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California
53 reviews
130 helpful votes
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A Useless Job Search Site
December 21, 2024

Even after I've saved my preferences, Careerbuilder keeps sending job notices in the North Highlands area which is two hours away from where I live. I've already uploaded my resume, but it keeps telling me to build my resume. I attempt to type in my new e-mail but it keeps saving my old e-mail. This is annoying.

Date of experience: December 6, 2024
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I kept getting fake job offers
I finally called one out as a scam. He threatened me and said he had my address and was coming to my house! Career builder does nothing about it. Remove your resume now!

Date of experience: July 4, 2024
Arizona
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Nothing but scams!
December 14, 2023

Just don't use this site. The amount of scam texts, emails and phone calls for fake jobs is insane. Ever since I put my information on this website, it's been several a day. Save yourself the headache.

Date of experience: December 14, 2023
Texas
1 review
10 helpful votes
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THE WORST!
July 12, 2023

This site is a breeding ground for scammers. You will be bombarded with text, emails, etc from bogus "jobs". I have applied to over a 100 jobs on this site and not 1 legit business or employer has contacted me. Career Builder seems to be doing nothing at all to protect the users of this site. You will frequently receive emails full of grammatical errors, request for pics of your drivers license, etc. It is unfortunate people cant even seek work without being made victims of scams like these. The scammers are dumb to say the least because why target people who 9 out of 10 are looking for work because they have no money.

Date of experience: July 12, 2023
Albania
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Terrible service
August 11, 2023

One of the worst services ever. Career Builder and Monster.com might be the worst companies ever when it comes to customer support, or to anything, really. Terrible employee conduct, rude and short tempered, never get anything done, and I honestly do not understand how these companies make money. Either way, we moved away from them before they got a chance to scam us. I would advise you to be careful out there.

Date of experience: August 11, 2023
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I wish I would have checked these reviews before signing a contract with CareerBuilder. If I could give less than one star, I would.

To start with the agent, I signed up with immediately stopped responding to me. I had to trace down and track down managers who were unresponsive and didn't call me back. I finally came upon someone who tried to help me, but I got very minimal traction from this platform. The service was terrible and it was a complete waste, frustration and loss.

I've been trying to dispute the charges and to no avail. I would stay away from this platform because they do not really care about their customers.

Date of experience: May 16, 2023
Delaware
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Worst ever
September 4, 2023

Career Builder is SELLING your information.
In three days I've had 6 scams.
Contacted them, thru email. They take no responsibility, just say, yeah they use our logo.

Seriously, it's hard enough finding a job. Now MY job is to weed out Career Builder scams

Date of experience: September 4, 2023
California
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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SCAM SITE
February 29, 2024

Look at all the negative reviews for this so called Job site. Add me to the list. I get several emails and texts a day, all very suspicious. It's hard to even delete your resume, as well as deleting your account. They are so shady. DO NOT TRUST THEM. I'm reporting them to the BBB. Their reviews on the BBB speak for themselves. Disgusting breeding ground for foreign scammers. Be warned.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
Minnesota
1 review
1 helpful vote
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My experience was really bad and when I asked them to make it right they said two times that they would give me a discount off future products (not going to buy any more services!). I did not get the services I paid for and was stuck in a contract for 3 months.

Date of experience: July 27, 2023
Texas
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Waste of emails from them
September 28, 2023

I am really not happy with Career Builders. 1) They send you jobs that have nothing to do with your resume or skill sets. 2) When you do click on something of interest, it takes you to another internet employment site that is collecting your information by asking for your email address and then they start sending you ALOT of junk emails. What a waste.

Date of experience: September 28, 2023
New York
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Rip Off Stay Away
November 2, 2023

You deserve no stars, but couldn't post without at least 1. I was suppose to get free trial never did, I logged in on 10/27/23 and made sure not set on auto renew, then still got billed anyways. Never received 1 single application for a client service representative (easy job to get applications for) and then got billed for 2 months of nothing and I will be disputing with cc company! You are a scammer!

Date of experience: November 2, 2023
New Jersey
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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HORRIBLE!
January 25, 2024

It was good back in its day, but so many changes made to website that did not need to be made. They could not just leave it alone! IT IS UNUSABLE! ABSOLUTELY UNUSABLE! Navigation is limited to a small window in the bottom corner. REALLY? Jobs are mostly junk and spam bs. A million instacart and jobs like that. It is as bad as monster is, which is pretty much the same load of crap.

Date of experience: January 25, 2024
Illinois
1 review
4 helpful votes
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A nuisance
December 12, 2023

Me posting my resume on this site was the worst mistake. I get over 10 CALLS every single day. Some jobs I'm not even qualified to work. I swear I believe they sold all my information overseas. I have never heard of not a one of the companies that that called and I have taking contracts for over 20 years. Everyone is from foreign nationalities. No English fluent recruiters.Can barely understand them.DO NOT POOST YOUR RESUME HERE!

Date of experience: December 12, 2023
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Horrible
October 4, 2023

Resume search worked great for the first 6 months. I'm not sure what happened but now there's a glitch where you can't get past first 20 results even if there's hundreds there. Customer service is rude and almost non-existent. I've been on screenshares to try and solve the problem to no avail. I've asked at this point dozens of times to speak to someone in contract cancellation as the product isn't working and I'm told by client support you have to email contractrenewal for that and they won't talk to anyone on the phone. I've emailed contract renewal now 7 times with no response. If that isn't frustrating enough on my most recent, I believe 14th or 15th, call I was told about the fine print on auto renewal. You can't just email them and tell them the product doesn't work and you want to cancel. There's a very specific way you have to email them to opt out of auto-renewal. It used to be a reputable company but it's trash now.

Date of experience: October 4, 2023
Arizona
1 review
7 helpful votes
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This website attracts scammers. I posted my resume on career builder and with in 3 days I received 7 text messages/emails from scammers that would only do interviews through chat messages. I have yet to receive contact from an actual person that is looking to hire me. The messages/emails claimed to be from legitimate companies but were unable to provide a phone number to contact the company at. I completed one interview and they said they were going to send me a check in the mail for office supplies. There was no verification of age, new hire paperwork or any way to talk to an actual person.

Date of experience: December 21, 2020
Florida
1 review
6 helpful votes
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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!

Date of experience: January 20, 2023
Oregon
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I had marked "email only" for recruiters to contact, but that didn't matter. I was immediately inundated with spam calls/texts from every fake made up company.

Date of experience: July 19, 2023
Florida
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Super Negative Experience
September 15, 2020

If you're looking for a place to source candidates for your company, I would advise you not to use CareerBuilder. I've never been so dissatisfied with a vendor in my life. They refused to refund us despite knowing we were absolutely not happy a couple of days into our 3-month contract. It became really clear to me quickly that most of their clients were completely dissatisfied and they potentially didn't have a customer that could share a positive experience. The sales guy was nice but I do hope he finds a position elsewhere because it's a terrible company.

Date of experience: September 15, 2020
Georgia
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Do not put your email address or phone number anywhere on the site, or you'll get phone calls and emails from 'recruiters' about unrelated random jobs, IE, spam.
Wait, how can you avoid putting contact info on a career site? Aha... yeah don't use CareerBuilder it's trash.
Recommended jobs are also rubbish

Date of experience: May 8, 2019
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

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 1407th among Jobs sites.

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