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in North America, and 2,500 full-time employees. AppleOne declares it earned a half-billion dollars in business revenues last year from its 70,000 company clients.

In addition to job placement, AppleOne offers a large variety of services to both employers and job seekers, including specialized recruiting in many professional fields, resume preparation, office and small business set-ups, temp placement and training programs. Many of the on-line services, training and research for job seekers are free.

Still grumpy about my own experiences with employment agencies, I looked for online opinions about the current workings of AppleOne. Of course, the official company websites and ads extol the wonderful and many services offered, along with individual customer endorsements, and they do look impressive. Many opinions are posted on other sites by individuals, critiques based on personal experiences, some negative and some positive. Those who complain seem to echo the same opinions I formed many years ago. The most frequent was that branch office AppleOne employees don't really care about the qualifications and experience of their job-seeker clients, and just go through the motions to get as many warm bodies signed up as possible. This sounds too much like my old meat market analogy.

Therefore, here's my advice to job seekers, as well as to employers looking for good recruits. It is OK if you want to deal with a legitimate agency system such as AppleOne, but at the same time, apply your own initiative and energy to get out and make things happen.

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