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New Jersey
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Nonstop spam, repeated phone calls and texts from shady companies for jobs not even remotely close to my experience and background. Most have an Indian accent. Feels like they are just trying to get personal info from you. Deleting my account on CareerBuilder.

Date of experience: June 10, 2022
Florida
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Buyer Beware
March 1, 2021

I wish I had read these reviews before using CareerBuilder for a job posting, but (expensive) lesson learned. First and foremost, they really do have absolutely terrible customer service. I called them for assistance with my posting, and was met by rudeness and complete inability or willingness to assist in any way. I did not get one response to three jobs that I posted for 30 days. I purchased the one time posting option for $299. There was nothing mentioned about this being a monthly fee, and there was no option to cancel provided at any time. So, Career Builder kept my credit card on file and proceeded to charge my credit card for another month with no advance notice. Unethical business practice to say the least. Will never use them again.

Date of experience: March 1, 2021
Turkey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Luxoft BA
December 21, 2022

The company allows flexible working hours/places with client's consent. Payment is matching the market rate. Easy to communicate with management and get yourself heard. The team is great, learning and work is so enjoyable.
Only downside is that you might face the risk of being on bench when your project is completed.

Date of experience: December 20, 2022
Indiana
25 reviews
126 helpful votes
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This site is OK they have easy application process interface, however it would not be the only place I would looking as there are numerous sites that provide other jobs than just CareerBuilder.com. I like careerbuilder.com but I would recommend using indeed.com as well as they provide an extensive job database

Date of experience: December 7, 2013
Maryland
1 review
11 helpful votes
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On the outside looking in Career Builder seems as though it is a great site, but it really isn't. I apply to Admin jobs and all of the companies that call me for interviews are for marketing. The job positions are very misleading and clearly marketing and working as a receptionist/administrative assistant are two different things. I do not think that this site is very helpful at all.

Date of experience: February 7, 2014
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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They are great and my favorite part is they only contact via the email YOU CHOOSE. And if by chance a faker manages too post a job to you through careerbuilder.com at the bottom of every email is a link where you can turn that fake job in too, they will investigate and will take care of that account. I have had some great job offers because of careerbuilder.com. Ive just had my 2cd job interview, background check and drug screening for Aldi. A place ive always wanted to work..

Date of experience: December 23, 2010
Australia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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These guys are the worst. They have no customer support for their subcontracted employees, no contact information on their website (phone number/email address) and they really don't care about the staff they are hiring for large companies.
Every time you need to log into their employee portal (to check pays etc) you need to change your password.
It might take you over a month of delays before you get your first pay in your bank account and they do not care.
I would avoid them at all costs - unfortunately though, as an employee that is subcontracted to another company you will probably just have to be employed via whoever the large company uses.

Date of experience: July 6, 2022
Michigan
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Career Builder - Every single job offer I've had has been fraud. I have never and I mean never experienced anything like this from any other employment website. Far to excessive. Everyone has asked me to either give money or deposit a check for equipment from their private suppliers.

Date of experience: October 10, 2022
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I submitted a few applications via CareerBuilder and was contacted by a number of scammers claiming to be hiring from legitimate companies. They used publically available names associated with the company to make it seem legitimate, but they asked for me to pay third-party vendors for something before I could begin to work at a company. REal jobs never have you pay any money before starting, never (MLM's are also not real jobs, but that's not what we're talking about now). CareerBuilder leaves its users vulnerable to this kind of scam by giving their data to unverified jobs. Please protect yourself and stay the hell away from this site.

Date of experience: January 30, 2022
North Carolina
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Waste of time
January 12, 2023

I'd give them zero stars if that was an option. They send job alerts that are not even remotely aligned with my skills and job criteria. 'Are you interested in being a truck driver in North Dakota?' Uh, no.

Date of experience: January 12, 2023
California
1 review
8 helpful votes
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So many scam jobs
July 29, 2022

I have always used indeed, and have found jobs easily on there. I honestly didn't even know that you could get so many scam calls, emails, and text messages from a work site. I never had issues like that with indeed or LinkedIn. They really need to fix hoe people are able to post jobs. Will never recommend

Date of experience: July 29, 2022
New York
106 reviews
432 helpful votes
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Spam Never Stopped
May 22, 2018
Updated review

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.

Date of experience: May 22, 2018

More like SpamBuilder!
March 13, 2018
Previous review

This website is so useless that I regret making an account here. I used Indeed.com prior and while I wasn't that happy with the results, at least they didn't give me spam. The second I made a CareerBuilder account, I received more spam, fake emails, and fake responses regarding work. I constantly get emails from recruiters, recruitment subscriptions where I have to unsubscribe, and emails telling me that I received positions to places I never even applied to.

This is beyond discouraging and harassment. While I acknowledge I gave my information to CareerBuilder, they are violating me and sharing my professional/business information with others and usually not legitimate places. Deleting my account immediately and I hope the spam stops. I can't believe this website was recommended by a college professor; which was the reason why I created it to begin with!

FYI: On the account deletion page, it states that if you delete your account, you can't use the same email address to make another account in the future. You'd have to sign up with a different email. That's so unheard of.

UPDATE: After deleting my account, those suspicious "job" emails stopped. I got maybe 1-3 of them the first few week, but after, they seemed to have stopped entirely. I hope it'll stay that way.

Date of experience: March 13, 2018
California
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Scam call after scam call
February 14, 2023

I've used several career services sites, and none of them except this one has so many scam calls. Yes, I may get an email here and there from the other websites. But CareerBuilder takes the cake! I was receiving scam calls and emails almost every day. So, I deleted my information and the account. Do yourself a favor and use another employment website.

Date of experience: February 14, 2023
Arizona
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I'm not even on this website at all and keep getting calls from out of country folks asking if I have time to talk and that they found me on here... When i ask them why and what company they're from, they don't answer with a straight answer.

Date of experience: October 18, 2022
Minnesota
1 review
4 helpful votes
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True ripoff!
October 3, 2020

We paid over $3000 for what as promised us "large number of qualified automotive technicians".
The truth is that your so-called automotive technicians are a true joke; what we find is "technicians" such as "IT technicians" or facility maintenance technicians... or even worse, many of your so-called qualified applicants are from a different countries. When asked for help from your sales people the answer was very simple - we can't find it either, but you signed a contract so pay or your credit score is going to be effected.

Date of experience: October 3, 2020
New York
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Scammer's website
September 24, 2020

Your resume and all that information will be stolen. I made a huge mistake, never ever consider to visit this careerbuilder site!
When I was searching for a website that would allow to apply multiple companies at once I came to this website. Also, on their page they have the link in the footer saying "do not want to sell your data" something like that and then it will give you a quote price to remove your information. I think they will never do it once they've got you.

Date of experience: September 24, 2020
Massachusetts
1 review
5 helpful votes
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A lot of fake recruiters
December 30, 2022

The second day I registered I got several messages said they found my resume on career builder and request me to download some chat app and to chat interview. I checked online the company are real but there is no similar positions posted. When I asked the 'recruiter' send me email to verify they just disappeared.
Definitely fraudulent.

Date of experience: December 30, 2022
New York
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Scam
March 12, 2021

I've been receiving a lot of text messages from companies I never applied to. They claim to have gotten my resume and information from CareerBuilder even when I never submitted any documents on their website.

Date of experience: March 12, 2021
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I submitted my resume to dozens of jobs through this website, and although some of the replies I received back were marketing jobs that didn't match my original request, I also received many emails and phone calls for legitimate positions. Within a week I had two interviews every day, and now I'm happily employed. I searched on indeed.com for a month and never received a single reply, so I'm happy this website actually worked.

Date of experience: May 5, 2015
Canada
1 review
7 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: July 15, 2018

Overview

CareerBuilder has a rating of 1.4 stars from 140 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with CareerBuilder most frequently mention customer service, text messages and phone number. CareerBuilder ranks 1399th among Jobs sites.

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value
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quality
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