Why You Should Not Post Your Resume on Careerbuilder.com
Jillita Horton
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A long time ago I made the mistake of posting my resume on Careerbuilder.com, hoping that I could get some freelance writing and editing gigs this way. Since then, I have been inundated with all sorts of spam, many of it from entities claiming to be representative of Careerbuilder.com. 
I know this spam is the result of my e-mail being on my resume, which was on Careerbuilder.com, for several reasons:
No. 1: Oftentimes, the sender's address has "careerbuilder" in it. I know these aren't legitimately from the careerbuilder.com site because NONE of these job offers are ever addressed to me by name.
No. 2: The job offers are NEVER related to what's on my resume. In fact, the offers have absolutely no relevance whatsoever to writing or journalism. And most sound like money-stealing schemes.
No. 3: These strange job offers keep showing up in the e-mail "in" box of the very same e-mail that's on my resume. I have numerous sub-accounts, and only this particular sub-account keeps getting these stupid job offers.
No. 4: Sometimes, something in the body copy of the message mentions careerbuilder, but again, these messages never address me by name.
I have never received a freelance editorial offer as a result of my resume being on careerbuilder.com. So, I don't know just who searches this site, but apparently, entities in search of writers and editors never go near it.
Having being totally fed up with the careerbuilder.com's site's inability to keep e-mail information protected (and I'm sure there has got to be a way to do this; for Pete's sake, we have the technology to put a man on the moon. You mean the Web designer can't figure out a way to keep spammers from getting e-mails off of resumes? The setup on the careerbuilder site is very loose and weak, for lack of better terms), I finally deleted my resume from the system.
Like that was really going to make a difference! I continued to get the spam! So I phoned careerbuilder, and I told them that I want all my information deleted from their site. The woman verified that my resume was no longer on the site, and when I logged onto careerbuilder, it showed that my resume had been deleted.
I know this spam is the result of my e-mail being on my resume, which was on Careerbuilder.com, for several reasons:
No. 1: Oftentimes, the sender's address has "careerbuilder" in it. I know these aren't legitimately from the careerbuilder.com site because NONE of these job offers are ever addressed to me by name.
No. 2: The job offers are NEVER related to what's on my resume. In fact, the offers have absolutely no relevance whatsoever to writing or journalism. And most sound like money-stealing schemes.
No. 3: These strange job offers keep showing up in the e-mail "in" box of the very same e-mail that's on my resume. I have numerous sub-accounts, and only this particular sub-account keeps getting these stupid job offers.
No. 4: Sometimes, something in the body copy of the message mentions careerbuilder, but again, these messages never address me by name.
I have never received a freelance editorial offer as a result of my resume being on careerbuilder.com. So, I don't know just who searches this site, but apparently, entities in search of writers and editors never go near it.
Having being totally fed up with the careerbuilder.com's site's inability to keep e-mail information protected (and I'm sure there has got to be a way to do this; for Pete's sake, we have the technology to put a man on the moon. You mean the Web designer can't figure out a way to keep spammers from getting e-mails off of resumes? The setup on the careerbuilder site is very loose and weak, for lack of better terms), I finally deleted my resume from the system.
Like that was really going to make a difference! I continued to get the spam! So I phoned careerbuilder, and I told them that I want all my information deleted from their site. The woman verified that my resume was no longer on the site, and when I logged onto careerbuilder, it showed that my resume had been deleted.
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Posted on 09/09/2008 at 7:09:15 PM