When they say companies, they're probably referring to how within 48 hours of updating your resume, every time you update your resume, you'll be contacted by at least two separate recruiters just from Farmers Insurance. I have no sales experience on my resume, I express no interest in sales either on my resume or via the "pick your preferred areas" functions, and still...

It's like being a woman on a singles site. You post a profile and photo, say you want a tall man, no kids, under 30, and the first three letters you get are from 40+ year old single dads, all under 5'6".

You wish the singles site would prevent these people from contacting you, but that's more work than they want to do, and these guys are paying membership fees.

Getting letters you don't want, be they from companies you'd never work for in a million years or people you'd never date in a million years, are pretty much a known cost of doing business on these sites. But people can still complain about it... and they will.

Me, I'm just boycotting Farmers Insurance. Not only won't I work for them, but their abuse of CareerBuilder and Monster ensures I'll never be their customer either.

Just think...what is "careerbuilder's" job? It's to "connect your resume and other info to people out there LOOKING for people looking-for-a-job like you". And they have done it. Maybe some of the people "looking for unemployed people" out there were not nice...yes...but "careerbuilder" DID do their job......

Secondly, I would not blame "companies". As someone who has experience...I do not believe that "BNR" is really a "company". A smart "company" would not operate as BNR has done. It just wouldn't be good business. "BNR", to me, is probably some huckster, operating out of some basement. An individual...just after some fast cash.

Such a shame....it gives EVERYONE a bad rap. Especially after looking over this blog.

Just my $0.02.

Curtis

A big thanks to you. Thanks to you and people like you who want to make things better for everyone and pass your knowledge along to stop people from getting sucked in to these types of scams.

Barry Pausinger

I advise that any would-be Careerbuilders make sure to sign up with an alternate email address or use some bacn management system.

Thanks so much for this information. When I search for BNR Ntl. I stumbled across your posting first. What a time saver. Being unemployed is frustrating and stressful enough with out all this crap flooding your email.

I agree with Tim up there, you go to Monster and Career Builder and all you get is time consuming garbage in you email. And you waste precious time sorting it through it all in search of something real. Those sights are worthless and leave you feeling a little hopeless during these very poor economical times.

Thanks for your insight and God Bless,

Wendy

I clicked on one of the so-called positions and an application popped up. I didn't enter any information and just clicked the "Submit" button. The next screen said, "Thank you for submitting...etc." I know for a fact that my information was retrieved from careerbuilder.com, because that was the only site I applied to. Now I get all sorts of emails wanting me to sell secondary insurance...YUCK!!! Though careerbuilder's job postings are mostly legitimate, registering with careerbuilder.com comes with a price. I do have a question about unsubscribing. Does your email actually get unsubscribed or sold to another company to send you further irritating emails?