The Chad & Cheese Podcast

The Shred is a weekly roundup of what’s making headlines in the world of employment. The Shred is brought to you today by Jobcase.

Chad and Joel, drag Meghan Rhatigan (VP of Talent Acquisition Experience at Marriott International) into the interrogation room to find out how a hospitality giant survives a global punch in the face.

Marriott used to live in a pre-2020 la-la land where millions of candidates just fell into their laps organically. Then the pandemic hit, the world shut down, and Marriott was caught flat-footed trying to fill 200,000 global roles using the same old clunky tech and slow-as-molasses hiring managers.

Enter Meghan and her organizational change management background to fix a "fat funnel" nightmare where the interview process alone took two agonizing weeks.


The "Legal AI" Secret Sauce


The ROI:


The 5-Million Candidate Bench


The Loyalty Program Hustle:

Listen and enjoy!

It is officially Joel-Free June, which means Joel is off on an extended European holiday while Chad holds down the fort with two brilliant industry heavyweights: Emi Beredugo and JT O'Donnell.

From boardroom coups and high-stakes acquisitions to massive corporate grifts, the trio dives deep into a chaotic week of HR technology news.


Stepstone's Plot Twist


JobGet Snaps Up Ripple Match


The Job.com Meltdown


The Point Solution Funeral

Billionaires, Layoffs, & Job Slop


AI Lost in Translation

Listener Shoutout: A massive shoutout to TA champion Terry Dewey for slashing their organization's Indeed spend over the past 12 months by putting our podcast strategies to work! Keep the cash, Terry, but feel free to ship that bottle of whiskey to the studio anyway.

Don't miss Chad and Emi live at Recfest UK on July 2nd at Knebworth Park! Emi is taking over the Innovate Stage as MC, while Chad and a freshly returned Joel will be bringing the noise to the Disrupt Stage.

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The Shred is a weekly roundup of what’s making headlines in the world of employment. The Shred is brought to you today by Jobcase.

HR’s Most Dangerous Podcast Just Dropped a Big Gulp of Truth. 🥤

Think automated hiring is just a cold, heartless robot out to steal your corporate badge? Think again.

Chad and Cheese sit down with Rachel Allen, Senior Director of TA at 7-Eleven. She manages over 110,000 hires a year and automated 95% of their store recruitment.

The result? They slashed time-to-hire from 10+ days to under three (and sometimes three hours, because speed kills).


Meet "Rita": The AI assistant so good, store managers literally asked to meet her in person. (Awkward...)


"Help is Coming": How to drop a massive tech overhaul on your staff without causing a mutiny.


The Marketing Hijack: How the TA team hitched a ride on product shipments to score free recruitment marketing.


Accidental Quality: How solving for pure speed accidentally fixed their crap candidate quality and retention problems.

"Where we mess up sometimes is we lead with the technology—the shiny new thing—versus what are we solving for?"

— Rachel Allen, 7-Eleven



Whether you’re drowning in high-volume resumes or sweating bullets that a chatbot is coming for your sourcing desk, Rachel drops a masterclass on putting humans where they actually matter.