Response:
Dear Scrub,

Thank you for contacting CareerBuilder.com. We apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced while using our job search system, and we appreciate you bringing this to our attention. It is unfeasible for us to screen all job postings as they are submitted to our site, due to the cost of such a process and the time delay it would impose on our new postings. An automated system, no matter how advanced, would be prone to mistaken rejections and invalid approvals. For such a screening system to work, it would also have to approve all edits made to job postings. With over 400,000 active jobs, we cannot guarantee that every job that appears on our site will meet our house rules.

That being said, we do hold our job posters to the very high standards set in our Terms and Conditions. When a job that possibly violates our Terms and Conditions is brought to our attention, we immediately investigate the allegation and take action to remedy the situation. If the job is deemed to be in violation, we will take action, including, but not limited to, terminating the job posting as soon as evidence of the violation can be obtained.

For legal reasons, we must have evidence of the violation on record before we can take action against any paid job posting. It is our commitment to our users that we provide as many jobs that match our users' interests as quickly as possible. For this reason, we provide real-time updates to our database whenever a job is added, edited or removed. We strive to provide only the best possible experience, and never participate in any practices involving the selling of our user list in any way. For more information about our Terms and Conditions or our user Privacy Policy, please see the referenced web pages below.

Terms and Conditions
http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Info/HHTerms.htm Privacy Policy
http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Info/Privacy.htm

Thank you for your continued patience. In the meantime, there is a way to prevent certain companies' jobs from appearing in search results. For instance, if you were looking for administrative jobs but didn't want jobs from the "Acme" corporation, you would put this in the keyword field: Administrative -Acme. This will run a search with all the criteria and other keywords you specify, but adding the "-Acme" phrase to your keywords will eliminate any job listings that contain the word "Acme". Keep in mind that there is no spacing between "-" and the name of the company.

If you have any additional questions or comments, please let us know! We are available by email at or Monday through Friday and 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm Saturday and Sunday (Eastern Time). Good luck with your search!

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Sincerely,

Kristen Gaither
Customer Service Representative
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