville, the Chad and Cheese Podcast covers conference takeaways, recruiter/AI industry news, and debates about culture and “autopilot” recruiting tech.
25 Sep 2026 · 41m · 20 chaptersShredded: DailyPay, Workday, Meta, Recruitics, ZoomInfo, Fuel50, Linkedin, & More
Weekly employment/recruiting headlines covering schedule/pay transparency, AI hiring interviews, layoffs and AI metrics, Gen Z job switching, and new HR/recruiting product updates from Recruitics,…
24 Sep 2026 · 4m · 3 chapters
Candidate Fraud Stops Here with Etan Bernstein
The episode argues that AI-driven job applications have exposed “candidate fraud” and overwhelmed recruiting with unverifiable, self-reported resumes.
22 Sep 2026 · 32m · 22 chaptersMeta Employee Meltdown : LinkedIn Goes Loco : 32-Hour Work Week Law?
Meta reverses course on two controversial internal initiatives: (1) bringing back middle-management roles after layoffs and (2) pausing an employee monitoring program that triggered worker revolt.
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