The Chad & Cheese Podcast

It’s The Shred – a mini-Chad and Cheese bite of Breaking News — This is Chad Sowash The Shred is brought to you by The Judge Group… What exactly is The Judge Group, well Judge has over 48 years of experience and success in recruiting talent – namely IT and Healthcare talent. If you need Healthcare or IT professionals go to Judge.com and tell them Chad & Cheese sent you — Judge.com — I love that domain On to the NEWS… Pivots can’t save everyone… Snag – aka Snagajob – the hourly hiring platform just outsed their CEO Peter Harrison. Why? Well, pull up some Glassdoor reviews and that might start to answer the question of Harrison’s kick to the curb. Harrison’s 41 percent CEO approval rating – which sucks btw – and most of the negative reviews focus on a lack of leadership – never a good thing for a CEO. Not too mention in 2016 then Snagajob’s landscape changed immensely with an infusion of an additional $100m investment, now the cash wasn’t the biggest change rather.. that cash shifted control to outside investment firms. Ohhhh NELLY! And also remember Snag’s sweetspot is the SMB market and with Zip killing it, LinkedIn licking their chops and Facebook – yea Facebook joining the party it’s getting more than competitve at the SMB party! Who will be the new face of Snag? Fabio Rosati of Upwork fame – you know the freelance job site that accrued 14 million users in 180 countries and more than $1 billion in annual billings. Yea that Fabio Rosati… But will Fabio be enough to get the SMB platform through the competition and the new Uber-like hourly start-ups? Who knows but it’s gonna to be fun watching… NEXXT >>>>>> Microsoft is going to drink Slack’s milkshake — Yes There will be blood Slack a business communication and productivity platform has to defend it’s flank from Microsoft Teams a competitor to Slack who has just launched a FREE version. According to Quartz… The new free Microsoft Teams platform is aimed at small and medium-size businesses. It’ll be free for an organization’s first 300 users, and each user will be given 2 GB of storage, along with 10 GB that the team can share. This news should send Slackers into a panic… Teams is integrated with the Microsoft suite and are targeting Slack. Joel and I always talk about who will acquire Slack… Well, Microsoft isn’t in the market to acquire Slack who has $790m in funding, they want to kill them, but what about Google? Who else do you think should be eyeing Slack – let us know on Twitter, just use #chadcheese, on LinkedIn connect and ping us or stop on by the chadcheese.com site and leave us a message. We might just be talking about Snag and Teams v Slack milkshake on the next episode so join the discussion. >>>>>>> Big thanks to Judge for supporting The Shred – The Judge Group People Powered Business Solutions – Judging people since 1970… and if you haven’t been Judged and you need Healthcare and IT professionals — what the hell are you waiting for? Check ’em out at Judge.com – that’s J-U-D-G-E – DOT COM SOWASH — OUT!

The boys discuss updates on the text recruiting wars, featuring the likes of Jobvite, TextRecruit, iCIMS, Canvas and Emissary. Plus, Chad talks “shortage,” acquisitions by Ultimate Software and Slack, and, of course, what episode would be complete without CareerBuilder’s continuous fall into the abyss. Enjoy, and visit our sponsors America’s Job Exchange, Sovren and JobAdX.

Hey boys and girls, it’s The Shred for July 18, 2018, brought to you by Judge.com. Whether you’re moving your systems to the cloud, building out a team for your next project, finding healthcare talent for your organization, filling that mission critical direct hire to lead your team, or training your employees on the latest technology, Judge.com can deliver to ensure your organization’s long-term growth. To the news: Cloud-based management software provider Ultimate Software acquired France-based HR solutions company PeopleDoc for $300M yesterday in cash and stock; Ultimate Software’s 4.1k clients represent 38M employees; PeopleDoc serves 4M employees; PeopleDoc had previously raised $51M. In more acquisition news, Slack acquired Denver-based enterprise software startup Missions this week; terms were undisclosed; Missions enables businesses to customize Slack with additional features; the team will work in Slack’s Denver offices; members will continue in their current assignments; Slack has raised $790M to date. Next up, listeners will remember iCIMS acquired TextRecruit earlier this year. Well not to be outdone, Jobvite has announced a partnership with TextRecruit competitor Canvas to provide text recruiting solutions for its users. “This latest update to the Jobvite platform offers recruiters a must-have solution to engage candidates and immediately start a conversation, on their terms, within seconds,” said Jobvite Chief Product Officer, Robert Tsao. “With this new functionality, hiring teams can provide jobseekers with instant access to resources, eliminate time spent waiting for responses, and easily stay in touch over time in order to build lasting, authentic relationships.” As usual, we’ll be sure to discuss the news in greater depth on the weekly show, so be sure to tune-in. Once again, thanks to our sponsor Judge.com. With over 48 years of experience and success, Judge is an industry leader in technology, talent and learning solutions. Judge is a family-owned business which has grown globally with offices in the United States, Canada, India and China. Learn more at j-u-d-g-e-dot-com. Cheesman out.

The boys breakdown the who, what, why and how of all the investment money flowing into recruitment technology startups with industry analyst George Laroque. This podcast is an exclusive from Uncommon.

It’s The Shred – a mini-Chad and Cheese bite of Breaking News — This is Chad Sowash Greenhouse ATS and Recruiting Software scored $50 million in Series D funding from Riverwood Capital. What the Hell are they going to do with that kinda cash? Well, Greenhouse wants to use the cash to expand globally and improve its product suite around recruiting, onboarding, hiring analytics, and diversity and inclusion.

The boys are back after a July 4th break and there’s a lot to cover. Shaker Recruitment Marketing makes an acquisition, Google embraces the Union Jack, voice assistants go commercial, CareerBuilder continues to burn and lots more. Enjoy, and give our sponsors a big hug. America’s Job Exchange, JobAdX and Sovren love the warm-and-fuzzy.

The bleeding over at CareerBuilder continues. Multiple sources are informing us that three more executives are gone. It’s a mix of terminations and just getting the hell off the Titanic.

AllyO touts itself as an end-to-end solution for recruitment. But if you think it’s just another chatbot waiting to board the commoditization train, well, you might be right. Or wrong. You’ll have to listen to see if this start-up cuts the mustard and survives the Firing Squad. This podcast is an exclusive from Talroo. Our sponsors rock, by the way.

On a slow week that saw us celebrating America’s birthday, the boys are taking a break from the weekly rundown and chatting with Groupon’s head of global employment brand, James Ellis. Chad cornered the poor guy at a recent conference and dug into a wide variety of topics. Enjoy, and be sure to visit our sponsors, JobAdX, Sovren and America’s Job Exchange.

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