CareerBuilderReviews 140

Months ago I uploaded my resume on CareerBuilder after not having much luck on other sites. Literally the next day, I received numerous text messages for jobs (despite opting out of allowing texting) and emails. All data entry job scams and 'sales opportunities'.

After a few weeks of not getting anything but scams sent to me, I decided to take my information and resume off the site. Low and behold, CareerBuilder does not allow you to take your resume down yourself once you upload it. You have to fill out a form online asking for them to remove your information and resume. This alone is such a red flag, and should be grounds for a class action lawsuit. Why can I not take my OWN RESUME THAT I UPLOADED off of the website? It makes zero sense to me at all, how does this help users? After filling out this form, weeks later I received an email saying it is taking longer than expected, and that it would be another 30 days to take my account off their site. Are you joking? My assumption is that they get a flood of requests constantly because people come to the same realization that I did, and they can't keep up.

Ever since, I now get at least 3 phone calls a day from different numbers with the same area code and close to the same digits for the rest of the number. All of them immediately hang up when I answer. I block every single number, yet after months, I'm still getting calls EVERY.SINGLE.DAY. From new similar numbers to those I've already blocked.

My list of blocked numbers is astronomical at this point, and I cannot believe that just from uploading my resume on CareerBuilder, that I'm truly considering getting a new phone number due to all of these calls.

Reader, please DO NOT, and I repeat DO NOT use CareerBuilder. You will have your information stored and so easily accessible to scammers, and you can't take down your own resume once you put it in. Literally any other job website is better than this one. I hope one day there is a class action lawsuit filed against this company because their practices are foul, and they obviously do not care about their users data security at all.

Career builder is a SCAM! I just looked at jobs on their site and now I receive calls and texts almost daily saying they have my resume. I never put my resume or information of this site! When I called and emailed to report it no help was given. Is Careerbuilder selling my information or using my to identify to scam employers to thinking they actually have candidates?! This is atrocious, BBB please hold them accountable and check their books, this is dirty!

I really do not recommend creating an account with CareerBuilder.com and adding your personal information. I created mine mid 2019 looking for a new job with an email I use only for medical, school, and job related contact. I have not used it since that time period, I have all the emails from the website programmed to go to a folder instead of to my inbox. Since creating an account, I have always received emails from scammers and phishers. I finally realized a pattern of the emails stating that they're getting my information from CareerBuilders.com. Some may think the phishers/scammer are just guessing that I have an account with them, but I have had too many of them for it to be just a coincidence.

Edit to Add Additional Spam Emails. Also VOID the email it is being sent to that is false and not my email.

As far as i can tell, careerbuilder is exclusively scams and diversions. To all those looking for employment, this is salt in the wound. Run the other way and spread the word: careerbuilder sux.
Good luck finding some income ELSEWHERE

They are not even value for 1 star...
Don't share your details...they are fraud...
I have lost my 13k

Out of work and down on my luck. Completed profile and uploaded resume. All I get are scammers texting or emailing me for interviews with companies that ARE NOT hiring.

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.

I realize that I'm just the guy in the band who doesn't hook up the mixing board or lights. Which is to say, I'm not the most technologically savvy member of the band, real or metaphorically speaking. That being said, every single time I've tried to "apply directly at the company's site" via careerbuilder.com, it just takes me down another rabbit hole or portal that I never asked to be taken down. Unless the powers-that-be at CareerBuilder are independently wealthy, and have nothing better to do with their time than to waste the time of others, who are genuinely looking for a job, I sincerely hope they read this, and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. -Bruce J. Haley

Applied to some job listings and was immediately bombarded with fake job offers from scammers in my email and on my phone. They now have my information from my resume as well. Don't put yourself at risk. DO NOT USE THIS SITE! If you've already used the site and are in the same boat at me whatever you do do not click any link in the emails or message and give them no information.

Today is 2/11/23. Since posting my review January 24th, I have received many more fake job interview requests by text and email, even though I keep blocking. For several of the last "jobs" where the scammers pose as representing a real company, I have reached out to the real company and provide copies of the email or text thread so that the company can take legal action (I'm an attorney, and this is my hobby). I have also file a complaint against CareerBuilder.com with FTC.GOV. If you are looking for a legitimate job board, try pleases like Indeed or Glassdoor.

Unless you like being called 30-45 per day, every single day, including weekends, from nothing but what my phone automatically marks as "spam" "medium threat" (some even come across as a high threat). They are all from the middle east and are calling from a call center. You can hear many other voices in the background talking to other poor suckers. Even after you take your resume down and take it off of view by potential employers, these scammers still call you. Soon I will have to change my phone number! Do Not, under any circumstances, apply, create a profile, or upload your resume onto this site!

Received 3 job offers right away. I was so excited! Sigh! SMH! Waste of freakin time! I know that I know better! Ugh No one is paying people $30 plus for data entry

For every job I've applied for on CareerBuilder there was a download a wire or provide info that's already on my resume? There are CB staff that's behind this because the staff is not supportive and I keep getting these BS checks these clowns think I'm depositing in my bank? Come on CareerBuilder? Do better!

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.

Ever since I created a profile on Career Builder, I am constantly contacted by Scammers. At least 1 per day if not 2. Are there any real employers using Career Builders?

I applied for one job on CareerBuilder and within a day have received 4 scan interview requests! Don't use this site if you don't want constant scams to your phone and email!

I barely just signed up with Career builder and I start getting people from India calling me, texting me, and I always do my research for companies that are hiring, so I did that, and they are just stupid scammers. I didnt even finish my profile and they were saying Oh I came across your profile and with your expertise I think you are a superb fit for this position! Dude...nah nah nah...shutup.

All of the jobs that I've applied to have been a scam. Most of the job listings don't even state the company that they're advertising for. I keep getting scam/ shady texts/ emails from "recruiters" or "hiring managers" asking for personal information or offer the job right away so they can get more information. It is making the job search really difficult and frustrating. I wouldn't trust this site.