Apple One Employment Svc

- Laurie - April 1, 2009

I agree with anonymous and appleone chump. The same thing happens at AppleOne in California. I believe most of their job ads are fake and I've started a blog to collect names of people who want to initiate a class action lawsuit against them. It's at tempagencylawsuit.blogspot.com.

- AppleOne Chump - October 31, 2008

I live in San Diego and find the local AppleOne team here to be a waste of time. I am a college grad, (Marketing major) working on a MBA from a very prestigious school. I'm have advanced-to-expert level skill sets on most of the commonly used business software to include Microsoft, SAP and Oracle. Short story long, I'm not exactly an idiot. And yes, I do dress professionally for ALL interviews. I went to Apple because they had an enormous amount of jobs posted on Hotjobs. I called them up and was told they, "Can't fill them fast enough! Come on over and register." I went and registered the next day and that process took HOURS. Tests, (I knocked all of them out of the park) filling out this form and that form, watching some stupid videos that insult anyone with any common sense, etc. When it was FINALLY over, I got to talk to a recruiter. First she grilled me about what other temp assignments I'd been on, which agency got them for me, who did I report to on the assignment, his title, etc. I was very uncomfortable answering these questions, felt they had no relevance, and frankly, were none of her biz. So after the interrogation she tells me I have great skills and as soon as something opens I'll get a call. I was taken aback; what do you mean when something opens? Just yesterday I was told you couldn't fill all the positions you have. She said, those positions had all been filled between yesterday and the time it took me to finish the application process. I was ON FIRE!!! Not only has she lied to me, she's playing for a chump; like I'm some moron you can just tell any old thing and I will believe it. But I held my tongue and thanked her for her time. I called AppleOne once a week for two months...I got nothing from them. In fact, if I didn't catch her at her desk, I wouldn't hear from her at all because she NEVER responded to voice mail. Eventually I went to a smaller, boutique temp agency and they immediately sent me out on interviews. On the the third one, I was offered a temp-to-perm job. Six months later, I still call AppleOne, pretty much just to mess with them, to ask if they have anything. When I am able to reach a recruiter (the one who signed me up is long-gone) I'm told "Nothing yet, but we have you on file." Out of curiosity, I called my old boss from my other temp agency and he told me that AppleOne had been blowing up his phone trying to get in to see him; I told him don't let them and apologized for giving out his contact info. AppleOne is a waste of time. Don't go there because in my experience, they are LIARS!!!!

- anonymous - August 23, 2008

thanks for the advice

- WT - June 19, 2008

Thank you for the heads up. I have had a similar experience with AppleOne. I went to one of their agency locations and as a successful business professional with a little bit of HR experience, I found it a joke. This confirms it. Thank you so much!

- anonymous - December 12, 2007

JOB SEEKERS BEWARE - NEW CLIENTS BEWARE - I am a former employee of AppleOne in Houston. In fact, I was one of their "recruiters" that was supposed to place people that were looking for "real jobs" by trusting what the seen on Monster.com and many other various job boards to be a real job! I only worked there for a few months and then I had to move on to an ethical company and a place where I felt comfortable in working at. About 60% to 75% of AppleOne's jobs are what they call "GHOST ADS." These are ad's of FASLE jobs which are jobs that don't exists. Bernie Howroyd is the owner of AppleOne and all it's subsidiaries - and this man is a genius at SCREWING the trusting people really needing a job. He has operated this company to have his branches post Ghost Ad's to only get applicants in his doors throughout the country just in order to gather YOUR leads – or the information you know about other companies or companies you’ve worked for in the present or past. What I mean is he wants to know where you worked in the past, who you reported to, did you go through an agency, if so which one, who was the inside contact who worked with the competitor agency of AppleOne and all their contact numbers. This allows his branches to now have a "warm lead." Now his recruiters a/k/a Account Executives are able to call into a company or potentially a new client for AppleOne with all the information they need to make their sales call. AppleOne USES YOU TO GROW THEIR BUSINESS NOT GET YOU A JOB!! For those of you who have "registered" with them, you want to know why they ask you so many questions about your past jobs, who you reported to, who your boss reported to, and what your friends and family does for a job?? You guessed it! They are USING YOU FOR YOUR INFORMATION to further their cause in order to get a new client - NOT TO GET YOU A JOB!! Ok, so you ask, if they are getting so many clients by the information you supply them then why can’t they still place you in a job?? Do you research about the staffing industry. It is a very competitive and cut throat industry with loads of turnover and terminating business relationships for the next best agency or the one that does not charge as high of a margin. The problem is they are flooded with applicants that register with them that does not keep up with the actual amount of real jobs they have. I’m speaking from personal experience. About every 15 to 20 people I registered with AppleOne, maybe 1 of those would actually get placed. In my office of 7 Account Executives (AE’s)/Recruiters, we only had about 10 to 15 REAL JOBS open at any given week. However, if you were to do your research on all the job boards they are posting on you would probably think they would have at least 35 to 40 jobs available out of each branch. What sucks about this is the company requires it’s AE’s to have at LEAST 5 JOB POSTINGS PER AE. So if the branch you visit has 5 AE’s, than you should have at least 25 jobs posted and maybe 8 to 10 of those are real jobs – or if the office as 10 AE’s there should be at least 50 postings (again at least 60+ of those are Ghost Jobs). I hate AppleOne and AppleOne Sucks!! They lie to their employees about everything, and most tragically they lie to those who register with them. I think anyone personally who works for AppleOne lacks character and the basic level of ethics in order to represent this company. This is why I left and why I post my opinion and commentary about this JOKE of a company. Do yourself a favor, approach with caution, be prepared to spend around 2 hours in their branch taking test, filling out paperwork, interviewing with an AE only to be interrogated for information they want to know to get into companies you use to work for in order to help themselves and not you gaining themselves a new client – NOT YOU A NEW JOB! There are 3 branches in the Houston, TX market, and I would not recommend NOT ONE of them. All the branch managers there are unethical and nothing but back biting dogs against each other in their branches b/c they compete against each other and most frankly – this company posses no character, integrity or honestly. Their story sounds good – they are the largest privately owned staffing agency in the nation and almost a billion dollar company with over 300 locations nationwide… Like I said, Bernie the owner, he is a genius with the business model of AppleOne and how he in my opinion exploits employees and applicants that has only made him a fat, disgusting, British Billionaire who came to America b/c he couldn’t do this in his own country. – “Love.” (That’s Bernie’s trademark salutation)…