I don't think you can get rid of the recommend, i agree that part is quite annoying. what's cool is the emails with similar jobs and skills, called career builders you receive as well, i applied to a job yesterday through it! with the distance and stuff, its weird, everytime i need to change it i can't do it on screen, i would have to click on jobs at the top again and then start my search all over, that way it doesnt appear to be buggy. i have seen vacancies out of say 5miles, but its quite rare on mine only when i do it the way described above. if i dont, i end up with thousands of more vacancies from all over the country!