Complaint / Review
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

CAREERBUILDER.com is yet another one of those "career" websites that is mostly useful to its investors, but NOT to job-seekers. I would stay AWAY from this so-called "service."

First, CareerBuilder sells services it calls "upgrades", at various price levels, that promise to give the job seeker increased exposure. But the benefits aren't tangible or spelled out, and in my case I received no benefit whatsoever that I could tell for my $50 for one month's "upgrade." Not a lot of money perhaps, but $50 too much to receive NOTHING in return.

Second, CareerBuilder promises to make the application process simple, with a few clicks... But at least 50% of the time, all their link does is take you to the employer's career site, where you then have to fill out that employer's online forms, sometimes pages upon pages, answering questions and getting yet another password and login. These can take up to an hour... Each! So what's the value? What WOULD be of value would be for the clowns at CareerBuilder to develop an open-standards set of online forms which the applicant could fill out ONE time, and require all its potential employers to use the information already populated in these forms. What a concept! Rocket science it ain't.

Third, even when one CAN submit a resume with one click, the email address to which your resume is sent is some gibberish such as job2346%$&*#@careerbuilder.com... The address doesn't associate the resume/application with a company or position, even when the potential employer's name is know. The result? It's virtually IMPOSSIBLE to track applications and responses in your email program, or to follow up with any potential employer.

Finally, a lot of the so-called "jobs" listed on CareerBuilder.com are not jobs at all, they are pyramid schemes, telemarketing from home, franchise "opportunities" and self-employment schemes that require people to pay fees upfront and get NOTHING in return. Often there are long lists of IDENTICAL position, listing each state individually, when these are merely fronts for so-called "home-based" businesses. This is exploitative and deliberately misleading, and prey upon unemployed, broke and desperate people.

SHAME on CareerBuilder for listing these frauds!

Again - CareerBuilder.com is mostly tripe and nonsense.