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Alliance of Professionals & Consultants, Inc.

APC is an award-winning company in operation since 1993. Our focus is helping our clients to get the right people doing the right work at the right time. We deliver services through a suite of Professional Services offerings, and our Professional Staffing team provides top talent in IT, data analytics, engineering, and marketing / general business.

Headquartered in Raleigh, NC, APC is a Native-American-owned company with offices throughout the US that support Professionals deployed on Client engagements in over 40 states, and internationally.

ABOUT APC - WHO WE ARE

At APC, we are real people who enjoy making a real difference in the communities where we live and work. Not only have we received Business Journals Best Places To Work award several years running but we also strive to be the very best at what we do. We have also been fortunate to be recognized by the US Department of Commerce, with APC founder Roy Roberts receiving the award at The White House.

OUR MOTTO

Our motto has always been, “Professionals serving Professionals” ®, and we live our values every day. At APC, we are big enough to meet the needs of world-class organizations, yet we value face-to-face and personal interactions. Our clients and candidates get the benefits of a global corporation with the personalization of a boutique firm. From day one, APC’s vision has been to positively impact the lives of our employees and to be a strategic, trusted partner to our clients. We are fortunate to see that manifested each day as we put people to work doing what they love to do.

" It’s important to see people as people. Don’t think of them as units or treat them as dollar signs; If you treat them professionally, they will become more like the professionals they need to be. "

OUR VALUES

Since 1993, when APC was founded, the company has remained committed to the same cornerstones that have anchored our success and that of our professionals and clients – solid ethics, unwavering integrity, open sharing, empathetic caring, and a constant focus on quality and excellence. It is upon this foundation that our values are built and exemplified through our employees.

DO WHAT'S RIGHT. ALWAYS

MAKE IT HAPPEN

BE OF SERVICE

OUR PURPOSE

We positively impact the lives of our professionals, clients, and communities.

APC has been recognized for the quality of our professionals, client service, and business growth. Since 1993, a dedication to core values, excellence, our professionals, and our clients has helped APC achieve a variety of industry-leading awards and appear in numerous news articles and press releases.

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OUR CULTURE

APC is a Native American-owned business committed to embracing and promoting diversity, and we aggressively work to improve the economic and social conditions of the minority communities we serve. We believe diversity brings new experiences, ideas, and opportunities that can address service needs and benefit employees, our clients, and our business.

OUR HERITAGE

From the day our company was founded in 1993, APC’s purpose has been to positively impact the lives of our professionals, our clients, and the communities we serve. Our founder, Roy Roberts, knew the importance of giving back and we are proud to continue that work today!

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

At APC, we are real people who enjoy making a real difference in the communities where we live and work. We also strive to be the very best at what we do.

APC has been recognized for the quality of our professionals, corporate client service and business growth. Since 1993, a dedication to core values, excellence, our professionals and our clients has helped APC achieve a variety of industry-leading awards and appear in numerous news articles and press releases.

We have also been fortunate to be recognized by the US Department of Commerce, with APC founder Roy Roberts receiving the award at The White House.

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From Basement Startup to Global Recognition

Like so many great companies, Alliance of Professionals & Consultants (APC) traces its roots to a humble basement. In 1993, APC founder Roy Roberts started his company from home, using his pool table to sort payroll.

The company quickly took off, and what began as a humble, home-based company has grown into a global powerhouse. But one thing hasn’t changed – our values.

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Roy Roberts, 1945-2018

As a seven-year-old boy, Roy Roberts worked on a farm, packaging young tomato plants in damp newspaper to prepare them for sale. Even as a child, he recognized the person with the most education had to do the least hard work and he quickly decided that learning as much as possible would be his path. The choice served him well.

Roy Roberts was an advocate for higher education, as well as entrepreneurship. Roberts used these traits and founded several companies over the years.  At the young age of 48, Roberts retired from IBM and started Alliance of Professionals & Consultants, Inc. (APC). He says his drive came from his mother—she was one of 13 children and was the first in her family to finish high school. Her accomplishment inspired her children, including Roberts, to graduate from college. That tradition endured, and each of Roberts’ five children now has advanced degrees. Roberts also dedicated his time, talents, and gifts to promoting education- such as serving on the Board of Trustees of Brescia University in Kentucky.

Roberts was the chief executive officer of APC for 25 years until his passing in 2018. Roberts sons Troy and Scott now manage APC as the CEO and COO respectively.  After dedicating years to helping others improve their lots in life, Roberts developed a work-life philosophy that he hoped positively impacted everyone within the organizations he created.

APC was founded on these principles and they are ingrained in our company culture still today.

Differentiators

At APC, we pride ourselves on being a unique partner for both our clients and professionals. Below are some key differentiators that set us apart from the rest:

For Job Seekers

Individualized Service & Live Support – When you call any of our APC locations, you’re reaching an in-house expert dedicated to helping you resolve any issues or concerns you may have. In fact, we’ve perfected this level of service so much so that we now provide it as a service offering to our clients! Never hesitate to contact our team for prompt, accurate resolution of HR, accounting, or other employment questions.


Specialized Industry Knowledge – Our recruitment team is highly adept at finding the best talent for our clients and their respective available positions. This can only be accomplished through our recruiters possessing a wealth of industry knowledge and knowing just what it is our clients need. For you, this means our recruiters will be respectful of your time and only share with you positions for which they know you’re strongly qualified.


Award & Recognition Programs – You work hard. And we at APC believe you should be rewarded for it! We have an entire suite of award & recognition programs, including our generous referral program and our Waya Award, which is driven entirely by nominations from our clients. The Waya Award is given quarterly; annually, we send the top performer (and a guest of their choosing) on an all-expenses paid trip!

For Clients

Credibility & Value – Native American owned company, founded in 1993, our client retention is 3X the industry average. APC is a trusted core supplier to many Fortune 500 firms, such as IBM. IBM hiring manager surveys consistently show 90+% client satisfaction with APC.


Employee Retention – Our employee turnover is less than 1/2 the industry average – as a result of our best-in-class benefits and support and our employees’ passion for our clients.


Quality & Cost Savings – APC has proven its quality at the national and international level with our ISO Certification, year over year contract renewals & high client satisfaction results. Our relentless focus on process improvement and efficiency drive cost savings and high quality for our clients.


Talent Delivery – APC’s proprietary PACE recruiting methodology employs extensive technical, behavioral, and cultural screening to provide the right candidates to meet the needs of our clients. We maintain an active network of candidates to enable faster identification and selection based on skills, experience and culture.


Risk Abatement – APC isolates our clients from the risk of non-compliance issues. Over the last 20+ years, APC has undergone many governmental and client audits without ever having a single non-compliance finding. APC’s automated onboarding and offboarding systems ensures compliance with the client, the IRS, and Department of Labor.


Management Information – Client managers have on-line access to onboarding status, purchase order utilization, time sheet history, and invoice history for easy verification, internal audits and forecasting.


Strategic Partner – APC’s professionals assume problem ownership, take a results-oriented approach, are strong team players, and provide leadership and state-of-the-art skills to achieve success for our clients.

Diversity & Minority

Diversity Commitment

APC is a Native American-owned business committed to embracing and promoting diversity, and we aggressively work to improve the economic and social conditions of the minority communities we serve. We believe diversity brings new experiences, ideas and opportunities that can address service needs and benefit employees, our clients and our business.

APC is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status.

We extend our commitment to quality minority-owned businesses by engaging them as suppliers and vendors. We provide equal opportunity to qualified minority, gay, disabled, veteran and women-owned (MWBE) businesses. Since 1999 more than 49 percent of our suppliers have been MWBE suppliers and our supplier-retention rate is near 100 percent. APC’s minority business relationships have and continue to bring rewarding, valued services.

Minority Certification

Corporate Plus® is an unprecedented membership program for minority businesses of the highest caliber. This program was created to address corporate member requests for assistance in identifying minority suppliers with the capacity to fulfill national contracts with the quality and financial means required by large global enterprises.

Corporate Plus® members have demonstrated their capacity to execute national contracts for major corporations. A C-level executive nomination is required from national corporate members for this designation, which elevates APC’s profile among other suppliers in the market.

You can learn more about the program here: NMSDC Corporate Plus® Program

APC has earned the designation of Corporate Plus® member of the NMSDC since 2004.

Additional certifications include:

  • Accenture’s Diverse Supplier Development Program (DSDP)
    APC is a graduate of Accenture’s formal, 18-month program, which matches senior Accenture executive mentors with “protégé” companies to help them grow their businesses. The impact of this program is to develop diverse suppliers which strengthens communities by creating more businesses, jobs, and economic growth. You can learn more here: DSDP Overview

 

  • Certified by State of North Carolina
    APC is certified as a Historically Underutilized Business by the State of North Carolina.

 

  • Carolinas Virginia Minority Supplier Development Council (CVMSDC)
    APC is certified as a Native American minority owned business by the CVMSDC.

Supplier Mentor Program

APC is committed to helping American minority suppliers improve their own quality and customer service. Through our Supplier Mentor Program, APC offers a variety of business tools to qualified, minority-owned companies.

  • A 90-page, fact-filled guide created by APC – Best Practices for Business – Becoming a Preferred Supplier
  • On-line training on Tier 2/Supplier performance guidelines
  • Training on compliance with a client’s agreement terms and conditions
  • Training on compliance with a client’s policies and facilities’ rules
  • Audit and feedback on supplier’s performance
  • Frequent presentations on best practices for business at meetings of regional affiliates of the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC)

 

To participate in APC’s Supplier Mentor Program, contact us at info@apcinc.com.

Employee Programs

From the very beginning, our company’s focus has been on positively impacting the lives of others. One way in which we do so is by recognizing the efforts and contributions of our professionals as they positively impact our clients’ respective organizations, as well as APC itself. Here are some ways in which we do so:

Cornerstone Award

Recognizing Everyday Excellence

Cornerstone Award

A cornerstone is the primary foundation upon which great buildings, monuments, and institutions are built; quality, integrity, teamwork, attitude, and excellence are the foundation upon which APC’s success is built.

APC’s Cornerstone Award gives both APC leadership and our client managers the opportunity to acknowledge outstanding work. The Cornerstone Award is given to individuals for whom we receive positive feedback from our client managers, including those who receive nominations for the Waya Award.

The Waya Award

Celebrating Extraordinary Professionals

The Waya Award

The Waya Award is perhaps our most known recognition for professionals. On both a quarterly and annual basis, APC’s Waya Award honors a professional’s contributions and quality service to our client with special acknowledgement for their dedication and exemplary work.

Cherokee for “Wolf,” the Waya is a sacred animal to Native Americans and symbolizes family, teamwork, intelligence, dignity, respect, pride in work, loyalty, and success of a mission. Individuals who receive the Waya Award exemplify what it is to live these traits on a daily basis.

You can learn more about the Waya Award here.

Pass The Bucks

Client Referral Program

Pass The Bucks

While participation is not limited solely to APC professionals, our Pass the Bucks program rewards individuals who help drive business growth for APC through new client referrals. Our employees are one of our best sales resources and the Pass the Bucks program provides a generous monetary award for efforts that lead to new business.

If you’d like to learn more, email hr@apcinc.com.

Refer a Friend

Candidate Referral Program

Refer a Friend

Refer your talented friends or former colleagues to career opportunities at APC and if they get hired, earn up to $600 in referral bonus money for each eligible referral!

Current professionals can submit a referral here.

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From the day our company was founded in 1993, APC’s purpose has been to positively impact the lives of our professionals, our clients, and the communities we serve. Our founder, Roy Roberts, knew the importance of giving back and we are proud to continue that work today!

Our two primary nonprofit partners are Healing Transitions and StepUp Ministry. Both of these wonderful organizations help facilitate and advance the livelihoods of their respective participants through workforce development. APC is proud to partner with both groups to positively impact the lives of the program participants and their families.

Here’s more information about each group and the support that APC provides:

HEALING TRANSITIONS

GREAT BEGINNINGS

APC has a rather unique affiliation to Healing Transitions that started several years ago in a very unexpected way. 

Located just down the street from APC’s headquarters, Healing Transitions is, as their motto states, a place for recovery. Those battling addiction turn to Healing Transitions for a variety of needs. The organization does not turn anyone away from getting assistance, and they particularly focus on making sure these services are available to the under-served, homeless, and uninsured.

Today, APC’s close affiliation with Healing Transitions includes:

APC employee volunteers use their expertise for Healing Transitions participants readying to re-enter the workforce as they near graduation of the 1+ year program by providing them with resume writing assistance & interview coaching.

A bi-weekly computer lab is setup in an APC conference room where soon-to-be program graduates can easily complete online applications with assistance from APC career experts.

Why a pop-up computer lab? Because of the limited bus schedule, program participants going to the public library to use the computers there are unable to get back to the campus for recovery classes & workshops. Space is already at a premium in the Healing Transitions building, so APC’s pop-up lab (created specifically for Healing Transitions) gives the ladies a safe space to complete applications while providing a convenient location that allows them to get back to campus for requisite classes & workshops.

Ongoing paycheck deduction donations allow APC employees & professionals to give towards rideshare service gift cards designated for advanced-level Healing Transitions program participants. These gift cards help get individuals to and from job interviews, along with to and from work for up to two weeks after employment is obtained.

Additionally, an ongoing donation area is located inside the APC office, where employees know they can easily drop off supplies intended for Healing Transitions. A monthly supply focus is posted on an employee bulletin board to highlight current needs, should APC employees happen to have that specific item they can donate.

We also partner with our vendors whenever possible to provide further assistance. For example, APC holds corporate off-site meetings and hosts guests at a couple of hotels in the area. These hotels have generously agreed to donate their gently used pillows at year-end to supply Healing Transitions with an abundance of that much-needed item.

STEPUP MINISTRY

APC has a long-standing relationship with StepUp Ministry and very much believes & supports their mission to transform lives through employment and life skills training. With Wake County’s significant poverty level, the work that StepUp Ministry does is vital to helping break or mitigate poverty cycles and put individuals on trajectories towards more self-sustaining employment. That generational impact extends to positively impact the community at-large as well.

APC is proud to continue to be a financial contributor supporting this important work, as well as to give our employees & professionals the opportunity to get involved through payroll deduction donations. The annual donation amount received through the generous giving of APC employees & professionals increases by double-digit percentages each year and speaks to each individual’s belief in positively impacting lives!

Whether it’s assisting individuals recovering from addiction with workforce re-entry, creating fundraising teams for races, or even donning a Santa costume to deliver an annual Christmas performance & lunch to impoverished senior citizens battling Alzheimer’s, we are fortunate to help meet the needs of a variety of organizations doing tremendous work in our communities.

Some of the opportunities to give back with which APC has been (and often continues to be annually) involved include:

  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Raleigh Rescue Mission
  • Crisis Assistance Ministry-Charlotte
  • Red Nose Day
  • Walk for Hope
  • Charlotte Food Bank
  • Wake Assisted Living Center’s Annual Christmas Party
  • All-N-Together School Supply Drive
  • Hoops 4 Hunger Food Drive
  • Lumbee Tribal Nation of NC Disaster Relief
  • Raleigh Lung Cancer Walk
  • American Heart Association
  • InterAct
  • Meals on Wheels
  • Raleigh/Wake Human Resource Management Association (RWHRMA) Mentor Program
  • SPCA 3K Dog Walk
  • Operation Unchain Dogs
  • Saving Grace
  • High School Career Exploration Events
  • Dash Down Greenville

Recognizing Exceptional Performance

Each year, APC’s Waya Award honors a professional’s contributions and quality service to our clients with special acknowledgment for their dedication and exemplary work.

Cherokee for “Wolf,” the Waya is a sacred animal to Native Americans and symbolizes family, teamwork, intelligence, dignity, respect, pride in work, loyalty, and success of a mission.

Purpose

APC’s Waya Award recognizes an employee’s extraordinary professional contributions and quality service to our clients, as well as their integral role in advancing our client’s mission and fulfilling APC’s vision of positively impacting people’s lives.

Eligibility

All APC full-time employees are eligible. Due to IRS guidelines, we are unable to offer this award to non-employees subcontracting on our engagements.

Criteria

Nominees must have consistently performed in an exemplary manner, exceeding the expectations of their position, and should demonstrate commitment to the mission of the company and reflect APC’s values:

  • Positive attitude
  • Excellence in performance
  • Integrity
  • High quality of work
  • Teamwork

Nomination

All Client Managers are invited to participate in making nominations.
The Waya Award nomination form includes questions regarding the specific and current examples of the professional’s achievements and contributions that reflect the principle criteria and attributes mentioned above.

Selection Process

All nominations will be kept confidential before the selection process. Selection as a finalist relies on a multi-point system based on value, criteria and attributes. Please forward inquiries and concerns to mgmt@apcinc.com.

  • The Waya Award Administrator will coordinate nominations submitted with the Waya Award Committee for review and selection.

Award Prizes

All Nominees receive an APC Cornerstone Award acknowledging their value to the team. Quarterly and Annual winners each receive:

  1. A letter of appreciation from the President
  2. A feature article in the APC in Action blog and in the APC Newsletter
  3. Recognition on the APC corporate website
  4. Engraved/commemorative award plaque
  5. $100 Gift Card

The annual Waya Award Winner receives:

  1. Travel and Hotel
  2. Value of $3,750 + tax
  3. Customized with the assistance of APC’s travel agent
  4. Time off must conform to client’s needs
  5. Must use own available personal time off

It is not necessary for winners to be present in order to receive their award prizes.

If you are a Client Manager and would like to recognize an APC Professional, please take a moment to complete the Waya Award Nomination Form and tell us why you think they deserve such an important honor from APC.

Past Winners

2023 Winners

2022 Winners

2021 Winners

2020 Winners

2019 Winners

2017 Winners

2016 Winners

2018 Winners

A special congratulations goes to our Annual Waya Award winner!
They will enjoy an all-expenses-paid trip to the Caribbean courtesy of APC

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