CyberCoders

Cybercoders was probably one of the first companies to leverage the power of the Internet to simplify talent acquisition. That is probably the only positive thing I can say for them because everything else about them either screams "scam" or "run away!"

Cybercoders prides itself on having hundreds of thousands of jobs available on their website, yet if you do even the slightest amount of digging under the covers you uncover Pandora's Box.

The homepage looks harmless enough - it has two search fields (one for job title or keyword, the second for city, state or zip code) as well as the standard content that you would see on any other talent acquisition site. This is where you will find the first of many booby traps:
1. The word "Keyword" literally means what it says find a word (or phrase if they are in quotes) in the entire job description. Further, if you put down a location, it searches far beyond that location to give you an artificially high number of results -- that's pretty sneaky.

In general, Cybercoders "recruiters" (aka their overpriced telemarketers) do a pretty thorough job making you think that they actually care about you as a candidate. Some share personal information about them or try to think of witty things that will motivate you to trust them. Like with any other recruiter out there, they are there for one purpose only - place you in a job quickly so they can get their commission.

Since many of these "recruiters" probably managed to get this job after failing as waiters at the local Denny's or as telemarketers selling timeshares, many probably don't really know how to use a computer, or at the very least the extremely difficult software that they need to use to post jobs and the like. One of the features that they probably are taught to "forget" are removing jobs that are older than dirt.

Once you search for a specific job and wade through tons of "irrelevant jobs" for any number of reasons, you may actually find a couple that look reasonably good. The sad thing is that since you are at the mercy of these people, you may discover that the job is nothing like it is listed -- wrong post date, wrong title, wrong pay, wrong location, in short most of the listings are red herrings to help them capture gullible fools who can't find a job on their own or with a regular recruiter.

In some cases, the recruiter will provide just enough hints to help you find the job listing elsewhere - and if they claim they are the only company looking to fill that job, run for the hills because they are lying - guaranteed.

Long story short, only check out Cybercoders if you are desperate and masochistic. In the five + years that I have dealt with them, I have talked with three of their recruiters and only got one interview out of many MANY submissions.