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What happened to you? I first used you in 2004 when I moved to Los Angeles and had near instant success finding a job. I have used you several times thereafter in job searches over the years and maybe didn’t find a position solely because of you each time but you surely gave me good leads.
I am now once again in the market for a job so I turned to you, my good old friend careerbuilder. I uploaded a new resume. I created a new job search with my particular job wants. Not that any of that matters though, because since the moment my profile has been reanimated on your site, I have been inundated with emails from companies wanting me to do things I am either not qualified for, expressly do not want to do and/or in locations I am not willing to work.
Basically, your site has turned into an email farm for recruiting companies. I have gotten emails about being a financial advisor. What? Financial Advisor? The words “financial” and “advisor” are not found anywhere on my resume. How is this not spam? I go to your site to review your policy and apparently you embrace these emails and take a sort of “if you don’t like it, then you can get the hell out” kind of attitude. The exact words from the Career Builder Customer Support are, “As per our terms and conditions, when a job seeker is signed up with Careerbuilder, they have agreed to receive solicited emails pertaining to job offers, even if those jobs are not related to their profession.” Apparently, the focus of your website has turned from being about finding people jobs to selling email addresses to recruiting companies so they can spam their way to commissions. Throw enough at the wall and see what sticks, I guess.
Well, to each their own. And to my own, ex-pal careerbuilder, I will be taking my business to the actually relevant, helpful and not-yet-corrupted indeed.com.
xxoo Michelle
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