Indeed Flunks IQ Test
It's Corona time! On this week's show, Indeed flunks an IQ test, Tengai, the recruiting robot, passes its validation test, the world's immune system is getting tested, and Chad is feeling testy.
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Intro:
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Chad:
You can keep that Corona shit to yourself.
Joel:
Oh, yeah, it's Corona time. Welcome to the Purell edition of the Chad and Cheese podcast. I'm your cohost, Joel Flu-Shot-Baller Cheeseman.
Chad:
And this is Chad Quarantine Sowash.
Joel:
On this week's episode, Indeed gets an IQ test, Tengai takes a validity test, and everyone's immune systems are being tested. Grab a bar of soap and wash for at 20 seconds people. We'll be right back after a word from JobAdX.
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Chad:
I literally just went to the bathroom and I washed my hands for 20 seconds. I had plenty of time to come back. Thank you, JobAdX. I appreciate it.
Joel:
That's why I picked that ad, dude, so everyone could go get those germs off those hands baby.
Chad:
Good public service announcement, I appreciate that.
Joel:
It's Corona time, baby. Shout outs!
Chad:
Yes. Okay, so right out of the gate, I'm going to give a huge shout out to one of our sponsors, our transcription sponsor, Disability Solutions. So PepsiCo, who is a client of Disability Solutions, they've hired thousands, that's thousands with an 'S,' of individuals with disabilities, have retained them at higher rates and continue to drive hiring through the most diverse single-demographic in the world. That's individuals with disabilities.
Chad:
The US Government's Office of Federal Contract Compliance and Programs under the Department of Labor has awarded PepsiCo with the DOL Gold Excellence in Disability award. This is the first year that they're doing this, but what this does is it's almost like bringing back one of the old awards that they had is they're kind of placing Pepsi in this security dome and saying, "look, you don't have to worry about audits for five years," which is fucking amazing.
Joel:
When you said "security dome," I automatically thought like coronavirus protection. It's the kind of world we live in.
Chad:
Protection from audits, which is probably in some cases worse than the coronavirus depending on where you're at in the world.
Joel:
Those awards sound impressive, so way to go.
Chad:
Yeah. Good job Disability Solutions.
Joel:
Good job. Have you seem their SHRM commercial?
Chad:
No.
Joel:
So it's all about diversity and inclusion.
Chad:
Uh-huh (affirmative).
Joel:
Your wife should love it and most people will. They scan through four or five different offices and they have different diverse people in each office and talks about diversity. All the numbers you just started to rattle off, like retention rates and all that good stuff.
Chad:
Yeah.
Joel:
So yeah, SHRM is hitting the DNI stuff really hard, so the time is right apparently for all that good stuff.
Chad:
The time is right, yeah. She's not the very big SHRM lover because of them taking Koch brother money. So yeah, we'll go ahead and we'll go with that. Great ad, great ad, but we think you're full of shit, SHRM.
Joel:
Ouch, man.
Chad:
Hello.
Joel:
Shout out to LinkedIn. I'm thirsty for some Kool-Aid. Someone posted on LinkedIn, imagine that, about LinkedIn sending a congratulatory box with a little water thing and notes and some other stuff saying congratulations on the new job. So somewhere in LinkedIn's algorithm, they're seeing when people change jobs and they're sending little gift packets, which is really great marketing.
Chad:
Yeah. That's pretty cool.
Joel:
So shout out to them for working that algorithm in the right way.
Chad:
Yeah, no question. I don't think they have... Maybe they do have my snail mail address. I never thought about that. I don't think that I've ever put my actual physical address into LinkedIn. I'm going to have to check that out.
Joel:
Well, they probably have work addresses if it's a big company.
Chad:
Yeah. Yeah. Good point. Good point. Big shout out to Brandon Ford, the chief accelerator director at Lubrizol. We met Brandon at The Gathering and became fast friends. Wanted to give him a big shout out, he's a new listener. Great people and amazing times at The Gathering, great meeting you Brandon.
Joel:
And shout out to his beard, it's a glorious thing. I love it.
Chad:
It is, yeah.
Joel:
Shout out to Levi's, they not only make a fantastic denim wear, they announced paid family leave for their workers.
Chad:
Woo-hoo! Yeah, that's good shit.
Joel:
So a step in the right direction there in the retail space.
Chad:
Good shit.
Joel:
Good job, Levi's.
Chad:
Shout out to Steven Rothberg who loves the Voices podcasts. They're about 10-20 minute pieces of conversations we have with awesome fucking people. You can check out the latest, it's called Culture Is The New Discrimination with Robert Ruff. It's about 16 minutes long and it's a great segment of conversation. Having guys like that come on with their opinion and then we just talked to Rick Carsley from IKEA, a pod that actually dropped today, he had an entirely different opinion on it. So it's awesome to not just talk to a set of people that think one specific way, but we have varying opinions. And again, you just continue the conversation.
Joel:
And now I just got really hungry for some Swedish meatballs from the IKEA cafeteria.
Chad:
Oh, God. Damn it.
Joel:
Shout out to Dan Price. No one will know who this cat is, but we talked, I don't know, a few months ago, about a company that gave everyone a minimum of $70,000 a year salaries. So, that's big news.
Chad:
Even himself.
Joel:
Yeah, even himself. He's a millionaire, but that's beside the point. The company is Gravity Payments. As a result of this, in terms of the benefits, they're seeing three times growth, I believe, in the last one or two years from that, retention rate's through the roof. No surprise there, their Glassdoor score is 4.5 out of 5 stars, they're doing all the right things. So I just wanted to give him a little shout out. Dan Price, keep it up there in Seattle, good vibes to you. Love it.
Chad:
Yeah and $70,000 is not a lot of cash for that market, so to be able to have, first and foremost, that kind of pay transparency and that equity throughput the organization is awesome, but for people to be retained only making $70,000 a year... And I say only, but you've got to remember Seattle's a little bit more expensive than most of the markets like we're in, in Indianapolis, so that's pretty amazing.
Joel:
Yep. He had a great quote and story and to get it right, five years after they've initiated this, the business has tripled for the company. But Dan Price had a quote, he said, "people are starving or being laid off or being taken advantage of so that somebody can have a penthouse at the top of a tower in New York in gold chairs." It's bullshit basically. So we like Dan.
Chad:
Yes.
Joel:
Let's get him on the show and talk about this sit.
Chad:
That's a good idea, we should do that.
Joel:
Because we don't have enough content, goddammit.
Chad:
Yeah, no shit. We'll talk about that later.
Joel:
Yeah.
Chad:
So somebody else we also like is the JobBoard Doctor, we haven't heard from him in a little while. He tweeted, I quote, "#chadcheese smartly pointing out that candidate retention is often up when formally incarcerated are hired."
Chad:
That's right, there's no reason why we shouldn't be looking at individuals who have been in prison and have served their debt to society. Ban the box. If it makes sense, Get them into your organization. Stupidest thing in the world that we still have individuals who have been in prison, they come out and they can't feed their family. What do we expect them to do at that point, right?
Joel:
Go back to jail.
Chad:
Yeah. Yeah. And again, putting money in the Koch brother's tiller. Go ahead.
Joel:
By the way, that's also part of the SHRM ad that you haven't seen and the organization that you hate. I'm going to say adios to Facebook chatbots.
Chad:
Oh, yeah.
Joel:
We talk quite a bit about chatbots, but Facebook making some major changes this week. Many of you may remember Poncho, which was the chatbot automation weather app from back in the day. It was a big epic fail. People really don't like automated messages from companies or apps. So chatbots take a bit hit I guess this week in terms of chatbot sort of shutting that whole thing down and moving in a different direction for their discovery on Messenger.
Chad:
Yeah, I think what we'll see is a movement from that to voice-activated. We talked to Gordon Collier this week about voice interaction on job search. I think that's going to be ubiquitous when it comes to just needing information. I don't need you to just push information to me, we've been used to pushing information forever. All I want to do is when I want it, I want to ask for it. And from a voice standpoint whether you have your phone or your Google Assistants or Alexa, I think that's what we're going to be transitioning to.
Joel:
And speaking of push, I want to give a quick shout out to Talkpush.
Chad:
Push it!
Joel:
Our buddies put out a really great blog post this week about surviving the impending recession.
Chad:
Nice.
Joel:
Spoiler alert, automation is the future folks, in case you haven't been listening to the show.
Chad:
Go figure. Heather DeLand, or DeLand, DeLand? I don't know, she's over in the UK. You could say it a bunch of different ways. She's a new listener from AIA Worldwide. Thanks for listening, now go and make sure that all of your office is listening right now. together right now. Make sure they're all listening.
Joel:
All right, and then we're going to talk about robots in this show, but I had to give a special shout out to our robot friend Sophie.
Chad:
Oh, yeah. She's four!
Joel:
She turns four years old. This is the robot with the transparent head. She did a really funny video with Will Smith a year or two ago, which you should check out if you haven't seen that yet. She has legs and arms now, so it's getting creepier and creepier by the year. Happy birthday, Sophie. Can't wait for your fifth birthday and your tenth birthday when you get automated weapons and kill all the humans. I'm excited.
Chad:
More of that to come. And an anonymous shout out to all of those people out there who keep us informed. I know that yours does, my phone blows up when anything is happening. I mean, anything. So keep up the good work Chad Cheese Heads and keep the intel flying our way.
Joel:
That's a deep throat shout out if you will.
Chad:
Yes.
Joel:
For you Nixon fans out there.
Chad:
And for all of those who want to be on the show and we've been getting shit tons of requests, thank you so much, thank you, I have four words for you: be patient and thank you.
Joel:
Well, I'm out of shout outs. I'm going to mention my first travel trip.
Chad:
Yes.
Joel:
I've already talked a couple times about a trip to Vancouver. The name of the event has a name, it's Recruitment Jam, which makes me want to breakout the MC Hammer pants and the Michael Jackson zipper jacket for my trip there and my presentation. So Vancouver April 6-7, I'll be out there for Recruitment Jam.
Chad:
I think they should go with the Space Jam motif really. I mean, that to me makes more sense. We got to also remember that all of our travel brought to you by Shaker Recruitment Marketing. That's right, gear again upgraded this season, kids. Soccer Jersey, North Face vest, Nike, [inaudible 00:13:34]. I mean, we've got Shaker stuff out the wazoo. Not to mention last year's backpacks and this stuff.
Joel:
Soccer Jersey.
Chad:
Yeah, no it's good stuff, so thanks for keeping us outfitted Shaker.
Joel:
I'm rocking the vest right now and frankly, for men of a certain age, I think the vest is a really good look.
Chad:
The problem is, he's only rocking the vest. Yes, so let's put our hands together and do a little prayer, wish, or whatever it is, Unleash and TA Tech has a mega conference happening in London this month currently for Death Match by Pontoon Solutions at TA technology. We have JobSync, Get Optimal, SBOJ, that's "jobs" backwards.
Joel:
SBOJ.
Chad:
And SonicJobs, who just joined into the fray.
Joel:
Oh, Sonic.
Chad:
They're all competing for the European Grand Champion and to get the Chad and Cheese Chain of Champions, which has arrived at the Cheeseman residence this week, right?
Joel:
Chains or Champions in the house.
Chad:
Woo hoo!
Joel:
I've been wearing that along with my Shaker vest, it's a really nice look.
Chad:
We need that picture. We need that picture. So you can get your tickets at tatech.org and unleashgroup.io. Once again, big thanks to our friends at TA Tech and Pontoon Solutions for making Death Match actually happen. Topics!
Joel:
Topics! Neuvoo tells ClickIQ to take a hike this week.
Chad:
Yes, would you like to read the actual statement or would you like me to?
Joel:
I can read it.
Chad:
Go ahead.
Joel:
It was in their LinkedIn feed.
Chad:
Yes, yep.
Joel:
Okay, here we go. Neuvoo says, "After much thought and consideration, we regret to announce that Neuvoo/Talent.com will be discontinuing our partnership with ClickIQ. This will take effect as of 9th March 2020. This decision was not taken lightly as we strongly believe in the power of collaboration within the TA Tech industry where it makes sense. On this occasion with ClickIQ, it has not proven to be successful or mutually beneficial." Ouch.
Joel:
"As Neuvoo/Talent.com and ClickIQ do share many mutual clients, please take this post as confirmation that your company jobs, be they organic or sponsored, will no longer be visible via ClickIQ on Neuvoo Worldwide. Being that we believe in the idea of transparent marketplaces within the performance-based advertising space, we will continue to work with the other programmatic platforms across the globe."
Chad:
"Other."
Joel:
"A notification email to all our valued clients will be going out on this subject detailing how you can still maintain your candidate traffic flow," blah, blah, blah. And this was the kicker, "Again, as of 9th 2020 March, Neuvoo/Talent.com job seeker traffic will no longer be available through ClickIQ nor its channel partner Indeed.com."
Chad:
That's the big kick in the nuts right there, kids. This really has nothing to do with ClickIQ until Indeed bought the store. That's what it comes down to. Not to mention, I know for a fact that Neuvoo has been trying and ClickIQ has been trying to be able to make this work, but it's one of those relationships that just wasn't going to work. I mean, if you can think of it, you know how aggressive Indeed's sales people are. One of those things that we've seen over the years who are selling against their partners, right?
Joel:
Yep.
Chad:
And it's like, don't spend money with them, just give it to us and we'll make sure you get your talent.com clicks, right?
Joel:
Yep.
Chad:
So it's like, funnel through us, we will be the agency and then hopefully talent.com will receive the clicks overall. And that's not something that obviously talent.com is very happy about.
Joel:
Yeah and don't forget, people don't want all that data being funneled and seen by Indeed.com. We talked a little bit a few months or weeks ago about ZipRecruiter allegedly saying we're the hell off this thing, because if Indeed thinks we're going to show our data, they can go ahead and piss up a flagpole. So yeah, these big companies don't want to share the data with Indeed.com and who can blame them?
Chad:
Yeah, it makes no sense. Especially since there are so many different programmatic networks and platforms that are out there as it is.
Joel:
Exactly.
Chad:
I mean, we've heard the rumors around Zip, but every time we reach out to Zip, they don't have the guts to actually tell us what they're doing. Fucking weak sauce, Zip, very weak sauce. This isn't surprising to me and to see these types of brands leave, I would think that the Adzunas of the world and some of the other organizations that are out there who probably feel the same way, they're going to make moves. They're going to have to make moves or maybe they actually get more clicks out of this because the other ones are going away.
Joel:
So the question is, do more programmatic companies look to sell because the value of them is going up, do they remain independent because that's where the value is because if people can trust them, they'll continue to use them?
Chad:
We know, over the years, that Indeed, they have a history of playing the Trojan horse game. And there's no way I would ever be comfortable with allowing them to have any of my data whatsoever to be able to prospectively scheme off of me when I'm trying to actually compete against them. It just doesn't make any sense.
Joel:
Yeah. Yeah. Basically, if you're a job site, that's a pretty broad term, don't go buy a programmatic solution because the value of it will go down because no one will trust you. If you're an agency or some other conduit that plays nice with everyone, I guess buying that programmatic solution is okay.
Chad:
Yes. I would tend to agree. And the thing that I'm not agreeing with, not only are they showing the industry just where ClickIQ is headed, but they're doing even more by starting the rebranding process, so ClickIQ, from what we've seen and different sources of what we've heard, is going to become IndeedIQ.
Joel:
We've seen screenshots, right?
Chad:
Yeah, we've seen screenshots. Do these idiots want this to fail or is it just me? I mean, optics at the very least, right? It doesn't make any sense to me.
Joel:
Yeah, that doesn't really scream Switzerland, does it?
Chad:
Yeah. No, we're going to be totally unbiased. Indeed's going to be there on the other side, they're not going to touch your data. And ClickIQ, I mean, I'm sorry, IndeedIQ, will make sure that everything is done right. Again, optics guys, if that is really the case in what's happening, that's probably the stupidest fucking move you could make.
Joel:
Yep, yep. I was talking to someone that's been around for a long time, pretty high up and we were talking about the impending recession, because that seems to be a thing that with the stock market and coronavirus and all that good stuff people are talking about. Anyways, his prediction was when recession comes, Indeed is going to take a big shit. Not that recession is coming for sure, but recessions have a way of calling the herd and it'll be really interesting to see all these businesses and all these pieces of spaghetti that Indeed has thrown at the wall to see when the economy goes to hell what exactly happens to Indeed, ZipRecruiter and the others.
Chad:
Yeah, Indeed will tighten up and start to refocus. That's all there is to it. They've got a shit ton of cash, they will start cutting the frayed edges and get back to business.
Joel:
And layoffs.
Chad:
Yeah. But talking about rebranding, this is something that actually the Job Board Doctor threw our way, has Snag reverted back to the Snagajob brand after spending all of that money on snag.co and trying to push toward more of an app environment?
Joel:
Yeah, so listeners might remember we actually had the CEO on I think when they basically launched a marketplace. They still had post jobs for retail, part-time work, et cetera. They were big vision talking about platform, where it's like an Uber Works or any of the other platforms that are out there. And they had a URL snag.co, which was their new thing and they launched an app in certain areas. Snag.co now goes to snagajob.com, so from that perspective it looks like they're going to keep the job posting business, the old traditional way is not going away.
Joel:
However, I also came across late-February Snag Shift or Snagajob Shift. So the solution is still there and if you go to the app store and search Snagajob Shift, you'll see their platform site. It doesn't look like it's restricted by region, it doesn't look like it's super out there.
Joel:
There's one press release that I've seen out in the world, but there isn't any sort of major PR push or news push. It looks like they may have just said, "hey, we have the technology, let's just launch this secondary app and see what happens." Maybe they have some customers using it. It looks like Five Guys is using it in terms of the screenshots. So I guess they've definitely refocused on the posting business, which was their bread and butter and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. But they do continue to have their toe dipped in the marketplace for retail hourly seasonal jobs.
Chad:
Yeah. If anybody knows what the fuck Snag is doing out there, or I'm sorry, Snagajob, please, feel free to fire some stuff our way. It seems like they are a headless chicken at this point.
Joel:
If their relatively new CEO wants to come on the show and tell us what the fuck is going on, you're more than welcome to join us.
Chad:
It's time for a break.
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Joel:
Acquisitions.
Chad:
So this is from Yahoo Finance, "M3 USA has acquired NAS Recruitment to expand its portfolio into recruitment marketing." Into recruitment marketing, not that it was doing that shit before. "Stone-Goff Partners announced that it has sold NAS Recruitment Innovation ("NAS") to M3 USA, a leader in healthcare digital solutions for hospitals, health systems, and physicians." And this doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever.
Joel:
It's a bit of a head-scratcher for sure. The only synergy really is they have a physician recruitment business.
Chad:
Yeah.
Joel:
So do they take the recruitment marketing and just sell it into hospitals? I know NAS has a fairly strong footprint with some hospital clients.
Chad:
Right.
Joel:
But the NAS thing is really close to home for me, because when I started out in the business, ESPAN/JobOptions, our sister company was NAS.
Chad:
Right.
Joel:
And we were both owned by the gun group out of Cleveland. So I've seen NAS as a huge company when display advertising, newspaper advertising was really at its zenith in the mid-late-90s.
Chad: