CareerBuilderReviews 140

I did not register for this website. I received an email thanking me for uploading my resume. I did not provide any of this information, nor did I authorise the use of my information. Creating an account in my name using my email and a fake address is COMPLETELY FRAUDULENT. I have requested that my account be removed and expect to be informed when this is done within the 30 day window (which is egregious). I will be negatively rating this site on every possible review site possible. Skimming my LinkedIn for this information and creating and account in my name is akin to identity theft.

I was about to apply for a job that was posted on CareerBuilder. In reviewing the job requirements, I was suspicious of the wording / phrasing (it was very generic). I highlighted a large section of test and searched for in through Google. Sure enough, the first result lead me to a website that offered to teach how to put out a job description. There was no legitimate company behind the job ad. I can only imagine what this "company" is doing to people's personal information when they submit their resumes.

I would not recommend this company to anyone. Communication is a nightmare; results are very poor, program is not user friendly and employees will contradict each other. We signed up with Career Builder 10/19/17 and soon started to see the results were awful. On January 19th I made my first contact regarding our results. Spoke with our rep she told me she didn't know why we were not getting results because we were doing everything right. She made a few suggestion and we mad the adjustments on our end. This happened 3 times, contacted they suggested I made changes and still results didn't change. So I contact one more time but this time no one replied so I did some online research and found 2 managers email addresses VP Sales and Senior Sales Manager. I quickly emailed them with all my contacts previously. By this time we had to sign back up with our previous company or we would never get any employees so now we are paying two companies. This is now April, and we had to come to the realization this company costs us way to much man power. We have to contact them non-stop and hope they reply or have a temporary solution to boost our results. It's time to sever ties well guess what even tho we have not delivered on anything we told you when you signed up you still have to pay 50% of the remaining contract balance. Thank you Career Builder for teaching us a lesson!

As an update, I thought my spam stopped but instead, I notice it went into my spam box. My once clean spam box is now filled when it was untouched for years. And they're all the same job and recruitment emails that are repetitive, suspicious and give absolutely NO easy way to unsubscribe. Not only did the emails NOT stop, but they also have my full name on it too. So now these people also know my name. That's great. Thanks a lot, CareerBuilder.

A company could not possibly have worse customer service or more people who simply DON'T CARE! It literally took a WEEK to place an ad with them - the same ad I placed in 5 minutes on other sites. They had site issues, didn't reply to my emails, gave me useless help (when they did), and then gypped me out one day in my ad - never mind the fact that NO ONE offered to discount a $395 ad for my WEEKLONG INCONVENIENCE! Time is money and I wasted BOTH with the useless company! I highly suggest everyone avoid CAREER BUILDER, based on the lousy service and uncaring attitudes that I experienced! #neveragain!

I have been using CareerBuilder for a few weeks now and am extremely disappointed with their service. They send emails that are completely irrelevant to the positions that I am applying for and if applied to via their site, the jobs are never saved for follow-up. I've sent multiple emails to customer service and have yet to receive a response.

CareerBuilder welcomed me to their site one day. I did not create an account and had not heard of them before. I assumed it was spam and ignored the email. I received a few inquiries from recruiters the next day and emailed the CareerBuilder support team to remove/delete my account immediately as I did not create it.
I did not hear back. I reported every email they sent as spam and filled out their surveys saying that they need to verify accounts better. (at least email verification, this is 2018) One week later and I am getting 3 calls a day about open positions all claiming to have found my information on CareerBuilder.
I decided to go recover my account and delete it myself. Luckily that worked. Apparently I was signed up with my linkedin profile as my resume. It was barely filled out, most of the information wrong. Only my degree, phone number and email were filled out correctly. This leads me to believe that every recruiter that contacted me did not even look at my resume. They are the definition of spam, you should subscribe to every job posting in your area as that would provide much better value than the emails from "recruiters" you get from CareerBuilder.

CareerBuilder is the worse job-hunting site that I've had the misfortune of interacting with. I'm in a technical field, and in a niche. The job matches are consistently poor and arrive 3 to 5 times per day. Only about 1% of the 25 to 150 alleged matches are remotely close. CareerBuilder also will send a message that is titled "Company X is interested in you!"... a complete lie. They company is not interested, nor did it even look at your resume. It's just CareerBuilder falsely informing you that they've matched you to the job. And if all of that wasn't bad enough, the flood of job-spam that ends up in your mailbox exceeds the amount of junk actually sent by CareerBuilder. And most of the job-spam is about completely unrelated alleged jobs (usually in the "insurance sales" arena). And after a bit of investigation prove to be nothing more than pyramid schemes.

Let's remember that at least it's free to receive job notifications from CareerBuilder. The thing that annoys me is that you cannot specify that you only want to see jobs within a certain area.

I continually get emailed jobs that are 2+ hours away from my home and it's a waste of time.

Also, many employers have told me that when they try to look at my resume on CareerBuilder, it's formatted badly and is hard to read as it apparently doesn't look at all like the document I uploaded.

Another thing they need to do is remove jobs that are filled! It's extremely aggravating to go to all of the trouble of filling out an online app just to find out that the position was filled 3 week ago!

But... let's remember, it's still a free service and it doesn't cost anything to look!

Beware before you post your resume on careerbuilder. From the moment I uploaded my resume I have been called and e-mailed by companies for jobs that are no where near my profession. I get cold calls from people who won't tell me who they are or what type of job it is, but they want me to set up an interview. Usually they end up trying to convince me to become an owner or work for a terrible salary as an entry level insurance agent. If you are an experienced professional look for a legitimate job in your career field, DO NOT use careerbuilder. I had to deactivate my account and they still call me.

I have never used CareerBuilder as a jobseeker or employer. For the last 6 months my phone number has been spammed by "further your education" telemarketers and employment companies trying to set up "Christina" with an interview or job. Some of the actual employers still sound like scammers. A few of them sounded more serious.

Regardless, I made a complaint to them. More than 3 of the spammers that have called have mentioned "finding her resume on CareerBuilder".

I was in my local hospital HR office. A woman came in asking about her application. The HR guru looked and said it had not been received. It turned out she had applied via CareerBuilder. That hospital does not use CareerBuider so my question is - where did the woman's details go?

I have applied for thousands of jobs via careerbuilder. I had only interview invitations from scammers. I have to say that I don't believe CareerBuilder is genuine. Seems to me to be more of a resume harvesting operation for scammers.