CareerBuilder.com It's useful to CareerBuilder but not much to job-seekers. empolyment pyramid schemes, telemarketing from home, work at home, franchise opportunities and self-employment schemes that require people to pay fees upfront and get NOTHING in return Chicago Illinois

I agree with the original poster. Careerbuilder has devolved into nothing more than a store front for scam artists. I've seen so many scams and frauds published on Careerbuilder. There has been such a spike in scams and frauds since this economic meltdown started that the FTC and DOJ are starting to prosecute some of the fraudsters. I think they should be prosecuting the enablers like Careerbuilder,too. Without Careerbuilder to promote their scams and frauds to millions of people, the scammers and fraudsters would not be nearly so successful. I see it as Careerbuilder being in collusion with the thieves.

And the services offered through Careerbuilder for a price are rip-offs all unto themselves. Their resume writers, for instance. Don't waste your time or money. I found another site, a freelance work-from-home site, that offers freelance "opportunities" for people to write resumes for Careerbuilder, and they pay like one dollar per resume to the people doing the writing of the resume. So, their resume service is 100% pure rip-off; you might get a resume make over, but you could pay the third grader down the block $5 and get as much quality.

And their resume distribution service? There's another rip-off. Maybe they send your resume and maybe they don't. You don't have any way of knowing if they did or didn't. And chances are, they didn't. Or maybe they did send them to a bunch of companies - companies that are not hiring. Or maybe to some of their scam artists and frauds.

And that's besides the fact that they have so much script and advertising running on the site now it's been rendered all but FUBAR. You can't even navigate around the site or do searches any more because all the pure junk that has to load before you can even begin to look at the fraudulent job postings.

I just wish the authorities would start prosecuting the companies like Careerbuilder for their part in perpetuating fraud and scams. By taking the ads without vetting the company posting the ad, they are complict in criminal activity. They are handling people's senstive personal information and they have a responsibility to know who they are allowing to review that information. Period.

I have to agree with the original complaint.

As of today I counted 24 different postings on Careerebuilder for: We Work Online (And Love It) - Up To $7,500 Monthly -(then I got tired and stopped counting)
All of the postings were for different areas of employment.

So, to the person who tried to validate this site:
We all know how much money is being paid to list these INVALID employment
postings. We all know how much is paid to review resumes posted that were posted for free. We are aware of unethical people accessing personal contact info
on the resumes that were posted in good faith.

We all know what the bottom line is here:$$$$$$$$$$$$ for Careerbuilders. You
summed it up and validated the amount of money involved.

Marketing schemes, schools, employment agencies, etc. are using these sites
for recruiting tools and are being allowed to do so. Again, $$$$$$$$$$$$.

If there were this many VALIDATED employment offers available the Unemployment
Compensations offices would not be going crazy right now trying to keep up with
benefit claims.

The bottom line (again)- there is no Due Diligence done to verify these postings.

Sorry- but the employment sites are not being used for the purpose for which they advertise.

Which brings me to another issue.........false advertising practices.

But, that is for another day......... I have to go wade through all of the fraudulent
job postings now.

i work for careerbuilder.com and as a small business specialist for new england, let me clarify a few points. first off, employers must pay to list job postings and to view resumes. it costs a considerable amount to advertise with us, and that keeps a majority of our clients legit. as a sales employee, i can testify to the fact that all companies that i work with personally (about 65-70), i have a relationship with. yes, there is a purchase online option, but any jobseeker with serious intrest should be researching the company's information before applying. most of the companies that use our site have their own corporate website and 95% of the time it is listed in the posting. if the position being applied for is with a staffing agency, then this should be noted as well, and again minimal online research can give you a good idea if the company is legit or not. as far as making the application process easier, there is a button at the bottom of all postings to 'apply now'. this sends an email directly to the company's careerbuilder account and listed email address. when companies log in to our system, all applications are shown. for their privacy we do not require them to show the email address publicly because most of the time it is the address of an individual in the human resources department. our job advertisements turn so much of a response that it can be overwhelming to employers, and recieving emails every day from prospective candidates would get tiring. how would you feel if you were in the position of recieving 50+ emails daily checking on the application status in addition to applications? we try to keep the process simple for both parties. if they're interested they'll let you know. if they want you to contact them about the status of your application, they'll let you know in the advertisement. that is the reason you see the job id number in the html as where you're sending you application to. again, if you research the company online there will usually be contact info listed on the company's website that you can use to get in touch with the company in regard to the status of your application. careerbuilder.com is #1 in the nation when it comes to online recruitment. we are owned by gannett, mc clatchy, tribune and microsoft. some of our major clients are walmart, coca cola, and boeing. i hope that this will add to our already legitimate status. thanks.

Yea I'll give careerbuilder, Monster and some others credit for having some legitimate companies offering jobs about 15% but the other 85% are scams/frauds/misleading companies offering jobs. And yes careerbuilder is a SHADY company only because they advertise scam/fraud/misleading companies on their site , any company who contributes to letting scam/fraud/misleading companies advertise or send job offering emails to their customers are SHADY also.
Let's call it what it is and don't try and misconstrude what Careerbuilder ,Monster and HiringMax does let anybody/anyone advertise just as long as they pay a fee. So in other words we will let any scam/fraud/misleading company advertise and scam/fraud/mislead anybody looking at this site and don't care what happens or what anybody thinks of our company. Is that what your saying?
Does other legitimate companies let scams/frauds/misleading products in their store? And if it is found to be a scam/fraud/misleading product it is taken away and addressed properly , which is the companies job and not the consumers to check such products or companies if they want to be known as a company who can be trusted to use. If not the truth and complaints will get out sooner or later by consumers to let other consumers know not to use it , granted there are some consumers that just like to complain about anything and everything because it didn't go their way. But come on look at some of the complaints that are not slandering but telling what kind of treatment/ Job offers they are getting from Careerbuilder and that's what kind of company you want to work for? One that has some scam/fraud/misleading companies affiliated/advertised on their site before what is Careerbuilders job to check for scams/frauds before posting and not the consumer. Like I stated before every LEGITIMATE company does check out services/products before selling/advertising them that's what the difference is between a SHADY and a LEGITIMATE company, FYI Mike.

This is whats wrong with people/companies like you, just as long as I get paid what do I care what kind of servise we advertise. If it wasn't for Ripoff Report consumers would be getting ripped off even more, why do you think there are sites like this? Because of companies like careerbuilder who should be doing their job in the first place and not advertise these scam/frauds that just says you support there scams/frauds. People should be able to go to careerbuilder website and look for a legitimate company , but like you said as long as they fill the spot who cares we're making money. Well when it gets shut down and you don't have a job anymore because there is too many scams/frauds/misleading companies on this site which it is already who'll be crying then. If we wanted to check every company for being a scam/fraud then why use careerbuilder.com we can do that for ourselves. P.S. Check out Chicago BBB for your great companies reputation , just because your getting a job there doesn't mean it's reputable/legitimate or didn't you check it out like you always do? BBB is not the only place people are complaining about careerbuilder Oh yea I forgot we are all wrong right Mike because your getting a job there and who cares what we advertise as long as we get paid. Who looks like an Idiot now?

Part of the interview process Careerbuilder had me do was to shadow sales reps as they made their calls. First of all, Careerbuilder gets its leads from a 3rd party company, so they have no idea who is a scam and who isn't. Also, the sales rep I was watching was calling a bunch of architectural businesses. Um, those architectural companies aren't scams trying to sell pyramid schemes or whatever, they're just architects.

And yes, I realize that eventually Careerbuilder employees will inadvertently run into a number of companies from their leads that happen to be scams. But you know what? If you're looking for a job, and you're not researching the companies that you're applying for, then you're just stupid. I look up every single company I apply to on ripoffreport.com. Sometimes I look at stupid reviews like this one that are obviously biased against the company and I just ignore them. And sometimes I take the advice to heart. And you're making it sound like Careerbuilder has some sort of partnership with these scamming companies. Careerbuilder just tries to sell space on their website. They're just a business with no shady business practices whatsoever. Deal with it.

By the way, every single career website, like Monster or Hotjobs or Spotlight or whatever, has scamming companies on them. But they also have legitamate companies. Personally I can attest that through Monster, I've found both. That's just the way these sites work.