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Index › Products › CareerBuilder · October 2026 Edition
2 categories · Ranked

CareerBuilder

29Judge labels
0First choices
25Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Job advertising for mid-market buyers
Rank 111 of 111 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 82% of its 11 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of CareerBuilder →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In job advertising · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named CareerBuilder for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Job advertising and distributionTalent acquisition0%111 of 11182%11criticized challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Recruitment marketing and career sitesTalent acquisition0%84 of 104100%1under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 23%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

Since September 2026, CareerBuilder held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.

Best category · Job advertising · by segment

Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 92 → 96 of 97
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 102 → 103 of 103
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 65 → 86 of 89

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
Job advertising0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 102 → 111 of 111
Recruitment marketing0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 84 of 104, unchanged

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated CareerBuilder across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500011
GPT-5.4 mini00101
Gemini 3.5 Flash00011
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast01012
Mistral Small00011
DeepSeek V4 Flash00022
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00011
Kimi K200022
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500011
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative8 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative21 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative29 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Stick to vetted alternatives: ... Monster, CareerBuilder” Grok 4.1 Fast · Job advertising · negative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“CareerBuilder specifically called "misleading and fraudulent" by some reviewers” Kimi K2 · Job advertising · negative prompt · hard negative
“Their conversion rates are often low, and they function more like bulletin boards than relationship-building platforms.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Recruitment marketing · negative prompt · soft negative
“scammers post fake job listings on real job boards like Indeed, LinkedIn, Monster, Glassdoor, and CareerBuilder” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Job advertising · negative prompt · soft negative
“they currently carry some platform risk until their web traffic and resume databases fully stabilize” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Job advertising · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as CareerBuilder, over the 29 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CareerBuilder was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Monster27 of 290Not among the top eight
Indeed26 of 297Not among the top eight
LinkedIn Jobs21 of 294Not among the top eight
ZipRecruiter19 of 291Not among the top eight
Glassdoor13 of 290Not among the top eight
Google for Jobs10 of 292Not among the top eight
Appcast9 of 292Not among the top eight
Craigslist9 of 290Not among the top eight
Joveo8 of 293Not among the top eight
Dice8 of 290Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named CareerBuilder. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 28 of the 29 answers that named CareerBuilder and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com12
noon.ai12
firsthr.app11
linkedin.com11
bestjobsearchapps.com8
hr-ai-index.com7
hrtechsaas.com6
pin.com6
totaldefense.com6
ziprecruiter.com6

Eighty-five of the eighty-five domain citations in answers naming CareerBuilder came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

careerbuilder.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, CareerBuilder takes 0% of first choices and JobTarget takes 23%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “job advertising platforms”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “programmatic job advertising platform”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
40,500 a month (“careerbuilder”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
335 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 732,023 a month
Searches its site ranks for
132,084 · 621 in the top three
Sites linking to it
36,982
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 111 of 111 in job advertising
Segment leader
23%
JobTarget
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
29 answers
Its own site cited
in 28 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on careerbuilder.com
9
subdomains included
Content
3
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
0 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Report or ebook2undated
Template or tool1undated
How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page careerbuilder.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.

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The company

CareerBuilder is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Find your next job with CareerBuilder.
For
job seekers and employers
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What CareerBuilder's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: careerbuilder.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when CareerBuilder's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as CareerBuilder, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for CareerBuilder by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where CareerBuilder is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name CareerBuilder, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
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A verification link goes to your work email; an address at careerbuilder.com is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.