AppleOne

- Mark - December 11, 2010

I applied at Apple One after I heard that City of Berkeley had it on their list as a recommended temp firm that assigns people to work in the City to eventually become permanent positions. I had a job there for a while working for local state government and was let go after a mear 3 days on the job. They told my staffing agency that I "didn't fit in" although they had already shown me through every security gate as well as showing me where there were no guards to the building. This is a pretty haphazard way of going about things especially when security is involved in a State building. They let me go with no solid reason and all I did was state to the place I was working at that I was saving up money for dental and I would get tired so during lunch time I would relax. Anyway all I have learned from this experience is to avoid Apple One. It was an apalling experience. I will state below what else I noticed about this temp agency. Feel free to regard it as off topic, but I found that it was WEIRD and unprofessional: There's a large Black man that does recruiting there (at least when I went) and he has long grown finger nails like a woman would have. It was nasty. I got this sense that he had some other issues going on. I forgot if they were manicured or painted by now, but it was just strange. What ever happened to being professional? I guess you won't find it at a temp agency. These places live on the fact that there is a never ending supply of youth coming in for jobs which they can push around. Some day, temping will be a thing of the past though. With the internet prevelant for job finding, who would really need a temp staffing service? There's literally millions of people seeking jobs on the internet and can get direct hire without going through such oddities as Apple One. If any job location is reading this, do yourself and your fellow Americans a favor and do direct hire. Temp agencies are the scum of the earth.

- Laurie - April 1, 2009

I agree with anonymous. 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. Join at: tempagencylawsuit.blogspot.com.

- anonymous - December 12, 2007

Congratulations to you!! Unfortunately this is not the norm for AppleOne. 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)…

- Monique - October 25, 2007

I was hired by a government agency in less than 3 months after I applied, and I moved up to a higher position quickly.