Comments on: Why CareerBuilder.com Sucks Sucks Sucks

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:54:34 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Mark. I’m glad I’m not the only one. This post was the only way I felt I could protest. *shakes fist in the general direction of ‘the man’.*

By: mark

mark — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:21:11 +0000

Thanks Heather, for expressing the same level of frustration as I did when I found my inbox filled with spam (which prompted me to deactivate my resume). Piss poor business practices.

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:34:10 +0000

While I agree most legitimate jobs are on company sites, I’ve had good luck with Monster.com and Computerjobs.com. Thanks for the comment Jimbo!

By: jimbo

jimbo — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:40:41 +0000

Searching for a job didn’t used to be this way.

The first position I ever held after school (albeit a poor one) was through careerpath.com, a terrific little site that archived the daily employment sections of newspapers all over the nation. Unfortunately, there is no careerpath.com anymore (guess the parent company), and newspaper employment ads have become a joke. Careerbuilder (ineffectualizer).com monopolized a majority of the job search industry, making the search a cattle call at best and an inundation with page after page of bogus postings at worst. To be fair, it’s not just careerbuilder; indeed.com and simplyhired.com are basically in the same vein (although I actually landed a temp position advertised on indeed.com in 2007 before it became what it is today). I’ve found the most legitimate on-line postings are on company websites.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:46:12 +0000

It is amazing to me that many executives don’t understand that making a site *useful* will cause people to come back to it. It seems their thinking is that if they post “No Jobs Found” they will lose out on potential traffic, when in actuality, the opposite is true.

By: Festus Haggen

Festus Haggen — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:23:47 +0000

The reason I think Careerbuilder.com sucks is because their saved searches are not selective and their is no way to contact anyone to tell them to limit my search to within 50 miles of home. If you don’t have a job in my field that is within commutable distance fine, I can deal with that. Just post a note saying \No Jobs Found\. Don’t send me a listing of all similar job titles from here to timbucktoo which I have to scroll through and then delete the e-mail everyday. I was a database analyst. It’s not that hard to create a simple query. Who’s asleep at the wheel and driving the bus? Who you gonna call?

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:07:09 +0000

Holy Wow, Mr. Hacks. Three years is a long time to be out of work. I’ve not had many issues with Monster.com security…Have you tried computerjobs.com? I’ve had some luck with them in the past.

If you’re a tech professional — and from your nick I’m guessing programming? — maybe you could work for yourself.

Unfortunately, you’d have to compete with all the Indians who charge only half what you would, but there are so many places who have been burned by Indian programmers, that you might have some luck…

By: MrHacks

MrHacks — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:09:47 +0000

Three years later, and a recession later (Thank’s President Bush, Wall Street Bankers, and every selfish sonavabitch on the planet. DIAF!), still unemployed. Still getting offers from POLAND and from every deposed Nigerian prince. Still unemployed.

With all the other businesses that liked that were in my area, that went out of business, or moved away before I could ever gain enough experience to work for them, Why oh why isn’t CareerBuilder out of business?

I can’t trust Monster.com since they’re security sucks. Dice.com has been ineffective even though it is focused on my field of interest, and HotJobs links your Yahoo! profile to any resume you post…and let’s not forget how much Yahoo! is interested in saving your mail on their computer or any old websites that you had hosted on GeoCities to promote your work.

There needs to be a new site for jobs. I bet if Google ran a job website, I would be employeed by now. If they can program Pac-Man into JavaScript and HTML5, then they can help people find jobs without going to crappy sites like CareerBuilder.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:23:49 +0000

@T_man: I will say that Monster.com has been very good with my private information. I’ve been on there for years and not had any issues. You might want to check them out. (Beware the forms that are already filled out…make sure you check tiny little “No Thanks” link below the message.)

By: t_man

t_man — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:04:09 +0000

I would just like to agree with everything everyone has already said. How did people get jobs before the internet? News papers and employment agencies? seems antiquated but until a real job search site exists that’s how I’ll search.