How exactly do high-performing talent, HR, and recruiting teams operate on a day-to-day basis? We find out through conversations with talent leaders at some of the world's most influential businesses.
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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 wr ...
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Welcome to Performance SEO Unpacked, the podcast for enterprise businesses looking to master SEO and achieve real, measurable growth. Supported by ResultFirst, leaders in pay-for-performance SEO, we simplify the complexities of managing large-scale SEO. Each episode provides expert insights, actionable strategies, and real-world advice to help you stay ahead of trends, prove ROI, and scale your efforts with confidence. Subscribe now and unlock the full potential of enterprise SEO. Visit resu ...
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Shredded: DianaHR, Workday, Sana, Fiverr, Pack, and ZipRecruiter
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Workday Shopping Spree & iCIMS' Panic Buy
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1:09:42Buckle up for The Chad & Cheese Podcast, where Joel Cheesman, Chad Sowash, and Maureen Clough dive into HR’s wildest waves with their signature no-filter banter! This episode tackles the HR tech consolidation frenzy: Workday’s $1.1B Sana acquisition, paired with recent Paradox and Flowise buys, signals a bold AI-driven strategy to streamline everyt…
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How Salesforce Balances AI, People, and Values to Shape the Future of Work
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18:17At Salesforce, technology and humanity are designed to evolve together. AI isn’t seen as a threat but as a tool that frees employees to focus on empathy, creativity, and leadership. In this episode, Molly Ford, VP of Talent Connection and Engagement, shares how Salesforce integrates core values like equality and volunteerism into every business pla…
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AI Won’t Save Recruiting with Matt Charney
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38:24AI isn’t fairy dust you sprinkle on your ATS latte—it’s duct tape on 20-year-old tech, sold to you with a shiny new buzzword. Enter Matt Charney, the HR-tech cynic who’s seen it all: Monster, SmartRecruiters, Employer.com, and enough bad vendor decks to wallpaper Vegas. In this episode, Charney calls BS on: Vendors selling “AI” that’s really just 2…
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OpenAI Takes Aim at Jobs : Indeed, LinkedIn Bring the Bots : BLS Chaos
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58:17In this episode of The Chad & Cheese Podcast, with Chad Sowash sipping ouzo on a Greek beach, Joel Cheesman and guest J.T. O’Donnell dish out spicy takes on the workforce with their trademark snark. They kick off with a riff on empathy—or lack thereof—in today’s rage-fueled world, joking that community resilience is basically folks bonding over Wi-…
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Shredded: OpenAI, Throxy, Velocity Global, Shaker Recruitment Marketing, exaqueo, Remuner, & More
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The Hidden Leaks in SEO Budgets: What Your CMS and CDN Aren’t Telling You | Ep. 26
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6:01Many SEO teams believe their budgets are airtight, yet silent leaks are draining performance in ways that don’t show up on a spreadsheet or monthly report. On Performance SEO Unpacked, host Ruchi Pardal exposes the hidden culprits: CMS limitations, CDN misconfigurations, and bloated tech stacks that quietly hold visibility hostage. Instead of point…
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Scale Your Suck: Sackett on AI and Talent
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31:56Tim Sackett is back, and he’s not here to sugarcoat your broken recruiting process. From running a family staffing biz (yes, his mom started it—nepotism FTW) to launching the HR Tech 100 Fund, Sackett’s got opinions, and Chad & Cheese are here to poke the bear. Inside this episode: Why most HR tech still runs on vaporware and broken promises The Sa…
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How Concentrix Builds Talent Teams That Think Like Ops Leaders
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20:58At Concentrix, a global leader in customer experience solutions, talent acquisition is closely integrated with business operations rather than functioning as a standalone department. In this episode, Jillene Jensen, Senior Director of Talent Acquisition, shares how her operations background led to a new kind of talent acquisition strategy: prioriti…
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Google Wins, Meta Spins, and a Recruitics Fail?
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55:42From Google’s “flock of dead canaries” warning shot to Meta’s latest identity crisis, this episode is jam-packed with chaos. Recruitix buys a mystery box, Nestlé boots its CEO over an office fling, and Taco Bell AI goes full waterpark mode. Oh, and Chipotle drones are now dropping burritos from the sky. You can’t make this stuff up—so we didn’t.Cha…
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7 Hard SEO Questions CMOs Are Finally Asking — And What to Do About Them | Ep. 25
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7:48On this solo episode of Performance SEO Unpacked, host Ruchi Pardal takes on seven of the toughest SEO questions she hears every week from CMOs, VPs, and growth leaders across SaaS, e-commerce, and multi-location businesses. With no fluff and all tactics, Ruchi lays out why flat traffic with falling conversions signals an intent mismatch, what real…
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Shredded: InstaLILY, Welcome Tech, Darwin AI, Recruitics, Change State, Laborup, Hubert, & More
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AI in Hiring: Trust, Safety, and Why Compliance Freaks Out
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29:11What happens when you mix SmartRecruiters, a global AI pivot, and a comms pro who loves to “shake shit up”? You get Allyn Bailey dropping truth bombs on everything from why legacy ATS platforms should be left in a museum next to floppy disks, to how scheduling interviews is apparently the Mount Everest of HR tech problems. Joel and Chad dig into: W…
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How Selling the Role Helps Marsden Services Improve Retention in a Labor-Heavy Industry
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28:32At Marsden Services, a national provider of cleaning, security, and maintenance services, talent acquisition starts with clear and honest role-selling. In this episode, Vice President of Talent Acquisition Ashley Lynch shares how visiting worksites, understanding the day-to-day realities of each role, and setting clear expectations have helped her …
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Workday Buys Paradox | HR Tech’s Biggest AI Move Yet?
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51:53Strap on your helmets and tighten those chinstraps, Chad Sowash and Joel Cheesman are celebrating their 1,500th episode with more swagger than a Cracker Barrel parking lot brawl. Expect: -Trump cosplaying as a mob boss at Intel and Cracker Barrel -Kelce + Swift rumors getting the “wink-wink” treatment -Fantasy football team names that would make yo…
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Shredded: Dayforce, Pintarnya, Folks, Glow Talents, ZipRecruiter, Workday, Paradox & More
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How Marriott Tackles AI, Complexity, and Fake Candidates
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21:49Marriott’s Tyler Weeks joins Chad & Cheese to unpack what it’s like running HR for a million humans (and possibly a few Roombas). Expect: Ritz-Carlton ghosting Joel harder than his prom date. Why Marriott’s HR is basically 9,000 mom-and-pop shops in a trench coat. The shocking discovery that AI doesn’t make great recruiters greater—it just stops th…
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The VOLT Framework: How SEO Visibility Really Drives Revenue | Ep. 24
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7:09Performance SEO Unpacked with Ruchi Pardal explores a simple yet powerful framework for connecting search visibility with real business growth. In this solo episode, Ruchi introduces VOLT — Visibility, Outcomes, Leads, Transactions — a model designed to close the gap between “we are ranking” and “we are growing revenue.” ㅤ She explains why most SEO…
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How Legacy Health Uses Data to Drive Smarter, Faster Hiring Decisions
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34:30At Legacy Health, talent acquisition is shaped by data, experimentation, and a deep understanding of people. In this episode, Travis Trautman, Director of Sourcing and Talent Acquisition, shares how his team uses mini-experiments to improve hiring speed, candidate fit, and decision-making across a highly regulated healthcare environment. With a car…
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Upwork’s €20M Bupty Bet, Denmark’s Deepfake Crackdown, and Europe’s 4-Day Work Week
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53:08Forget the Eiffel Tower, kids—we’re climbing the recruitment rollercoaster instead. Upwork’s shopping spree in Holland (Bupty? Buptie? Bupkis?), Denmark’s going full Face/Off to keep Nic Cage off Viggo’s jawline, and the UK is suddenly allergic to Fridays. Joel’s out dropping Cole at college, so Chad is joined by Belgium’s royal pain Lieven and Sco…
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🎧 This week on The Chad & Cheese Podcast: AI hiring lawsuits pile up faster than unread LinkedIn DMs Upwork tries on staffing’s Blockbuster costume Deel debuts creepy digital clones (no, not the cool Star Wars kind) And Joel cries in Bloomington while Chad rants about Tim Apple It’s HR tech, corporate drama, and just enough bad jokes to make you qu…
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Shredded: Visage, Rolebot, Workday, Upwork, Professional.me, Deel, & More
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Future-Proof Talent: The Johnson Controls Approach to Hiring for Emerging Roles
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31:05Johnson Controls is known for making buildings smarter, safer, and more sustainable. But inside the company, there’s a different kind of transformation happening—in how they attract, hire, and prepare talent for the future of work. In this episode of Talent All-Stars, Mike Aronson— Senior Director of Global Talent Acquisition Operations—shares how …
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Domino’s HR Tech Transformation with Matt King
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25:31Domino’s isn’t just delivering pizza in 30 minutes or less anymore—they’re trying to deliver candidates, too. In this episode, we sit down with Matt King, Director of HR Tech at Domino’s, to talk AI, ATS drama, and why franchisees always have “better ideas” than corporate. From killing off Kenexa (RIP, nobody misses you) to jumping into bed with Sm…
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It's the End of Entry Level Jobs as We Know It (and I Feel Fine) : Silicon Valley Gets Hard
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51:05Hold onto your headphones, folks, because the Chad and Cheese Podcast is serving up a hilarious, hot-mess buffet of insights that’ll leave you laughing and maybe a little worried about your career! This episode, your hosts sling snarky banter like baristas tossing espresso shots, breezing through early chit-chat about travel woes, Coldplay’s drama-…
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Shredded: ZipRecruiter, DHI Group, AgileATS, Kelly Services, Darwinbox, Upwork, Bubty & More
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AI or Not, Authority Wins: Structuring Enterprise Content for Search and Sentiment | Ep. 23
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20:28Enterprise SEO can get messy fast — five business units, hundreds of stakeholders, and AI reshaping what shows up in search. On Performance SEO Unpacked, host Ruchi Pardal sits down with Joe Bare to unpack what it really takes to build authority when visibility doesn’t always mean clicks. ㅤ Joe, who has led strategy across industries from travel to…
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The Ace Way of Hiring: Inside Ace Hardware’s Human-Centered Approach to Talent Acquisition
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24:22Ace Hardware’s hiring strategy is grounded in one core principle: a consistent, transparent experience for every candidate—regardless of outcome. In this episode, Stef Nikitas, Director of Talent Acquisition at Ace Hardware, outlines how her team developed “The Ace Way of Hiring”—a structured, brand-aligned approach that sets clear expectations for…
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Why Working in HR Sucks Right Now with Sarah Needleman
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28:25In this episode, the boys chat with Sarah Needleman, Business Insider’s Leadership and Workplace Correspondent, formerly of the Wall Street Journal for 23 years. Her article, “If You Think Your Job Is Hard Right Now, Try Working in HR,” dives into HR’s brutal post-2020 landscape: mass layoffs (like Microsoft’s 9,000 cuts) burden HR with soul-crushi…
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In this episode of The Chad & Cheese Podcast, hosts Chad Sowash and Joel Cheesman—HR tech's dynamic duo of snark and smarts—serve up a buffet of industry drama with their trademark banter that'll have you chuckling harder than a recruiter dodging ghosting complaints. They start by painting a gloomy economic picture, complete with workforce imbalanc…
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Shredded: Sparrow, Wingspan, Bullhorn, TargetRecruit, Tako, Workday, Recruit Holdings & More
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What Makes You Mention-Worthy? Winning Search Visibility in an AI-First World | Ep. 22
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48:13In this episode of Performance SEO Unpacked, host Ruchi Pardal sits down with Derek Woo, Director of Search Engine Optimization and App Store Optimization at Albertsons Companies. Derek’s deep SEO experience dates back to the early days of the internet, even before the term SEO was coined, giving him a unique perspective on the evolution of search.…
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Inside Verizon’s “Culture OS”: The HR Strategy Powering a Global Brand
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33:36Verizon is one of the biggest brands on the planet—but behind the scenes, it’s the people who keep it moving. In this episode, Steve West—VP and HR Business Partner for Consumer Sales—reflects on his own journey from recruiter to executive and shares his approach to building teams, developing talent, and leading with trust. Steve also shares: How V…
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Bias: AI vs. Human - Mobley v. Workday is Just the Beginning
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31:12In this episode, the boys chat with Jeff Pole, the big brain behind Warden AI, for a no-holds-barred chat about AI bias in talent acquisition. They sliced and diced a juicy report comparing AI’s quirks to good ol’ human prejudice, serving up some spicy legal takes on what happens when robots play HR. The trio threw shade at sloppy AI systems, stres…
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On this week’s show: 🔌 Bold yanks the plug on Monster’s Euro-zone job boards faster than you can say “thoughtful transition.” Spoiler: if you had job credits, they’re as good as Monopoly money now. 🤡 Jamie & Doug send a painfully boring email instead of showing their faces. JT’s advice? Ditch the letter, pick up a camera, and maybe lose the flannel…
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Live from UNLEASH America 2025, we’re serving up serious talent strategy with Meghan Rhatigan, VP of Talent Acquisition Experience at Marriott—and spoiler alert: job boards are dying, chatbots are rising, and recruitment will never be the same. Inside this episode: 🤖 The rise (and limits) of chatbots 🔍 Why some candidates still prefer search over a…
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Beyond Search Volume: SaaS Keyword Strategy That Fuels Real Business Results | Ep. 21
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15:51What if your keyword research could shape product development, uncover revenue potential, and spotlight entire user segments your product team never considered? ㅤ On Performance SEO Unpacked, host Ruchi Pardal is joined by Jennifer Long, Lead SEO Manager at SolarWinds, who brings a radically strategic lens to keyword research. She calls it “off-lab…
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From TD Garden to Yosemite: How Delaware North Hires Across 200+ Iconic Locations with Amy Duncan-Menendez and Laura Murray
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27:05At Delaware North, recruiting 20,000 employees annually across 200+ unique locations requires more than operational scale—it demands strategic clarity, brand cohesion, and relentless focus on candidate experience. In this episode of Talent All-Stars, Amy Duncan-Menendez, Vice President of Talent Acquisition and Global Innovation Center, and Laura M…
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In this episode, hosts start off with, what else, soccer snark, discussing Chelsea's Trump drama, then a little Tour de France trash-talk. Chad roasts Monster Europe's collapse, blasting Randstad and Apollo as "corporate cowards" ditching workers like bad dates. They dissect HelloWork's lawsuit against Indeed for yanking ATS feeds—Chad calls it a d…
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On this week's episode, Moe comes out hot and spills on "Coldplay-Gate," that viral kiss-cam fiasco where a couple (turns out, cheating execs from Astronomer) bolted like they saw a ghost. It's not just gossip—it's schadenfreude gold, highlighting how the C-suite plays by different rules. Joel highlights ZipRececruiter's most recent marketing strat…
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Shredded: Bold Holdings, ZipRecruiter, Perplexity, Ashby, Velocity Global, Employment Hero, Seek, & More
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What to Do If Your Brand Is Not Being Picked Up — And How Long Recovery Takes | Ep. 20
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10:52Nothing stinks quite like realizing your brand isn’t showing up in Google’s AI Overview, ChatGPT answers, or Perplexity snippets while competitors bask in the glory. In this solo session of Performance SEO Unpacked, host Ruchi Pardal strips away the mystery and lays out why AI engines ignore some brands and how to win back visibility. Drawing on tr…
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How Cushman & Wakefield Hires Globally—While Staying Fast, Flexible, and Locally Relevant | Danielle Kensinger, VP of Global Talent Acquisition
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22:07When you're hiring cleaners, commercial real estate brokers, and everyone in between—in dozens of countries—your recruiting strategy has to be both scalable and local. Danielle Kensinger, VP of Global Talent Acquisition at Cushman & Wakefield, shares how her team customizes talent acquisition strategies by region, role, and urgency—without losing s…
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Fixing the Candidate Pipeline with Alla Mezhvinsky
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45:10Live from UNLEASH America, it’s an unfiltered convo with Steve Bartel (CEO, Gem) and Alla Mezhvinsky (VP, Talent & Workplace, Glean)—and it’s not your average kumbaya on hiring trends. 🧠 From AI-fueled chaos to tech stack therapy sessions, we’re diving headfirst into: 🤖 Resume spam and deepfake candidates 💸 Scaling dreams on skeleton budgets 🧱 Plat…
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In this episode, Chad and Cheese return from RecFest with sunburns, stories, and just enough energy to unpack a week full of WTFs. They kick things off with a heartfelt tribute to their late friend Matt Lavery, proof that even these two have a soft side under the sarcasm. But don’t get too comfortable, there’s plenty of industry drama to dig into. …
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Shredded: Wibo, Job.com, Recruit Holdings, CareerBuilder, Monster, Ordio, LinkedIn, & More
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How Leaf Home Built a 15,000-Hire/Year Recruiting Machine from Scratch with Joe Leno, Senior Director of Recruiting
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20:42What happens when you drop a former agency recruiter into a hypergrowth environment with no budget, no ATS—and 15,000 hires to make? Joe Leno, Senior Director of Recruiting at Leaf Home, shares the inside story of how he scaled a grassroots recruiting operation into a full-fledged TA engine that powers one of the largest home improvement companies …
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In this episode, the boys roll out the red carpet for Ankit Kalda, a finance brainiac from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. They dive into the gig economy’s role as a financial lifeboat for laid-off workers, tossing around ideas like Uber drivers dodging debt faster than a bad Tinder date. The crew chews over how gig work reshapes th…
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This week on The Chad & Cheese Podcast: 💀 Job.com hits Chapter 11 – because apparently lighting $50-100 million on fire isn't a sustainable business strategy. Who knew? 🔁 Who's buying Job.com? Apparently Job.com! 🧠 CTO is owed $300K 🧃 Business model of doom. Imagine Fyre Festival for jobs 🔮 PE firms, VC money, zero logic – If you ever wanted a mast…
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Structure for the future: Schema, entities and search impact with Nick Pustay | Ep. 19
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23:39On this episode of Performance SEO Unpacked, host Ruchi Pardal sits down with Nick Pustay, Head of SEO at Scholastic, to tackle one of the most pressing topics in modern search: schema markup and entity optimization in the age of AI Overviews. With schema evolving from a “nice-to-have” to a “must-have,” Nick offers a real-world look at what it take…
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