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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated August 20th, 2026 # Reviews of CareerBuilder Ease of use 4.4 Customer Service 4.2 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews Maria Alejandra R Operation SupervisorOutsourcing/Offshoring, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “One of the best features of the application is that it attracts many candidates and also offers a range of tools that make it easy to find suitable profiles for the vacancies posted.“ January 10, 2023 PI Pranav I Technical RecruiterStaffing and Recruiting, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “At times there are profiles that do not have a resume and contact details, yet the credits are deducted“ February 16, 2023 hy harshith y Sr RecruiterStaffing and Recruiting, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “My Overall Experience with the CareerBuilder is: I'm Using from past 1-2 years, I Like all the features which provide by CareerBuilder to get the apt Resume's and got placements Aswell.“ February 24, 2023 HS Himanshu S Technical RecruiterStaffing and Recruiting, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Career Builder need more synchronization in profile's details, one instance is that a profile shows 8 yrs of experience but once opened , I came to find out he/she has more or less than 8 yrs, I have made many such attempts and it goes waste.“ July 11, 2022 VS Vidushi S Healthcare RecruiterHospital & Health Care, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “Creating strings can be a bit tricky at first but this feature comes in really handy once you're habitual to strings.“ February 10, 2023 VS Vidushi S Healthcare RecruiterHospital & Health Care, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “The resumes showcased are usually outdated and the candidates are no longer interested in any position.“ February 10, 2023 SM Seliyan M ManagerStaffing and Recruiting, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “one reason why I found this Software to be more usefull is we have both IT High Level and Low Leve category candidates are available in huge.“ November 20, 2022 Agnes A recuritmentStaffing and Recruiting, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “sometimes not shows good profiles due to the server“ March 16, 2023 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 160 available reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Mohini T. Senior IT Recruiter Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Excellent Platform For Quick Hirings And Easy Recruitment" December 5, 2022 5.0 It helps me to close many entry-level and mid-level positions. It really has a fantastic dashboard with an impressive UI. We can contact candidates directly through its platform. Pros I like that I can source candidates using keyword search and advanced boolean search. I can narrow down my search based on skills, degree, location, industry, etc. It has a good database of candidates from entry-level to senior level. It also offers job postings. It is pretty much easy to use and works on real-time updates. Cons It has lack highly technical experience candidates and its job posting algorithm needs some improvement to get more candidates. It also needs to offer a comment section so that we can update what we have spoken to candidates about. Review Source Kurapati S. Senior Human Resources Manager Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Fantastic Hiring Platform With Qualified Applicants And Useful Dashboard Features" January 4, 2023 4.0 The advanced search is excellent and very useful for finding qualified candidates with certain expertise. Using cutting-edge AI techniques, finding and selecting applicants is simple. We can use this platform to post jobs. Pros On Career Builder, sourcing and posting are much simpler than on other sites. The most effective sourcing tool for low pay rate requirements. I can use its database's advanced boolean search and keyword search to find candidates that match the job description's particular keywords and skill sets. Cons There aren't enough experienced, highly technical profiles. Many resumes were out of date. There aren't enough qualified applicants. Review Source R Reviewer owner Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Resume Database" November 24, 2022 3.0 I liked careerbuilder at first, but then found that they didn't have to amount of resumes I needed Pros I liked that you are able to search resumes by state location Cons The amount of resumes in the database seemed light compared to other databases Review Source R Reviewer Aerospace Recruiter Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "My Exprience and review for Career Builder" October 9, 2023 5.0 Pros Career Builder is helping for finding Candidates in NON - IT Sector Cons Nothing , Little trouble in finding IT candidates in Career Builder Review Source Neeraj B. Senior IT Recruiter Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Good To Source Candidates For Broad Sensed Positions" September 14, 2022 4.0 It helps me to close entry-level and mid-level positions. Its UI is easy to use. Its advanced search is pretty good and helps to source good quality resumes. Pros It is a good platform to source quality resumes and job postings. It has great filters that work well and provide good results. It is pretty easy to use and has a user-friendly interface. Cons It has a lack of technical databse and most of the resumes are outdated. The search algorithm does not work properly and provides irrelevant results. There can be a comment section so that we can put what we have discussed with the candidate. Review Source Kimberlee M. CSP Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Great candidate search software" November 9, 2021 5.0 Great site and overall experiences are above and beyond Pros I like most that it's easy to search for qualified candidates and integration of other software to careerbuilder Cons No least likes about Careerbuilder as it is great as is Review Source R Reviewer Operation Supervisor Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Great Staffing app" January 24, 2023 5.0 So far my experience with the application has been quite positive, I recommend it as a staffing tool because it facilitates the process of recruiting candidates. Pros One of the best features of the application is that it attracts many candidates and also offers a range of tools that make it easy to find suitable profiles for the vacancies posted. Cons At the moment there is no feature that should be considered for change or improvement, perhaps to continue attracting as many or more candidates than are already attracted and improve the price to the public. Review Source Erin H. Recruiting Manager Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Quality has declined" July 26, 2019 3.0 As a 3rd party recruiting company, CareerBuilder is not the best fit with our recruiting needs as we recruit for many geographic locations simultaneously. We have found much greater success using other job boards. Pros Ability to create Boolean search strings and filter by geographic location. Validity of job seekers and contact information. Support is always available and answers the phone quickly when issues arise. The Recruitment Edge feature is good to find passive candidates on LinkedIn. Cons There must be a lot of turnover internally as we have a new rep regularly. The ROI on CareerBuilder has diminished significantly. We can find the same pool of candidates on Indeed for a fraction of the cost. They keep trying to push services and features on us that we do not need. Review Source R Reviewer Salesforce Administrator Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Most Results for Recruiting" November 5, 2018 4.0 Overall this tool is great and the most used Job Board in our business. We are within the staffing space and without access to CareerBuilder we would not be successful. Pros The number of results/candidates that CareerBuilder has is what stands this tool out compared to others. Also, the user-friendliness of the UI is positive. The website is very easy to use and provides plenty of potential applicants. The filtering is also great and the candidates seem to be up to date for the most part. Cons There is not any vetting of candidates or resumes. You will get a large number of duplicate candidates or resumes. Also, there are a lot of shops that post generic resumes that do not have any contact information. I wish that CB required at least a active phone number or email address. Review Source R Reviewer Associate Recruiter Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Best job portal " January 15, 2019 5.0 I use career builder daily and it's a fantastic tool to search non technical professional. Pros I use this job portal daily. It is easy to use in short a user friendly product.It also helps the recruiter with the similar job titles which helps in the search. Cons The advance search of this portal should be improved Review Source IH Iqbal H. Delivery Manager Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "A job Portal that offers everything you need" July 10, 2023 5.0 CareerBuilder has a great filter which is "Candidate who are open to relocate", this option helps us a lot to find nonlocal candidates. Overall we have filled many non IT positions using this job board. If you are looking to hire Non It talent so this job board is one of the best choice for you so go for it... Pros CareerBuilder has a good database of IT and non IT resumes and its very easy to use and pull the information. Cons We do not get good responses for job posting. Review Source Jabar A. Technical Recruiter Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Review " February 14, 2023 5.0 This is very useful to the people who are using it daily.The resumes search, profile Store, candidate database are the very useful and helpful so the features are playing tremendous role in this career builder platform. Pros The resumes search, profile Store, candidate database are the very useful and helpful so the are playing tremendous role in this career builder platform. Cons Need to develop solutions for searching location in this platform .The resumes search, profile Store, candidate database are the very useful and helpful so the features are playing tremendous role in this career builder platform. Review Source R Reviewer Recruitment Consultant Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Applicant Tracking Done Right" August 27, 2019 4.0 For my business, and personal time to fill on requisitions, CareerBuilder Applicant Tracking has been pretty awesome. I find that I am still finding the candidates I wish to target without the use of multiple systems, without extra stress, and tons of time/effort spent. I would absolutely recommend this product to anyone working in meticulous hiring practices, as it has been essential to my everyday sourcing needs. Pros I feel that ease of use is the most attractive feature about CareerBuilder Applicant Tracking. As someone who is very much used to utilizing multiple different platforms to source on a daily basis, the ability to use this one singularly and still find many of the same potential candidates I would across several others is fantastic. I feel like this gives me "time back in my day," something that my company highly values and pushes wherever possible. Cons I will say that of all applicant tracking systems/mining sites, this one presents as a little clunky. While the resume database is expansive and finding different candidates through boolean strings is efficient, it's not the most visually appealing site in the same regard. The information could be presented in a more streamlined way, similarly to Indeed, and I think that would make it slightly more user friendly. Quite honestly though, there isn't a whole lot of negative in the use of this software. Review Source Kumuthavalli P. Team lead Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Best software for sourcing " January 4, 2023 5.0 Almost 2+ years using this software for recruiting Pros I highly recommend this software to everyone for their recruiting purpose. Source the candidates and post the jobs all easy Cons I don't have anything to say here. Perfect easy and best for recruiting. Definitely others will like this software Review Source R Reviewer Team Lead Recruitment Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "CareerBuilder is a good tool" October 20, 2022 4.0 My overall experience is really good using CareerBuilder. It provides good features and good search results that helps in quick recruiting. Pros This software provides good search results and has awesome features like advanced search and more. Cons Sometimes it provides irrelevant candidates which fine because it’s manageable. Review Source Himanshu . Technical Recruiter Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "CareerBuilder " July 15, 2022 5.0 Overall , My Experience with CareerBuilder is good and I really like the filter feature it has Pros Career Builder has one of the best FILTER for sourcing candidates, there are lots of filter to choose , this helps in finding the right ,specific candidates as per your requirements. Cons Career Builder need more synchronization in profile's details, one instance is that a profile shows 8 yrs of experience but once opened , I came to find out he/she has more or less than 8 yrs, I have made many such attempts and it goes waste. Review Source R Reviewer Manager Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "My Review on CB" December 21, 2022 4.0 Identifying low and mid level technology is easy in this which helped us recently to fill lot of desktop roles which was open recently. also we can find lot of customer service professionals as well Pros one reason why I found this Software to be more usefull is we have both IT High Level and Low Leve category candidates are available in huge. Cons there is nothing to mention here how ever like other similar software's the quantity of high end technology candidates and Visibility of details are low Review Source R Reviewer Recruitment Sourcing Specialist Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "CareerBuilder Review" October 15, 2024 5.0 My experience with CareerBuilder is great, I use it everyday and it is always full with hundreds of new resumes a day. Pros CareerBuilder makes it very easy to find new candidates for jobs that are qualified. Cons What I liked least about CareerBuilder was how hard it was to use the booleean portion. Review Source R Reviewer Senior Recruiter Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "CareerBuilder was an easy, unique and amazing website. It givesi wanted me a lot of options." April 18, 2018 4.0 This search engine has helped me search most of my resumes over the years. It has also given me ease to contact resumes that I find fit for the job. I also like the filters which help narrow down the resumes i eventually see. I mostly always recommend CareerBuilder to my connects. Pros The Career Builder website was very easy to navigate, and search for jobs in my area, and had more choices available in a reasonable distance from my home. I also, like the friendly but simple layout of the website. An improvement would perhaps be adding an extensive add-on that helped out with both cover letters and resumes and make it so it is easy to make cover letters specific to certain jobs.Overall it is not entirely different from other sites but it's always wonderful. Cons the least i like about the website is that you cannot quick view the resume to be sure enough to open it since it is all about the views. Also the filter for years of experience can sometimes give you not so relevant results. It would be nice to have more precise results. Review Source Vidushi S. Healthcare Recruiter Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Easy to Use but Outdated Resumes" February 15, 2023 3.0 Pros Creating strings can be a bit tricky at first but this feature comes in really handy once you're habitual to strings. It makes it really easy for us to find suitable candidates with relevant experience. Cons The resumes showcased are usually outdated and the candidates are no longer interested in any position. The database should be updates daily or at least weekly. The candidates should be aware of their resumes being put up to be reached out by recruiters because we often get irritated candidates desperately wanting to get their names "off the list". Review Source R Reviewer HR Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Career Builder - An Easy to Use way to find candidates" November 10, 2021 5.0 Overall, I like this program and the ease of use with minimal training needed Pros This is a very easy platform to utilize Cons I wish more candidates would utilize the program b/c that lessens the amount of attraction there tends to be Review Source Verified Reviewer Recruitment Specialist Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Being recruiter" February 6, 2019 5.0 All in all it was a great experience and still can do better as there is always scope of growing. Pros Very easy ,simple and also it saves a lot of time, CB is really doing well and giving a great competition to its competitors, no doubt its the best currently. Cons Just a couple of things that all the software's have a issue with that is the lagging problem and at times after update a bit difficult to understand it. Review Source R Reviewer HR Manager Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Career builder - Your go to portal for all your recruitment needs!" October 6, 2025 4.0 Career Builder is a good search engine and research tool for employers/recruiters that have to supply towards the every increasing demand of the business market. It also helps me reach alot of candidates that do not apply through other sources that we currently use. Greatly Recommended despite a few cons. Pros I have been using this portal to screen candidates and the best feature to use here is you can refine your search based on the number of years for the skill you are looking for or the industry that you need them to come from. They also have a huge data base that in turn gives you a huge lot of qualified candidates to pick from. You also receive a decent number of responses from candidates since the notification feature helps you keep track of all the activity on this portal. Cons There are not too many but i do come across the part where I run out of the number of Job postings on the portal and then have to buy more postings. They also have a daily limit on the number of resumes you can view in a day. Also another con but i know that this will only get better depending on the plan you choose to buy. The portal does not allow you to bulk send resume to review later. You will have to flip them one by one which is just time consuming. Review Source Gufran C. Team Lead Recruitment Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Highly recommending this tool." June 27, 2022 5.0 Pros This is the best job portal we came across, best candidate results. Cons Nothing specific, lot of good features. Enjoying this tool. Review Source Verified Reviewer Project Consultant Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Strong search capabilities" November 13, 2019 5.0 Great experience! The search capability is really strong! Definitely one of the top five candidate searching portals. Pros After working for a busienss process outsourcing company whose main client was CareerBuilder we used the CareerBuilder portal to search and track applicants for 2 main industries: health and engineering. It worked superbly! The strongest and most important feature it has is the search capabilities, you can get pretty granular, especially with location allowing to search by mile radius within specific areas. Cons It does have quite a few bells and whistles, so expect at least a slight learning curve. If you're absolutely new to this portal, you will have to spend a fair amount of time in order to completely adopt it into your workflow. Once you get a hang of all of its buttons and features, it's smooth sailing from there. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.