The Recruitment Marketing Awards celebrate the best-of-the-best in recruitment marketing including podcasts, events, job sites and more! 

This year, several podcasts attracted listeners who want to stay on top of the latest news in recruitment marketing. Here are the award-winning podcasts for 2022!

Winner: The Chad and Cheese Podcast 

The Chad and Cheese podcast was the overwhelming winner among voters in 2022. Since 2018, Chad Sowash and Joel Cheesman have attracted listeners with their fun and friendly take concerning top issues within HR, recruitment marketing and the employer branding industry. 

Each episode is jam-packed with information about the latest happenings in recruiting, brash opinions (on just about everything) and a healthy dose of snark. These are just a few of the reasons why this has become a fan favorite across the globe!

Runners-Up

We have a few runners-up for the podcast awards. Other voter favorites include the following. 

The Recruitment Flex

The Recruitment Flex is a long-running podcast dedicated to HR, including the candidate experience, talent acquisition and tips for job seekers. The hosts, Serge and Shelley, have over 40 years of combined experience in recruiting, and they post new episodes every few days for their large listening audience.

Recent topics on the popular podcast include quiet firing, the state of the tech workforce and job boards.

RecruitingDaily Podcast with William Tincup

Another long-running recruitment podcast, RecruitingDaily with William Tincup, is popular with listeners in the HR industry sector and regularly covers various hot topics concerning recruitment marketing, talent acquisition and general HR issues.

With nearly 500 episodes available for listening, you won’t find any shortage of material to dig into. Some of the most recent topics include AI and hiring biases, re-engaging quiet quitters and cyberloafers, and consolidating talent acquisition platforms.

Honorable Mentions

We love podcasts, and our voters do, too! Here are a few honorable mentions you might want to try out.

The Talent Brand Podcast

While The Talent Brand Podcast is relatively new, it provides an open community for employer branding and recruitment marketing professionals interested in improving their skills. Recent episodes include a discussion of storytelling through employer branding and recruitment marketing analytics and metrics.

The Employer Branding Podcast

Jörgen Sundberg, the CEO of Link Humans, hosts the Employer Branding Podcast. Listeners who join in will regularly hear famous employer brand leaders and innovators share their secrets to attracting top talent. Each episode lasts approximately 20 minutes and follows a simple Q&A format, allowing the audience to follow along easily. 

The CandEs Shop Talk

Shop Talk is a podcast that discusses HR’s impact on business, including talent acquisition, candidate experience and recruiting technology. Each month, HR and recruiting industry influencer Kevin W. Grossman hosts interviews with CandE winners and other recruitment professionals.

Talent Cast

The Talent Cast is a new podcast hosted by James Ellis, an expert in recruitment marketing and employer branding. Each episode presents new ideas concerning talent acquisition, including developing a brand that resonates among potential talent.

Recruiting Future with Matt Alder

Recruiting Future is a long-running podcast that discusses recruiting from end-to-end, including attracting top talent, sifting through resumes and onboarding new hires. New listeners can sort through hundreds of episodes to find content that interests them, such as recruiting technology and the future of work.

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces

There are numerous job boards available to employers and job seekers, and this podcast seeks to discover each one. You’ll learn about large, aggregate job boards such as Indeed and LinkedIn, alongside niche ones such as Sonic Jobs and internship sites. 

TA Pod

TA Pod focuses on talent acquisition, taking on all aspects of the topic through numerous episodes and interviews with industry experts. Hosts Lauren Sharp and Craig Watson post new episodes each week. Some of the more recent shows include discussions on Web3 and developing effective job ads.

Podcasts: The Best Mix of Informative and Fun

Podcasts remain one of the best ways to stay up-to-date on industry knowledge in the recruitment marketing, talent acquisition, and candidate experience space. You can also explore our industry podcast library here where we provide the top-rated podcasts and their latest episodes. 

Congratulations to all our nominees, and thanks to our voters for sharing their thoughts!

Julie Calli

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Julie has managed over a billion dollars in recruitment media advertising and developed recruitment marketing strategies for over 200+ companies including employers, staffing companies, marketplaces and job boards that has resulted in millions of people connecting with companies for new jobs. She is well known in the industry as a pioneer and founding innovator of job programmatic advertising technology, and for her continued passion in driving meaningful change to the human experience of recruitment as it evolves in a digital era.