Amanda Seiler

AP Professionals – Named One of the Best Places to Work by the Phoenix Business Journal

Professionals, we have done it again! To close out another remarkable year, AP Professionals was recognized by the Phoenix Business Journal as one of the best places to work in Phoenix in 2024! We had the honor of attending the Phoenix Business Journals Best Places to Work event for the 9th time in a row in early December. AP Professionals has been named as one of the best places to work in the Valley since 2016 in the micro category. This year, the event was themed the Wild West & they sure brought the excitement!

Companies are decided upon by the PBJ with a strict set of criteria to meet. Employees within the company are asked to anonymously complete an evaluation survey provided by the PBJ on the criteria below:

• Team effectiveness
• Retention risk
• Alignment with goals
• Trust with co-workers
• Individual contribution
• Manager effectiveness
• Trust in senior leaders
• Feeling valued
• Work engagement
• People practice

With so many categories for our employees to critique us on, we feel very honored to have landed among the top ten highest ranked. We pride ourselves on providing a supportive, understanding & positively challenging environment where each of us can grow professionally & personally. Employee responses are anonymous, and we know that there is always room to improve.

We are honored to receive this recognition time & time again. We want to thank our team members for all they do each & every day. Always representing AP Professionals at the highest standard!

Check out the article below from the Phoenix Business Journal regarding this year’s honorees:

https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/c/2024-best-places-to-work.html

Mark Pautler, Jerry Tenenbaum & Tony Ragusa, starting us off with a strong foundation!

Our  three founders & partners were able to get together in upstate New York to celebrate a wedding in the Pautler Family! Mark’s son got married recently & it was a beautiful event where all three original AP Professionals could share in this monumental occasion.

Mark & Jerry originally met in 1982 while working together at ADP in Rochester, NY. They both enjoyed working for ADP but when the opportunity to partner together with Tony came their way, they knew they had to dive right in. In 1993, AP Professionals opened their first branch in Western New York (AP WNY). Mark then partnered with Tony to open AP Professionals of Rochester in 1996. Finally, Jerry, Mark & Tony joined forces to open AP Professionals of Phoenix in 1998! The relationship that they created is the foundation of our mission statement, Building Relationships that Last a Lifetime.

Jerry, having boots on the ground in Arizona, built up the AP Professionals of Phoenix office and eventually was able to expand into Nevada, Oregon, Washington & Maryland with the help of a committed team that remains intact today! Offering top-rated benefits, a full-time staff that has worked together for 10+ years and experts in the industry with access to Fortune 100 companies – all these unique factors came from building positive, authentic relationships throughout the years.

The relationship built between this trio is something that doesn’t come around often. From monumental business ventures to monumental life events, they continue to ensure that their own relationship will last a lifetime and that this also holds true for each of our AP consultants.