He's the Prince of Programmatic. Well,.. A Prince... Rob Prince.
On this episode, we dive into programmatic and all things UK with our good buddy Rob Prince, VP of sales at TalentNexus. Coming out of COVID, employers are hungrier than ever to leverage the latest in job distribution tech to fill these hard-to-fill positions and a ton of other topics and opinions around IndeedIQ, Broadbean, Sir Richard Collins, Pando IQ, chatbots, Madeline Laurano's programmatic research, Stepstone buying Appcast, a little VONQ, and where does LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter and Google for Jobs stand in the UK?
While the US is usually 5 years ahead of the Europeans, Rob is always good at making us feel behind the times. He'll probably do the same for you, if you'd only listen to this NEXXT exclusive.
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INTRO (1s):
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Joel (21s):
Oh yeah. Cheerio and pip pip. What's up everybody. This is Joel Cheeseman of the Chad and Cheese podcast as always. I'm joined by my favorite person in the world Chad Sowash and today we are super excited to welcome Rob Prince back to the show. Rob is VP of Sales now at Talent Nexus. Rob dropped some English sexy on our ass.
Rob (48s):
Always a pleasure chaps, thanks for having me.
Joel (53s):
Oh, the pleasure is all ours.
Chad (55s):
A little bit more background for, for our listeners who don't know Rob, and if you don't know, Rob, you should know, Rob. Rob gives a little more background on you. Just the sexy parts. Go ahead. Walks in the beach.
Joel (1m 7s):
Sexy people
Rob (1m 10s):
So the sexist part is the recruitment advertising part.
Chad (1m 14s):
So where's the buzzer?
Rob (1m 20s):
Yeah. Yeah. So I'm VP sales at Talent Nexus. So we're a programmatic recruitment advertising agency. So we, when did we last see each other? Like two, is approaching two years ago now, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So we've done the whole of COVID since you were over here, when you checked out the European recruitment marketing scene. So yeah, catch me up since then, I guess. I mean, what's happened everything that related to COVID has happened. So that's, that's all done a full circle and we're now in a completely different kind of market. And programmatic is finally getting somewhere in the UK, which is lovely.
Chad (1m 59s):
Well talk about that. The, the adoption in the UK, I mean, here in the U S adoption is slow, no matter what HR talent acquisition, it doesn't matter. But what we have seen is all of these companies now who desperately need talent in their front doors or working remote or whatever the hell, they can't find them. So instead of just going to Indeed like idiots and spending a shit ton of cash, they're not finding enough there. So, they're remembering that somebody knocked on their door to talk about programmatic and they're starting to do it. So we're seeing, I mean, some, some big spikes in adoption for programmatic on this side of the pond.
Chad (2m 40s):
What are you seeing in England, UK, Europe overall?
Rob (2m 43s):
Yeah, definitely a big uptick. So we, I mean, for context, we've had the busiest month in May that we've kind of ever had, that's partly because programmatic is getting adopted more and it is partly because just suddenly pretty much every industry is open for business now here. So a lot of companies are hiring again, where they weren't before. So a combination of those two things means that, there's just a lot of money flying around in advertising at the moment.
Chad (3m 10s):
That you can't spend?
Rob (3m 11s):
Which you can't spend. I mean, because competition is way up candidate availability is way down. Yeah. I mean, to get, to give you an idea, I spoke to a care organization the other morning, and in the afternoon I spoke to a hospitality organization and both of them were convinced that the other sector was stealing all their candidates. And So I think what's happening is there's just less candidates available at the moment. It's yeah, it's mad. I mean, there's suddenly a real lack of candidates, which I think, I mean, I think recruitment and HR people might get that, but a lot of senior management, the impression I'm getting is genuinely baffled that there aren't candidates queuing out the door for jobs.
Chad (3m 47s):
Yeah. There's always gotta be a bad guy though. Right? It's like the guy across the street, the government, somebody screwing me. Right? But it has nothing to do with the perspective wages or this shitty job that they don't want to come back to or anything like that. Right?
Rob (4m 1s):
Yeah and it's also like, there's a very social aspects, I think. Because now no, so here we've got like pubs are open again, you can go to the gym, you can go on holiday within the UK, at least, whereas before people were in lockdown and still looking, because frankly there wasn't a huge amount else that they could do. Like on people's personal list of priorities, making a life-changing decision, like moving job is probably quite low down for the first time in awhile. So yeah. Combine that with the economic factor that the programmatic bit of it, the way that job boards are now structured. Yeah. We're in for a weird few months, that's for sure.
Joel (4m 35s):
On the, on the Talent Nexus side of things, for those who don't know sort of what is your guys' focus and it has that changed at all? And then I'd like to know the sort of the breakdown for me is you have like your knowledge-based workers and then you have your sort of essential, hourly seasonal folks and wondering what your perception is on your previous comments, on how those two groups are separate if at all?
Rob (4m 57s):
Sure. So, so in terms of Talent Nexus is focus. Long-term, it's the same as every programmatic agency, which is we want to do world-class programmatic advertising for recruiters, that we want to kind of set the standard in what's possible. For us, realistically in Europe, one of the biggest priorities is blending duration based advertising and performance-based advertising. There's a massive split at the moment. I don't know if it's exactly the same in the US certainly in Europe, you kind of have to manage your job board credits and your performance media completely separately. What we're working on at the moment is bringing those two things together, so you can accurately measure a 30 day posting on Total Jobs versus a 50 pounds spend on Indeed.
Rob (5m 40s):
For example, in the short term, kind of forget about all of that and, think that our goal is basically making programmatic as accessible to as many people as possible to fix what is a very, very direct hiring Indeed at the moment. So we're focusing a lot on people who are using Indeed for the first time or a certainly like rapidly increasing their spending on Indeed, because as we know, but a lot of recruiters don't, if the way Indeed is built as a performance platform, it's kind of built for your average organization, which works in most cases, but pretty much always means that you're missing out on kind of 40 to 50% of performance.
Rob (6m 20s):
Because when you use an off the shelf version of performance, it's built for the average user, right? And no organization actually is the average user. So guiding people through that, making sure that they're not wasting budget, make sure they're getting the best possible ROI is really important at the moment where people have got really punchy hiring goals. The last thing they can be doing is kind of wasting money and using inefficient methods to get candidates.
Chad (6m 45s):
Yeah. So when you talk about Indeed real quick now, do you have to use an entirely separate platform with Indeed IQ to be able to manage that, which makes it more of a pain in the ass for clients, or is everything, can you do that out of a single platform today?
Rob (7m 1s):
Yeah. That's a great question. There's basically three levels that you can use at the moment. You could, you can basically apply the correct principles to the way that Indeed is natively set up. So by that, I mean actually using campaigns, splitting out your budget manually, making sure that, you know, whether it's by location or seniority or job type you're breaking your roles out and managing your budget. That'd be like part A. Some organizations find that using, like the Indeed IQ version, can add a layer of, it's not so much functionality as accessibility. Like it visualizes the data in a nicer way, gives you just sort of prettier reports.
Rob (7m 43s):
And then if he wants to truly optimize a campaign. So if you want to do what we do, which is get an extra kind of 40-50% of improvement from a campaign, that's where you want to put your feed of jobs through someone like us, and then send it on to Indeed, because there's a layer of functionality that indigenous doesn't support yet, that would be, you know, breaking performance down by a job by job basis. So like really, really granular splitting out budgets, splitting out objectives, knowing that you might want, say 10 applications for your junior exec role, but you might want five applications for your senior engineer role, but knowing that there can be much more expensive, much more, you know, much harder to find or whatever. So, yeah, there's a few levels.
Rob (8m 23s):
The trick is picking the one that's right, and actually matches what you're trying to achieve. So there's no point going super complex if actually there's, you know, an easy 30% of savings to be made just by doing the basics. Right.
Joel (8m 33s):
So, Indeed acquired Click IQ from your neck of the woods, correct?
Rob (8m 37s):
Sure.
Joel (8m 37s):
In order to create Indeed IQ curious, what in your neck of the woods, what was the impression of Click IQ? Were they a superior product? Has the transition over to Indeed been kind of a cluster fuck? Or has it been smooth? What's your take from where you sit?
Chad (8m 51s):
And shout out to Richard Collins.
Joel (8m 53s):
Sir Richard, in his Maserati listening now.
Rob (8m 58s):
You say my neck of the woods, he lives literally sort of two or three minutes down the road from my brother. So we're, really incubating recruitment marketing talent in our neck of the woods. So what was the impression? So there's definitely a lot of skepticism around like Indeed buying Click IQ. What, one of the things that Click IQ used to push was that, where Indeed doesn't perform, we've got access to all these other channels, right? So regardless of exactly what split they were giving you, the sales message was there are these other channels available. Now once Indeed owns that platform, I think it's fair enough that like some eyebrows were raised over to exactly how that would work?
Rob (9m 42s):
So that's the first bit, I guess, it hasn't been received fantastically in that sense, because I think if people were using Click IQ because they wanted third party intervention, then they've lost that because it's now first party intervention. That said, I know loads of organizations that bought Click IQ and have stuck with Indeed IQ. I also know plenty of organizations that we've started managing since being on Indeed IQ, because as I said, like, they're just different things. Click IQ and Indeed IQ are like out the box functional ways to kind of boost your reporting, add some pretty basic, but effective rules and sort of methodologies to your advertising.
Rob (10m 22s):
That's not quite the same as like a fully managed programmatic agency. And I say that you've mystically, they're massively different. Like they couldn't be further apart.
Joel (10m 31s):
I'm hearing, there might be some conflict of interests that were thought of when a Click IQ was consumed by Indeed. Is that fair to say?
Chad (10m 38s):
Well, and then it's also steps down with Outcast. I mean, there's gotta be those conversations, right?
Joel (10m 45s):
How do these programmatic solutions remain neutral or can they?
Rob (10m 49s):
I can't speak for other programmatic agencies. I mean, the way we do it, is we remain completely transparent. So it's not about, we can't change the way the industry works as one organization yet. Right. We can't say, oh, well actually we think that the way commissions should be paid as X, Y, and Z, because we just get frozen out. So instead what we do is we just remain completely transparent throughout the whole process. So our clients know, for example, that the reason our service feels quite cheap is because we also get a kickback for every pound that we put through Indeed. But that's also traveled the other performance marketing job boards. Right. Right. So where if you are Indeed, then it becomes a bit more complicated, right?
Rob (11m 33s):
Because you need to convince your clients that this better functionality where you can also advertise on other job boards is probably right to the bottom of the priority list. It is the way it is. Right? As you say, with StepStone and Outcast, everyone knew, I mean, StepStone knew there were, there were no secrets. Right. Everyone knew that that would impact impartiality. I think we even spoke that that happened, I think, was it the day before the last time I was on the podcast? That was when you were in London?
Chad (12m 1s):
Yeah. It happened. I actually, I think it happened the day that we sat down at the pub because I actually saw Richard at Recfest shook his hand. And I'm like, when are you going to get acquired? And he just kind of smiled at me. And then the next day it was like, yeah, I couldn't tell you dude, but yeah, here's the press release.
Rob (12m 22s):
Yeah. So that was the big secret that no one wanted to tell you?
Chad (12m 26s):
Yeah. Yeah.
Joel (12m 27s):
So also in the news we had last week or a couple weeks ago, pandoLogic announcing the acquisition of Wade and Wendy, which is a chat bot. So pandoLogic being a programmatic solution, buying a chat bot. Does that make sense to you or are you able to put those pieces together? Cause I'm having a hard time doing it.
Rob (12m 43s):
Yeah, I have absolutely no idea why they did that. So we run some research kind of throughout COVID to track what employers and what staffing firms were prioritizing and looking at which we called imaginatively, we called the pulse survey cause were trying to keep our finger on the pulse. So we, and from that, there was a few bits that came out around like in-house recruiters, massively prioritizing candidate experience, that was like their top priority. And now if you take a finding like that and work backwards, then I could say, well, maybe if you want to grow the appeal of programmatic, there may be stop bolting on things which improve candidate experience.
Rob (13m 25s):
Right. And one of those things would be if you were taking applications and then screening them or improving the quality via some kind of chat bot tech, then maybe that means you're all front of the pack. Maybe.
Chad (13m 37s):
Yeah. The problem was with that happened, that actually started to happen a couple of years ago and Indeed put the brakes on it. And anybody who started to do that on the front end to filter out, they cut them off. Because when SmashFly they cut SmashFly off from gathering data, Uncommon was doing it from a matching standpoint. So it's like, that was something organizations wanted to do. Right. But it was cut off. I wonder if Pandos going to try to try to jump the innovation shark here? Yeah.
Rob (14m 7s):
Yeah. I mean, my, my pushback in the first place would be, in my experience, It's pretty rare that people have got programmatics so right that they need to start worrying about ad-ons. I mean, the, the amount of organizations that are trying to put a lot of money into job ads, having not written job descriptions properly, like there's, it's kind of been my issue with it, like chat bot growth generally I can see why it's relevant flight your footsie one, one fifties. And you know, that was a combination of footsie, one hundreds and fifty-two 50 doesn't matter big organizations. I can see why it'd be relevant for your biggest organization who are already putting millions into the candidate experience.
Rob (14m 48s):
But for your average recruiter, certainly Europe and I wonder if it's the same in the US to a certain extent, I would just put like tagging chatbots onto programmatic so low down on the list of things to worry about. I was surprised when I heard on your guys' pod, that, that had happened.
Nexxt PROMO (15m 12s):
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Chad (16m 33s):
So let's spin a real quick over to Madeline Laurano's research, which I know you guys got a kick out of over in the UK, right? Talking about programmatic, talking about usage growth, those types of things. But I think most of her research was a US based. Was that something that you guys could actually use as a hammer to go back and say, Hey, this is working in the US, it can work here and help you guys from a marketing and adoption standpoint.
Rob (17m 4s):
I think one of the reasons we were so pleased to see it was that it echoed a lot of the things that we have hopefully, and, you know, optimistically been talking about for awhile. So when, so for example, I remember one of the points she made was that I think it was like 90% of organizations that adopt programmatic don't go back or not even don't go back, but are increasing their investment in programmatic. Now that's awesome to see because we, so we make points like that all the time about our own clients, you know, we can proudly say that we simply don't lose clients for any reason other than like their recruitment needs changes or they get bought by another company.
Rob (17m 45s):
You know, we've lost a couple like that, but in terms of does programmatic work or not, we don't lose clients like that. But obviously if I say that to you , you know, you're the salesperson, I get it. When you've got an industry wide piece of research where everyone's saying the same thing, regardless of provider, regardless of exactly how they've used it, that the programmatic as a methodology really works. That's really exciting because it's that okay. So now how do we differentiate ourselves within this field of good suppliers rather than how do we convince the market that programmatic as a theory is useful? You know?
Chad (18m 21s):
Yeah. So does that help crowbar some of those individuals, those companies off of antique tech, like Broad Bean, because I mean, it's like everybody's jumped on to the, you know, again, back in the day, it was so easy. It bolted onto your applicant tracking system. It just worked now, that was kind of like a dumbed down version, obviously, of what can happen today with performance and targeting and those types of things. I would imagine that's probably the hardest obstacle for you guys at this point. Isn't it just to get people off of riding the horse and to get into the Ferrari?
Rob (18m 58s):
Yes. Although, funnily enough, we, so I'm trying to think exactly when it was now, probably about six months ago, we launched a kind of industry first integration with Broadbean. So they're there like frontline recruiters could alongside using Total Job CV library, et cetera. They could use Talent Nexus as like a dropdown option. And the reason we did that, well, there's two reasons we did that. One was so we could get quality information back from Broadbean, but as important as anything was like the user experience of how programmatic's viewed. So for all the, while it was this kind of separate, super high tech, very intimidating different thing. It's quite difficult to get people on board, you need some really forward thinking clients to make that happen, which we, you know, we were lucky enough to get a few of, but we could feel that there was this massive barrier between us and like mass market appeal.
Rob (19m 49s):
Since going onto Broadbean the growth has been fantastic. Like seeing people view programmatic as this way of getting more from Indeed and their competitors, rather than this completely separate way of working, it has been really exciting. And it it's led to this huge growth in this big, big adoption that only would have happened if a major player, like a Broadbean or, you know, interlogic, melon, whoever you guys use. And that was actually kind of the key to it. It turns out having Broadbean recognized the opportunity and the, like, that's where the market's going. That was actually the key to unlocking a load of a load of kind of new opportunities.
Chad (20m 25s):
It would have been smarter if they did five years ago. But yeah, no, that's a great, better, late than never. Dipshits.
Joel (20m 31s):
So, if that's the case, then what you're saying is most programmatic solutions are having a hard time, I guess, with the value proposition or helping companies understand why they're so important? Am I hearing that, or do you think that the market is catching up the why of programmatic, or is there still a lot of marketing and messaging to do before people really get it?
Rob (20m 55s):
I mean, I can only speak for the UK really. I mean, I can speak for some of Europe, you know, I'm not going to speak for the whole of Europe, the UK try and do that too much, and it never works. So within the people I speak to, there are a huge amount of people using Indeed, who don't truly understand how Indeed works. Now for programmatic to make sense as a proposition
Joel (21m 15s):
Indeed, or Indeed IQ?
Rob (21m 17s):
Just Indeed. So, they will have kind of bought into the idea that it's the biggest job board, so they need to be using it. They'll have been told how much budget, you know, Indeed will have told them how much budget to spend. They'll have tried doing that and then they'll see where they get applications or not. Now, the weird thing that then happens is I'll talk to them about some of the problems that are almost built into a standard, you know, like a completely average Indeed account. By definition, that's going to lead to some challenges like your budget's not going to be evenly split across your roles. For example. Now, the fact that I can say something as simple as that, and the vast majority of people will have recognized the problem, but not realize that it's something they could fix, that's where we're starting from.
Rob (22m 1s):
And that's why like programmatic, yes, we, we need to do a lot more, you know, as an industry in terms of explaining exactly what that is, how it works, why it's valuable, et cetera, it's actually, you know, there's education that needs to happen a step before that, which is, well, how does paper performance work and what the implications using that approach as opposed to a traditional model, which I think is one of the things that the aptitude research spoke to, which there's an awful lot of misconceptions.
Joel (22m 29s):
Should I, do you remember what Chris foreman said was the percentage of companies that were using programmatic? It was really high, which struck me as a little bit odd. It was like over 60%, wasn't it?
Chad (22m 39s):
And that was in the U S I think it was, I think it was mainly US based.
Joel (22m 42s):
Yeah. Where would you put it in the UK? Rob?
Rob (22m 45s):
I think when we've talked about this before, because we've used that, of course you stat a lot, the like the US ahead of US and they're up to like 60% now. I would guess that we're at about 20 to 25 of companies of a certain size. I don't know exactly where we'd cut that off, but that certainly doesn't include, you know, SMEs and the smaller players, but, within the top kind of, you know, those big advertisers on the job boards, I'd say about 25% of them are starting to use programmatic.
Joel (23m 15s):
So all companies would be singing low single digits. Oh
Rob (23m 18s):
Yeah, yeah. Of all companies it would be tiny.
Chad (23m 20s):
Well it's awesome to hear the integration with Broadbean because again, to be able to hook up a VA to a horse and buggy is always, always wonderful to watch. But prediction from you knowing that Dom has left, the CEO of Broadbean has left. I mean, CareerBuilder's been selling things off left and right. Broadbean's, really the crown jewel has been for awhile, but really the crown jewel, what is your prediction on who will buy Broadbean?
Rob (23m 51s):
Oh,
Joel (23m 53s):
The answer is the Chad and Cheese podcast. Just kidding.
Rob (23m 60s):
I think the list of organizations that could buy Broadbean and do anything, by could, I don't mean just with the money to do it, but I mean, are in a market position to buy it and then make it more valuable, is a very, very limited list. I think. I don't know which names have you thrown around?
Chad (24m 19s):
If you think about it, StepStone has a shit ton of cash. They're looking for a portfolio, right? I mean, it's, those are the types of organizations that they really don't need the tech as much. Right. They have the tech. VONC. I think they're out of Voncs range from, from a buying standpoint, because Apollo is not going to go clearance rack on this. If somebody else had it, I think Vonc quote have already, already chewed them up. But I think, you know, somebody like a, a StepStone or maybe a U S player who wants to be able to have a better footprint outside of the U S we have a halfway as good, you know, halfways, decent footprint here with Broadbean, but, and then also has a compliance product, which is very big.
Chad (25m 1s):
If you want to push from the UK into the US in this segment, you have to have a compliance product. So it's anybody I think, with a lot of cash because the Apollo's not coming off of that sheet.
Rob (25m 13s):
Yeah. There's a few organizations in the UK that would be similar in the portfolio sense, but I just don't think they're, I mean, without knowing the, you know, the figures off the top of my head, they just don't feel big enough to be able to take Broadbean, which I would say like, that's the crown jewel already in the existing portfolio to have adopt that in something else, you've gotta be pretty big. Right. And the opportunity I think is too. So what Broadbean we're already doing with, with, with some success is they've got their Broadbean boost product, which is bringing a kind of self service programmatic element into the platform. And then they've got the integration with us, which is all about if you've got a monthly budget to spend, if you want to do programmatic, long-term rather than just to fill a specific vacancy, then that's how they're using us.
Rob (25m 58s):
So they've kind of got both options, for who needs it. Now that really opens up an awful lot for the market to them, to Broadbean well and to their clients actually. But I mean, the whole point is it kind of opens up that whole part of the market. It gets rid of the perception that there is kind of old school way of doing things because you get access to the new way of doing things, but it's also very familiar and comfortable, right? People, most recruiters who've sort of moved around a few agencies or a few employers on their way up through the ranks. We'll have used Broadbean at some point. And it's very difficult to quantify how valuable that is from like a brand and sort of consumer loyalty perspective.
Chad (26m 38s):
It's comfortable, it's comfortable.
Rob (26m 39s):
It's because a lot of users, right. A lot of users.
Chad (26m 42s):
Joel prediction please?
Joel (26m 43s):
Oh, for Broadbean. Yeah. And so my prediction is that they're not going to sell it. I believe that Apollo's recent acquisition of Yahoo, AOL, Tech Crunch, and a bunch of media properties means that they're going to plug career builders, jobs and all these sites, which is going to include Broadbean as some sort of distribution tool. So I don't see them selling, I see them leveraging the new properties that they've acquired.
Chad (27m 7s):
Gonna use the horse and buggy as the ammplifier, okay. Gotcha.
Rob (27m 10s):
I didn't realize that was an option. I'm a hundred percent going with Joel. I don't think so.
Joel (27m 14s):
There you go. Smart man. So Rob, I'm going to let you out on this one. I'm just curious, your British perspective on three companies and you can make your answers pretty quick. But my questions are, what's your perspective on Google for Jobs as you see it in the UK and Europe, LinkedIn and ZipRecruiter, which I know may have no relevance whatsoever, but they're going public here today in the U S and I'm just curious if there, if you're hearing any rumblings about ZipRecruiter coming to Europe, so Google for Jobs, LinkedIn and ZipRecruiter? Go.
Rob (27m 49s):
Cool. Google for Jobs was launched to a huge amount of fanfare. And I remember a couple of conferences where it was all people could think about. They were convinced it was going to break recruitment as we know it. And as far as I'm aware, it's been at least a year since anyone that I spoke to was talking about it as if it was particularly disrupting the way they worked very small amounts of traffic. Most of which wasn't a very good quality. It was just a different way that Google search results works rather than this like groundbreaking new product is my impression, so far. LinkedIn is considered absolutely essential by every single staffing firm that I speak to and the vast majority of in-house recruiters. There's a huge amount of frustration about the way they work, but they have a complete monopoly on that style of sourcing in the UK, which is probably why they're allowed to have a slightly frustrated reputation.
Rob (28m 41s):
Is it recruits? I've always marveled. Since I started listening to you guys, the, I remember when you first dropped the fact about them being, was it like the biggest sponsor of podcast advertising in the US or something mad?
Joel (28m 53s):
Yeah, yeah.
Rob (28m 55s):
Yeah. I was like, I heard that. I was like, wow, that is significantly bigger in the US than it is in the UK. They are. So Zip Recruiter fall into like tier two of aggregates in the UK? So Indeed everyone knows. And then if you're, if you're in recruitment, you probably know Zip Recruiter as a Adzunatalent.com, maybe Job Repeat, Job Gate, people like that. Like they're very much tier two. There's like no one would suggest, I don't think even Zip would, would suggest that they're sort of attacking position one. So yeah, I guess, I guess the way it goes is they get enormous in the states. They do their thing, and then they just need a huge amount of investment in the UK.
Rob (29m 35s):
I mean, their team over here is pretty small.
Chad (29m 37s):
They'd buy Broadbean.
Rob (29m 43s):
That's the one we missed. Yeah. So Zip by Broadbean.
Chad (29m 48s):
Thanks, Rob Prince, everyone from Talent Nexus, Charlie. Good. Rob, if someone wants to learn more about you, I don't know, maybe even connect with you on LinkedIn or something like that, where would you send them?
Rob (30m 3s):
Yeah. So if they wanted to connect with me on LinkedIn, I would definitely send them to LinkedIn, where they find Me as Rob Prince Talent Nexus. Talentnexus.com is the hub of all the good stuff that we offer, which is mostly free. So if you want like an Indeed audit or an overview of how programmatic would work for you, that's all on there. Yeah. I mean, I'm easy to find and we're more than happy to help with how people are getting set up and what their plans are, especially at the moment.
Chad (30m 32s):
Rob Prince, everybody.
Joel (30m 33s):
Thanks, Rob.
Rob (30m 33s):
Appreciate it, man. Thanks for having me chaps. Appreciate it.
Joel and Chad (30m 37s):
We out.
OUTRO (30m 35s):
Thank you for listening to, what's it called? The podcast with Chad, the Cheese. Brilliant. They talk about recruiting. They talk about technology, but most of all, they talk about nothing. Just a lot of Shout Outs of people, you don't even know and yet you're listening. It's incredible. And not one word about cheese, not one cheddar, blue, nacho, pepper jack, Swiss. So many cheeses and not one word. So weird. Any hoo be sure to subscribe today on iTunes, Spotify, Google play, or wherever you listen to your podcasts, that way you won't miss an episode.
OUTRO (31m 20s):
And while you're at it, visit www.chadcheese.com just don't expect to find any recipes for grilled cheese. Is so weird. We out.