profile updated Apr 15, 2008, 1:42 PM
CareerBuilder.com is the largest career site in North America in terms of traffic and revenue. It has more than 23 million unique visitors per month, a resume database of 26 million, and 1.6 million jobs from more than 300,000 employers.
Owned by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI), Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB), The McClatchy Company (NYSE:MNI), and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), the company offers a vast online and print network to help jobseekers connect with employers.
CareerBuilder.com powers the career centers for more than 1,200 partners, including 140 newspapers such as USA Today and The Los Angeles Times; and leading portals such as America Online and MSN. It also powers more than 170 television and radio broadcast sites. CareerBuilder.com and its subsidiaries operate in the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Asia.
As CareerBuilder has grown in size, it has given recruiters and job seekers better tools to help sort through the rapidly expanding numbers of jobs and resumes available. In addition to the standard job board tools, its product offerings include:
·SmartJob - where CareerBuilder automatically matches and sends up to 25 prime candidates to the employers based on the exact requirements of the job.
·Cross-posting to up to 250 niche job boards.
·Diversity tools.
·Career fairs.
·Search engine optimization.
·Employer branding services.
·Videos for employer branding and/or individual job postings.
·Direct email campaigns, based on job category, region, keyword, or a combination.
·Job matching applications on Facebook. Users who add the CareerBuilder applications to their Facebook profiles receive continuously updated job and internship listings that are aligned with the information found in their profiles. Users can apply to positions directly or access a link to search for more jobs on the CareerBuilder.com website.
· Personified: a talent management consulting subsidiary firm. Launched in Jan. 2008, Personified offers multiple services including: employee acquisition and retention; recruitment process outsourcing; employment branding; inclusive culture development; and employee engagement.
News & Updates 
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Status Quo Hiring Predicted for Third Quarter Says CareerBuilder Survey (Company PR)
The latest quarterly job forecast from CareerBuilder.com and USA TODAY points to a continued, gradual downshift in job creation as businesses grapple with the effects of subpar economic growth, escalating oil prices, the credit collapse and timid consumer spending. Jul 1, 2008, 11:19 AM -
Monster Extends Video Branding To Its Sites Worldwide (ERE)
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CareerBuilder Launches Norwegian Job Board (PRNewswire)
CareerBuilder has launched a Norwegian job board in partnership with its Swedish subsidiary, Jobbguiden.se. As part of the launch, CareerBuilder.no and MSN announced a strategic alliance that makes CareerBuilder.no the exclusive job search engine and content provider for the MSN Careers channel in Norway through 2013.
CareerBuilder bought Jobbguiden.se last year, about the same time Microsoft, which owns MSN, acquired a part interest in CareerBuilder.
Jun 4, 2008, 2:16 PM -
Half The Working Moms Would Trade Pay For Family (Company PR)
CareerBuilder survey finds 47 percent of working mothers would take a pay cut to spend more time with the kids and a third would sacrifice 10 percent of their salary.
May 9, 2008, 12:32 PM -
Monster Profits Slide As CEO Promises A More Aggressive Future (ere)
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Monster Partners With MSNBC In Traffic Deal (ere)
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Career Sites Fail Job Seekers (New York Times)
A study by Forrester Research released this week reported the majority of online job sites failed to pass usability and performance tests. Apr 9, 2008, 8:13 PM -
CareerBuilder, Facebook in job ads venture (Reuters)
Internet jobs site CareerBuilder.com is teaming up with Facebook to help clients run job recruiting campaigns within the online social network, the two companies said on Monday. Specialized recruiting ads will promote CareerBuilder and employers' sections within Facebook, with the aim of attracting potential hires who may be hard to reach via traditional methods like newspaper help-wanted ads. Apr 1, 2008, 2:15 PM -
CareerBuilder is Set to Launch a Big Ad Deal with Facebook (Cheezhead)
Does CareerBuilder have some kind of deal with Facebook? Joel Chessman says it does. Mar 21, 2008, 11:44 AM -
The Job Site for ‘$100k+ People’: Avoid the Commoners (Workforce Management)
Fee-based TheLadders.com takes shots at ‘cluttered’ CareerBuilder and Monster in a new advertising campaign created by the Fallon advertising agency. Mar 21, 2008, 11:42 AM
Products & Services
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CareerBuilder
Full suite of products and services including job posting, resume database search, applicant sourcing, applicant screening, employer branding, cross-posting, video, email newsletter advertising, etc. Single job postings and multi-packs are self-service starting at $419 and going as low as $176 in bulk. Annual contracts are offered for larger companies with high volume hiring. -
Personified
Full-scale consulting company offering services for recruitment process outsourcing, talent acquisition, employment branding, workforce culture/diversity, employee engagement and employee training.