Chad Sowash

Indeed Finally Has a CTO Again. But Where's the Chief Product Officer? | Job Board Doctor After operating without a Chief Technology Officer for more than four years, Indeed has made a significant leadership move. Is it enough?

Why have things at Indeed been so sloppy?

Half-baked products, failures to launch, renaming old products and charging more under the label of INNOVATION.

Julie hits the nail on the head with this article.
Enjoy!

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Three US fighter jets accidentally shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, military says | CNN Three US fighter jets crashed in Kuwait on Monday due to an “apparent friendly fire incident,” the US military said in a statement.

No FIRE is FRIENDLY...

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FAA Shuts Down Airspace After U.S. Military Laser Downs CBP Drone Over Texas The deployment of the military’s anti-drone laser weapon to tackle cartel drones had prompted the shutdown of airspace over El Paso, Texas, earlier this month.

When the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing.

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US and Israel launch strikes on Iran, as Trump says ‘massive’ campaign underway | CNN The United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran Saturday – marking a major escalation following weeks of negotiations between US and Iranian officials over the country’s nuclear program.

Imagine giving this guy a "Peace Prize"?

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Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguards Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously threatened to remove the firm from the department's supply chain.

Oh look, a tech CEO with a backbone.

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I was left unsupervised with Emi and J.T. this week's episode:
🚀 The Stepstone Group’s "Record" Growth
🎮 Who’d You Rather? with Kombo and Humand
🤖 Bots Harass
🏢 IBM's COBOL Disaster
🥇 Olympic "Magnum Sized" Chaos
❄️ The Nantucket "Snow Report"

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ICYMI

Indeed's use of employer's candidate disposition data aka "hiring signals" seems to be a FCRA issue.

Towards Justice's Rachel Dempsey gives us some insights - www.chadcheese.com/post/unfoldi...

Becoming Choosable w/ James Ellis Employer branding is broken and James Ellis is here to fix it. In this episode, we torch “spray & pray” applications, call out ATS robots, and explain why pretty career sites don’t make you choosable....

James Ellis joined Chad & Cheese to talk about his new book Becoming Choosable.

Hard truths:
• Your company is being ignored
• ATS automation didn’t fix hiring
• Real differentiation beats more job ads every time

Want better hires? Be worth choosing. www.chadcheese.com/post/becomin...

YouTube video by Sky News The X Effect: Elon Musk, X and the British right-wing

Twitter vs X... How has the platform changed since Musk took over?

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Indeed Smart Screen Dumps Indeed’s “smart” screening hits turbulence — launches, pullbacks, and black-box scoring raising eyebrows. The boys unpack the mess, plus LinkedIn’s comedy pivot, Google monetizing Jobs, Phenom’s AI sh...

Indeed rolled out “smart” screening… then hit the brakes.

We also unpack:
• LinkedIn going full comedy
• Google monetizing Jobs
• Phenom bargain-hunting
• Microsoft talks white-collar extinction
• And the growing legal risk of AI (cough) Eightfold AI

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YouTube video by CNBC Television Tariff study fallout: Are Americans footing the bill?

How much of the "tariff tab" are Americans paying?
Keil Institute says - 96%
Yale Budget Lab says - 96%
NBER says - 94%
Goldman Sachs says - 88%

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Stephen Colbert Finds a Place to File CBS’s Surprise Statement “I don’t even know what to do with this,” Colbert said about the network’s news release on a scrapped interview with a Democratic politician, before putting the paper in a dog waste bag.

Here's a look at some of the highlights worth watching from late-night TV.

AI isn’t making work easier, it’s intensifying it – researchers say teams are now facing 'unsustainable' workloads, cognitive strain, and higher levels of burnout While workers report productivity gains with AI, that means they’re faced with bigger workloads

Most companies are using AI as a tool instead of an integrated part of their systems, which is why this is happening.

"AI isn't going to make work easier, new research suggests, it’ll make it much more intense."

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Unfolding the Eightfold Lawsuit Bots “enriching hiring and society”? Sure, if by scraping your data, guessing your personality, and ghosting you with a smiley match score. Chad & Cheese break down the Eightfold lawsuit with attorney...

Unfolding the Eightfold Lawsuit.

Atty Rachel Dempsey unpacks the lawsuit.

If a machine can predict your career, personality, and future… shouldn’t you at least get to see the report?
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Indeed's Pricing Black Box Recruit kicks things off by squeezing employers with Indeed’s black-box pricing just as the market tightens. Then it’s pure chaos: HR tech shakeups, AI hype rattling SaaS, bots invading job search, an...

Indeed’s black-box pricing. Fewer jobs, tighter budget, higher costs. Employers, you feeling the love yet?

This episode spirals from there:
• Workday's reality doesn't translate into AI
• Are OpenAI partnerships a trap?
• EU starts ejecting out of US tech market
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Quincy talks about how and why hiring is broken, the pure lack of accountability, and... go figure we had to talk about the impact of AI...

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Opposition to US has hardened in western Europe after Greenland threat, poll finds Large majorities in six nations express antipathy to Trump’s US and support European self-assertion

Can you blame them?

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YouTube video by Hindustan Times Sanchez Goes Nuclear On Cam: 'Migrant' Musk Attacked As Spanish Declares Social Media 'Failed State'

Spain isn't just talking the talk, they're walking the walk...

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Alphabet to Blow Past Investor Expectations for AI Spending Alphabet Inc. topped projections for quarterly revenue and outlined an ambitious capital spending plan, far surpassing predictions, leveraging its growth to build out the data centers and infrastructu...

Google Search isn't dying, it's financing AI expansion.

“We’re seeing our AI investments & infrastructure drive $$$ and growth across the board,” CEO Sundar Pichai said “Search saw more usage than ever before, with AI continuing to drive an expansionary moment.”

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Lekker bitneuken op één zinnetje van Indeed, of waarom ik een grafhekel aan marketing heb - RecruitmentMatters Dit staat er in een document van Indeed over Disposition data:

Brilliant article...

I love that Marc Drees doesn't allow Indeed to bullsh!t us all.

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Resist and Unsubscribe

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YouTube video by MS NOW 'The president will feel this': Prof G's case for a strike against big tech

Resist and Unsubscribe...

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Are Job Boards Solving the Hiring Problem? Are job boards fixing hiring or just selling more clicks? 🤔 Chad & Cheese welcome Lou Goodman (*Job Board Revolution*) and Jobiqo CEO Martin Lenz to torch volume-based hiring, “quality vs. qualified,”...

‼️Job boards swear they’re solving hiring
‼️Employers swear they want “quality”
‼️Candidates swear at everyone

Lou Goodman & Jobiqo CEO Martin Lenz unpack clicks vs. outcomes, “quality vs. qualified,” AI agents, and why the whole system is ripe for disruption.

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SmartRecruiters 2026 kickoff in Mallorca.

How will they leverage being acquired by SAP? More to come.

Demond Wilson, Lamont on ‘Sanford and Son,’ Dies at 79 A guest stint on 'All in the Family' paved the way for his six-season run on the legendary NBC sitcom.

Come on 2026, Bob Weir, Catherine O'Hare and now Lamont!

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YouTube video by The Daily Show Jon on Alex Pretti's Killing, DHS vs. Video Evidence & MAGA's Gun Rights Surrender | The Daily Show

Don't believe your lyin' eyes?

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Next stop on the CLASS ACTION train... Eightfold AI

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Europe warns of 'dangerous downward spiral' after Trump threatens tariffs over Greenland The eight European countries targeted by U.S. President Donald Trump for a 10% tariff for opposing American control of Greenland have criticized the move in an unusually strong joint statement, warnin...

One more time for the people in the back... AMERICANS PAY THE TARIFFS!

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