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Mo (14:20.129) You Joel (14:21.013) Paradox. All right. right. And wait, there's more from our friends at Paradox, Chad. we'd love to use paradox instead. But if you take a look at the way Paradox started, as Joel had said, there was Paradox, there was... Well guess what, so does Paradox now.

First up, we delve into Paradox's latest move – appointing a brand-new CEO. Paradox, it's funny because they are the alpha in this space. Paradox must be crushing it for Aaron to make this move. He wanted to come out as the Phoenix with this Paradox, with Paradox and Olivia. And he really has. Joel: And build a team similar to what Aaron has done at Paradox.

They double down on AI with Paradox. All the management at Paradox, I believe, is a Gen X. I don't know if they had Paradox at the time. I don't think paradox is going to be a problem here. Well, Paradox lets them do that.

And it's going to be really fun and Paradox, I think has the same sort of vision of the future. Who'd you rather who'd you rather Paradox or SeekOut? Leadership is interesting. But I like the veterans over in Paradox, a little better. It's, you know, hairline difference, but I give a little edge to Paradox and you? Chad (18m 13s): I mean, Paradox and SeekOut.

[laughter] Joel: And on this episode, move over Paradox. Retention is in and Germany wants you. Alright, Move Over Paradox. So hey, Paradox, get in that couch, get some loose change and go buy... No clue what Paradox's footprint is in Europe. It's probably not bad. Do you run into Paradox in Europe, Lieven, chatbots? Lieven: Nope. Joel: No.

This week saw a lot of chess gamin’.and the most impressive move was made by Paradox, but Job.com and Joel (40s): And on this week show iCIMS falls for its IPO, Paradox puts a round peg in a round hole and Tradify is already integrated into Paradox and Paradox CEO Aaron Maita said the deal was spurred by customer What he can do with Paradox on the high volume side of the house, I think is amazing. So what happened here is a company, Paradox is taking a piece of tech off the chess board, right?

Joel (11m 9s): Paradox. Chad (11m 10s): Well, damn. Paradox is not interested in being a point solution. We've looked at Paradox as the conversational AI apex predator. If Paradox, we're trying to be stealthy before. And they dusted off, pick themselves back up, pivoted into Paradox.

- Paradox ate like it was at a Vegas buffet, - Glassdoor was doing its best Oliver Twist - RPO Rumors Joel: On this week show, Paradox makes it rain. Glassdoor shows employees the door. Our buddies at Paradox made it rain this week. You did the shred on it, what's the news? I think just the depth of what we're seeing here from Paradox, it's pretty damn exciting. Joel: I'm happy to hear you softening a little bit on Paradox.

On this week's show Paradox learns how to Spetz CareerBuilder does the walk of shame Google Union is Joel (12m 6s): Paradox acquires Spetz, not Spitz that would be much more entertaining. Spencer swallows Paradox knows the answer, they acquired spetz.io on Israeli startup. So they're selling, this is an Aqua hire, some smart people that are going to be joining Paradox. Let's check that global box and let's start building shit under the Paradox brand. And guess what?

All legit questions and reasons why Adam Godson and Josh Zywien, Paradox hot shots, join The Chad and The Paradox boys are here. Chad (1m 46s): This is the supersize podcast of marketing. I'm head a product at Paradox has joined JZ about six months ago. You guys were sort of Olivia, when you launch now, you're really Paradox. The Paradox is the company. Josh Zywien (10m 3s): We view a Olivia's as the product itself.

It's a hype-free discussion around “AI and Automation" Aaron Matos - CEO of Paradox Olivia Yongue - Director Again, this is part one of a two part podcast, with Aaron Matos, CEO of Paradox, Olivia Yongue, director Aaron: Hey I'm Aaron Matos, I'm the founder and CEO of Paradox. Joel: By the way, Olivia is Paradox's [crosstalk 00:26:14], and it's also her name #TAtech #Paradox #AllyO #KRT #AI #Automation

Joel (13m 8s): You're gonna rain on this parade. Aren't you? Everybody knows how I hated despised the Paradox booth. Joel (18m 48s): Yep. Chad (19m 38s): It could have been, but anyway, big shout out to Paradox.

And our friends at Paradox, have conducted research on the impact of AI in recruiting. Chad your take on this new study from our friends at Harvard and Paradox. Chad: Yeah. means there's 96% of the market that's ready to buy your product, which is which is great news for paradox He says virtually, like but I know this because my son applied to McDonald's through Paradox and Olivia

It’s a hype-free discussion around “AI and Automation” Aaron Matos – CEO of Paradox Olivia Yongue – Director It's a hype free discussion around AI and automation with Aaron Matos, CEO of Paradox, Olivia Youngue Aaron from Paradox, Olivia from KRT and Sahil from AllyO. #TAtech #Paradox #AllyO #KRT #AI #Automation #MachineLearning

If you're Paradox and Olivia, this is total utter bullshit. They both knew better. Mel. McDonald's probably didn't know as much better they should have, but the vendor paradox, they should #LinkedIn #Bullhorn #McDonalds #Facebook #Olivia #Paradox #Careerbuilder

Other than that, the boys discuss Yellow trucking’s epic crash, chatbots like Paradox landing in Forbes Look, Paradox launched an ATS not that long ago. The last time we talked to the team over at Paradox, they were getting a 98% good experience rating from Now, it did say that they'd reached out to Paradox for a comment, and I wish Paradox would've commented

It was a busy week. Economic megatrends continue to take hold. There are more job openings than ever before, and that has invigorated the gig economy and put recruiters in a strong sellers market for many positions. TaskRabbit, where anyone who will deliver your laundry or fix your door hinge can make cash, is growing into new markets. Kalo, a Silicon Valley darling, has investment cash and hope to be a “badass recruiting engine.” And times are so tight that the Secret Service is employing these types now. Tech continues to march on too. Workey and Clustree get buckets of cash, making this technology even hotter than ever before. There’s a new competitor in the chatbot landscape, which probably makes services like Mya and Olivia that much more valuable. Recruitics launches a solution that should’ve been introduce about 15 years ago. But, hey, better late than never, right? And make sure you visit our sponsors. We exist because of them: America’s Job Exchange and Beyond.com/cheddar. #Workey #Clustree #TaskRabbit #Kalo #Olivia #Mya #Recruitics

Joel: And on this week's show, it's a Paradox Fountain Smackdown. We saw this coming with Paradox. That's just something that Paradox CMO, JZ, we know JZ really well. Paradox is not. Paradox is doing enterprise.

Here’s what's on tap this week: More Silicon Valley Bank drama, Fountain goes after Paradox, Acquisitions So should Paradox be shaking in their comfy, cozy desert boots or is this much ado about nothing? need the paradoxes of the world, right? Chad: We have the domain specific models, much like Paradox has, right? Why not give Paradox the ability to build their... Put their conversational AI, Wade Windy?

And paradox did a lot of things right. Paradox and Talk Push are evolving into systems that really can't be called an ATS, but can they screen I can't believe I'm saying this, but companies like Paradox, Talk Push, iCIMS, Jobvite, Humanly, and And as I look at the latest video from Paradox, and I encourage listeners to go check this out, it's

I mean, you guys, you, we all know Paradox pretty well. They move fairly slow. I have two Paradox predictions here first and foremost, new cash means, no surprise kids ACQUISITIONS Joel (13m 11s): So global domination is what you're predicting for Paradox. Joel (13m 17s): I mean, that sounds like a non acquisition of Paradox. Alright, well, my prediction has nothing to do with Paradox. Some people will appreciate that.

Whereas paradox doesn't have the same sort of expectations. who Paradox. Knows who Paradox is. And if they're saying all this shit and it's all fucked up Paradox or McDonald's might not know who Paradox Chad: And Paradox knows better.

Paradox has completely wiped all of that out for us. But to me, the Paradox system is inclusive. Everyone has a phone. Kristen Reilly: But now everything's all set up in Paradox. We're in our infancy with Paradox. We've grown in a year. Yeah. And they go from Paradox into HR Cloud, and again, it's very much like going from from Paradox to Jazz

He's Chad Sowash, and we are here with Adam Godson, GM of Paradox. GM, CEO, Paradox. You get acquired, that's awesome. We'll talk about that. But this new role, but it's more than just Paradox. Adam Godson: That is true. So I think, you know, of course Paradox was acquired by Workday in September '25. And so the Paradox brand will stay.

So we have, um, AI, uh, via Paradox doing the, um, candidate care piece for us. David, who is my, uh, sales contact with Paradox, who we use for our AI is... And I found Traitify assessments, which was not part of Paradox at the time. We, we loved it. And then, uh, we do react on that and we work with Paradox to improve things. And, um, there's, there's so much more that we want to do with Paradox, I think.

Day Hiring Trap In this episode, Chad and Cheese sit down with Josh Secrest, the Head of Marketing at Paradox What do we need to know about you other than your title at Paradox? Josh: Oh my goodness. Joel: Well, remember the Chipotle CEO on Jim Cramer's show talking about Paradox. , so or Paradox and hired score in it, it just all feels like one thing. Joel: That was Josh Secrest, head of marketing at Paradox.

We had Paradox. and we made Paradox the default apply option on our career site. But yeah, it's just like we still have a ton of volume come through Paradox. Whereas if they weren't there, it was like Paradox by themselves, it was still good. But somehow having Dalia there as a second option, it didn't affect Paradox negatively.

That's why we partner with Paradox, we're doing some cool things there. You assimilate that to Paradox. Jolene Hostal: Well, I think, yeah, I mean, obviously, partnering with Paradox over the last three years Chad Sowash: So, when all of that's happening through Paradox, all the information's being pushed into And so I had to work really closely with them in terms of understanding, and even on like the Paradox

He'll help us better understand the unicorn parade from a few years back, which resulted in a VC winter It was so much fun around the 2021-22 period, the unicorn parade, every week, someone who's getting a We've talked about the unicorn parade, uh, followed by what you call VC winter.

robots, or get left in the dust,’ as Mary urges talent leaders to dive headfirst into AI tools like Paradox I'm here at RecFest USA to talk about Generative AI and the success that we've seen with implementing Paradox Joel: So, we've heard a lot of Paradox stories around efficiency, time saved, dollars saved.

I mean, we know the Paradox staff really well. And there was a response that was posted on Paradox. They tried an injection attack on Paradox. It didn't work. Look, paradox has been kicking everybody's ass for 10 years. to gain from throwing shit at Paradox?

Chad Sowash: So you talked about implementing Paradox. Yes. Where did you implement? Paradox is our conversational, but also is our ATS. Okay. Let me give you an example. When we were looking at implementing Paradox, immediately the thought was conversational AI, but I also So Paradox, actually, we were one of the first ones that were using that ATS component because they were And it has worked perfectly for us because we put Paradox from the beginning all the way to onboarding

Inside the Playbook: Meet "Frankie": Discover how Flynn Group’s custom AI assistant (powered by Paradox And I think that's what we've done, umm, pretty well here with our Paradox implementation because, you So, we rolled out, umm, when we implemented Paradox, we rolled out brand by brand, uh, all through last So we also implement a, umm, a product from Paradox called Employee Assistant. So you just log into your employee dashboard in Paradox and you can see your offer letter, all the forms

Could Paradox and Workday or Smart Recruiters plus SAP go full Amazon? The big question is can Workday leverage paradox or maybe... And this was using Paradox and Dahlia. And Adam, he's the CEO of Paradox. We definitely look forward to continuing to scale at Paradox.

see if we can integrate their open API systems into the current system that we're utilizing, which is Paradox Courtney Dempsey: So, for us, we utilize Paradox, obviously.

Paradox, actually does a really great job with their career site and SEO and driving that. 0:07:12.8 S2: , we worked with Paradox. We're hearing the same thing from, umm, companies like, you know, companies using Paradox and Gem and We've been live not quite a year now in Paradox, and, we've already seen a 38% reduction in turnover, We attribute that to, the assessments that you can maximize Paradox with the traitify assessments., it

But our champion goes to Paradox employee David Stifle. Nice job, David. I think you meant Paradox. Chad Sowash: Paradox. Joel Cheeseman: Just for our listeners. Yeah. And it may be not paradox directly, but that movement, companies taking over the process. Olivia, so Paradox is Olivia, has a generative AI capability. I don't know at what point the Harrys and the Paradoxes cross over into smaller businesses.

And then you've got paradox, right? So you've got all of these. It actually kicks into your paradox piece. Then we've got paradox. Then we've got smart recruiter. paradox being a part of the entire Chad (30:20.418) Yes. Chad (32:16.494) This is one acquisition and paradoxes is just as much.

It's paradox. He said, why would you post a job when all the data is there? The paradox can, like, you got it. Right. So, so shockingly. Chad (32:44.702) You've got them. He says that and then indeed launches a conversational AI competitor, I assume, to Paradox who's been Like you're right, Paradox doing this for 10 years, amazing. Oddly enough, I I'm starting to see a paradox ads on Google about they are a conversational ATS.

So that's where like the Paradox piece started to come in. Paradox actually does a really great job with their career site and SEO in driving that. 0:14:40.2 Meghan Rhatigan: We worked with Paradox and actually did a lot of work on trying to see what You know, companies using Paradox and Gem and Fountain. We're here in the Gem booth, which you're a customer of Paradox you mentioned.

Sapia is Paradox down under, providing conversational AI to Fosters chugging Aussies everywhere. Joel (18m 18s): I love you took the diversity, Paradox, cuz that is, that is you, I'm gonna take it to Look, should Paradox be shaking in their little Arizona desert boots? I would say probably not. They don't have paradoxes money. Like, how are you guys different from Paradox or some of the others?

week, I'll be headed back to the U S because on April 20 through the 21st, Joe and I will be attending paradoxes client board, a little shin dig with about a hundred paradox clients where they get together and they Check out. new paradox wears and it's a perfect opportunity. Refer back to SAP acquiring smart recruiters and Workday acquiring paradox, right? be buying other organizations that focus on that, much like SAP with smart recruiters, Workday and Paradox

From companies like Paradox to Humanly and others, allowing job seekers to submit their information by From Paradox. This is a bot, but this is for the maintenance. Joel Cheesman (17:01.862) Paradox. Yeah. Chad Sowash (17:02.85) Paradox. Joel Cheesman (17:20.23) Do you, do you feel like a paradox customer could also use your service?

And I go to check out, I'm wearing my paradox swag, my jacket, coat, windbreaker, if you will. And the guy at the register says, do you work for paradox? And I was like, well, that's weird. Joel (02:15.206) And, the guy says, yeah, we just implemented paradox, as our hiring system. I go in with my paradox and hope that I get a free. Chad (02:20.668) No shit. No shit. So that's really cool. out to Good Swag and Paradox.

In this episode of the Chad and Cheese podcast, the boys discuss various topics including the Paradox So we're here at Paradox, Analyst Day slash user groups, whatever they call it. It's basically like users of Paradox coming for stuff. And you mentioned companies here at Paradox. And I think being here in paradox, we were talking about AI a lot, right?

0:05:59.8 Chad Sowash: Yes. 0:06:00.1 Stef Nikitas: And so Shaker had made a recommendation of Paradox And we were like, "What's Paradox?" In this past year, having Paradox, we spent less with our sourcing partners than we ever have. Our recruiters, because Paradox is allowing them to, because they're not stuck on the phone rescheduling

Shout out real quick to the Paradox folks cheating us real nicely again, as usual. Joel Cheesman (02:36.865) I can report that they are letting them be paradox for the most part. It felt very paradoxics, very paradoxical. don't know how you would, how you would frame that. All the all the folks at paradox treated us really well this week, but we are headed to Chicago this I've said for a while now, if you weren't in that group that got acquired, if your name isn't Paradox

And the reason is, there's a paradox in that. You've probably heard of it. Tyler Weeks: If you told me six years ago, seven years ago that Paradox, HireVue and Phenom would basically

Adam Godson , CEO of Paradox: Hopefully, he'll explain what a paradox is without causing one. Adam Godson, CEO, and Jessica Rush, Chief Talent Officer over at Paradox, talking about recruitment with And we've really been operating like that for a while now, a paradox on our talent acquisition team. see if we can integrate their open API systems into the current system that we're utilizing, which is Paradox

Our second prediction for next year, Paradox, another great success story. Talk about acquisition. We're gonna predict a multi-billion dollar acquisition of Paradox in 2025. I mean, I am big on Paradox. So take our comments with that however you want, but yes, we we're not faking our love for Paradox.