CareerBuilder Reviews in Chicago, IL Area

Pros

Careerbuilder is a great place to really develop your skills and launch your career. Ive had nothing but encouraging managers.

Cons

Salary is equal to or slightly less than other businesses.

Pros

There are some great people working there

Cons

There is a lot of young people at the organization with little experience

Advice to Senior Management

They are doing a good job, but I think they should try and talk to everyone not just the management team.

Pros

Benefits
Upward Mobility
Competitive advantage over rest of industry
Somewhat international
C Level Execs are some of the best - especially Matt Ferguson

Cons

Comp for non-sales could be higher
Non-sales people could help build multi-million dollar revenue streams but aren't rewarded the same financially as the people who sell it
Culture is a pro and a con at times
Personal grudges can be held

Advice to Senior Management

Leaders are important but middle-management and individual contributors are the ones who deliver and do whatever is asked. More needs to be shown to them, especially on the product side.

Pros

- Young Company
- Growing Company

Lots of energy. Lots to learn.

Cons

- Young Company
- Growing Company

Because of this, management was given to those who are great sales people rather then great leaders. These were people who were drinking the CB juice and had absolutely no experience anywhere else. They're only way to teach was to show how they were sucessful two years back in another economy. Management were not people you could expect to learn from.

Advice to Senior Management

Matt and Brent were the backbone of the company. They were smart. They were innovative. They liked their job. Everyone else just ran around yelling at you to do whatever was the new trick of the day.

Pros

CB provides top notch benefits, great yearly trips for all employee's and salaries are very competitive generous. Moving internally is relatively easy, upper management is very transparent and approachable.

Cons

Its an extremely high pressure cut through atmosphere in the sales groups. I'd only recommend pursuing a career here if you are in any other group other than inside sales.

Pros

compensation package- If you are performing you will make great money

Cons

Changes occur at the speed of light

Advice to Senior Management

a great sales person does not necessarily make a great manager

Pros

* You can build your career with hard work
* Do your job, do it right and you gain respect in the industry
* The sky is the limit (if you want to aim low)

Cons

The only downside is if you are not fit for this industry you are going to drown. It is fast paced and you get paid in accordance to how hard you work. I have seen many salespeople come in thinking that it is going to be an easy ride, that all they have to do is pick up the phone and the money just comes jumping out at you. Well, if you dont know how to create business relationships and know how to handle people hanging up on you, well, you may be a better fit in some paint department at a local hardware store.

Advice to Senior Management

Eyes and Ears

Pros

great product, great sales training. They want to teach you how to sell. This is a great first sales job and gives you the ability to move from inside to outside.

Cons

Many times the expectations of Sr. Management are not aligned with the world outside of Careerbuilder. Quota are huge and the amount of products that can be sold are crazy. You can not keep things straight. Management also very much has a group think mentality, which can be good and bad.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on one product at a time and spend more time perfecting it before you have the sales force sell it.

Pros

growing company, new products monthly, innovation driven

Cons

training lags behind new products

Advice to Senior Management

Change compensation plan to adjust to soultions

Pros

Collegial atmosphere
Great Benefits
Encouragement of continuing education

Cons

Poor pay
Micromanagement
Boiler room atmosphere in sales

Advice to Senior Management

None. Most people are pretty happy with Careerbuilder. Those that aren't satisfied with the company usually leave for better money elsewhere.