CareerBuilder Reviews

Pros

•Great benefits
•they don't micromanage - allow you to run your "own business"
•education opportunities
•learn a lot about business to take elsewhere (some transferable skills)

Cons

•low salary
•no room for advancement in Norcross location
•low morale
•they want you to leave after 2 years of employment

Pros

good brand and good products, nice collegues

Cons

lack of methods and organization

Advice to Senior Management

more clear evidence of what the managment is doing

Pros

if you are a sales champion this company will reward you and your upward mobility is endless. The entire culture is sales focused.

Cons

The depth of knowledge outside of sales is limited. Thus you really have very little support when selling new products and services.

Pros

Great place to work, people, opportunities, leadership, mentoring, and overall strength of the organization are all wonderful. I would recommend this organization to every person I know.

Cons

Sales equals Stressful. Although the company is incredible, sales isn't for everyone. It's face pace, highly competitive, but very very rewarding if you perform up to job requirements.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you are doing. I've had the chance to meet a lot of our executives and I am deeply impressed with each and everyone of them.

Pros

First, this job isn't for you if you have issues taking initiative, want to work a 9 to 5, or if you don't handle constant deadlines. I've seen some reviews of people saying the compensation sucks if you don't hit your number...I hate to break it to you, but that's how sales works. Take away the quota, it's hard to get people to work hard enough to hit numbers and grow business.

Sales isn't a joke, and the reason this company is successful rests on the sales teams.

1. The benefits are fantastic.
2. The compensation plan is the best I've seen in sales--tell me where you can earn an extra $50k on top of your base in an ENTRY LEVEL sales job.
3. Lot's of room for growth--been promoted 3 times in 12 months. You do your job, you move up.
4. Tons of development. Managers are committed to training and improving their staff.

Cons

1. This job takes more than 40 hours per week to be successful
2. There are some sales people at the company that need to go--they're negative and they haven't hit their number in over a year. They're a cancer to the people around them. Management is sometimes too hesitant to let people go.

Pros

If you want to learn more about the online job board business

If you enjoy hitting stats like number of calls over any measure of quality of work.

Cons

I can't say its like this everywhere as CB has branches all over the country but I met enough branch managers to say its probably similar in many as its a cultural thing. CB could be a great place but unfortunately they have adopted a model of churn and burn. Your success as a sales person will mostly be driven by luck. They will give you a book of accounts, in my case 8, and your expected to grow the business there. In several of my accounts, previous reps had really upset the clients to the point of pulling their business, yet i was expected to grow it overnight??? if not, no big deal, fire that person and hire another.

There idea of a sales model, is make a 100 phone calls. The issue of quality rarely comes up, phone stats only matter.

Its why turnover is so high. I was let go, no surprise there but they didn't even give two weeks pay or benefits. I worked for much smaller companies that recognize people have families. I understand the economy was tough and all but they showed a total lack of caring....

Advice to Senior Management

If your going to declare you want to hire "consultative sales professionals" don't throw them into an environment for kids in their first job. Teach managers to engage their people, not berate them... You have some good people but your in a commodity space and clients basically hate you, you need to fix that!

Pros

The reps who exceed quota get rewarded. The reps who are constantly below their numbers should re-evaluate their career choice. CareerBuilder is not a place for folks to come and collect a paycheck. You are expected to work hard and constantly manage your book of business. If you are able to do this - you will be rewarded financially and get public recognition.

Cons

Long hours and you are constantly working - much like any other sales job.
Extensive travel

Pros

- Fun
- Never Boring
- Everyone is focused and the focus comes from the top
- A lot of freedom on how I do my job
- They test an area before they throw too much money at it.
- Focus on Leadership, not Management at the upper levels is very good
- They do employee surveys and actually make changes from them

Cons

- Communication could be better
- Change comes quickly. You have to get used to that.
- Early leadership training is needed for anyone becoming a Team Lead or Manager
- The sales area is brutal but the potential to be very young and make a lot of money is there

Advice to Senior Management

Train young leaders. No one should become a Team Lead or anything higher without a class.

Pros

Benefits, training, learning & development, compensation structure and opportunity to make your own career path. If you want to stay in direct sales the whole time, that's OK...if you want to fast track to management, you're supported as well. Conversely, if you're not happy where you are but doing the work, leadership will help find a position that's more suited to your talents...at least the good ones will.

Cons

A lot of Director & Sr. Management roles were given out in the past just based on tenure and whether or not someone "fit the mold" of the coveted "Boys Club" that ran rampant for many years. Since the economic downturn, it's gotten much better but I still think there are Managers & Directors that shouldn't be in their positions. This creates disdain for the people that have done the work, asked for the promotions and been bypassed by someone else just because of friendship status or (as mentioned above) company tenure.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to listen to your employees and what they're asking for, along with what customers are asking for too.

Pros

-They have a great compensation plan
-Fun place to work

Cons

-The job is not for everyone, but the right type of person can make it far