Joel Cheesman is one of the most popular bloggers on emerging recruitment issues and business leaders in the world. He was the recipient of the Best Technology Recruitment Blog for 2005 and received the Best Recruiting Blog in 2006, thanks to Recruiting.com. He has been featured in numerous publications, such as Fast Company magazine, The Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek magazine.

Cheezhead, Joel's blog, is a daily chronicle of how technology are shaping HR and how companies can attract the talent needed to thrive in today’s economy. As an insider and employee of some of the biggest online job sites since 1997, Joel founded HRSEO to help employers and vendors in the recruitment arena move to a place where search engines deliver high quality and cost-effective traffic. Joel is an evangelist of search engine optimization (SEO), Internet marketing and other emerging technologies that help employers and like businesses drive targeted candidates to vacancies.
John Sumser, a recruitment industry guru, adds, “Joel Cheesman has little respect for the way things used to be. That’s why we like him so much.”
Prior to working in the Internet recruiting space, Cheesman cut his teeth in the political arena in Washington, D.C. and working in congressional races around the United States.

Cheesman is a graduate of Ball State University.

In addition to being a not-so-closet SEO geek, he's an avid fan of All American sports, loud music and good food.
Joel lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife Laura, son Cole and their two cats, Nacho and Chili.