Jobvite
reviews and complaints

I was signed up for Jobvite and must say that I'm not a fan of this service. Jobvite is an average website and it is very less percent you'll find any good deal here. Anyway, my main problem was spam. I received a lot of spam messages from Jobvite. I tried to unsubscribe but couldn't do that, so I contacted their support and asked for help. They assured me I will not be getting any spam. Yes, right. I bet they did nothing, because spam messages were coming! Terrible site and horrible support!

I normally let it go and am not bothered by ''reject letters'' after submitting my resume, but when I received a (below) response from Jobvite, I could not stop shaking my head in disbelief. I was more than qualified for the position I had applied, and I have the precise experience and requirements listed for the job so I knew something was whack.

The ''reject form letter'' from the Jobvite Recruiting staff:
Thanks for sharing your background and for your interest in ''Company XYZ'".. Our team has reviewed your resume and we have decided to pursue other candidates who fit our requirements more precisely. If you have applied for another opening at XYZ, your application will be considered separately.

My response:
Dear Jobvite,
Thanks for sharing your inadequate and highly flawed background with me. Your lack of interest in hiring qualified candidates is appalling and contemptuous to say the least. My team has reviewed your lame-a$$, good-for-nothing company and have decided to pursue other employers who fit our requirements more precisely.

If I am prompted to apply for another opening via Jobvite, I will not waste my time submitting an application. I consider you as a whole group of impertinent, detestable creatures unsuitable and incapable of reading anything other than the numbers on your fraudulent pay check.

If by chance you actually (were able) to read this far, good luck to you and your worthless job.

I have had no luck getting employment through Jobvites. It's just a way to further distance the prospective employee from prospective employees. Some of the jobs even just change their status to "Not Selected" without reviewing one's qualifications. I guess if you don't "network" well enough, that happens to you.

Jobvite has been a very negative experience for my company. We had high hopes initially - the social graph is a very valuable asset for companies these days. The first problem was the interface - a bit bulky, and lacking key features that make workflow management unpleasant (file types, no bulk uploads, etc) not to mention rampant privacy issues. It seemed worth it against the promise of tapping active and passive candidates through the social network...

That is until a few months went by and our employees experienced spam reports from their own networks. Jobvite basically broadcasts your position openings as status updates in your employees' social networks. Our settings were fairly conservative - with weekly or monthly recurrence as standard. We eventually had to stop using it as we received increasingly negative feedback from the people in our networks.

At three months into our service contract, we asked Jobvite for an early termination for cause but were denied. For the next 9 months, my only interaction with Jobvite was on my A/P report and it's negative impact on my bottom line. Sadly, after the better part of a year without so much as a login, we missed the termination cutoff at which time they automatically renewed our contract for another year. We called them about this to explain the situation and its impact on our cashflow, but again they wouldn't budge.

This company sucks, applies insidious discrimination techniques at best. Also does not respect privacy at all, tracks applicants in inappropriate ways, keeps data even after asking for it to be removed, et cetera. If you were denied a job via jobvite, you should report it to the EEOC for discrimination and the FTC for privacy violations. If enough people complain these agencies will take appropriate actions.