NAPERVILLE, Ill., April 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- General Employment Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE MKT: JOB) ("the Company" or "General Employment") a provider of specialty staffing services today announced the addition of a new team member, Kathleen Elston, who joins the professional services management team of the Company as Vice President Field Operations. Kathleen comes to General Employment with almost 30 years in the staffing industry. She started her career with Accountants Overload, a large regional southern California accounting and finance staff augmentation and permanent placement firm. Kathleen worked her way through the organization, beginning as a temporary staffing consultant, then executive recruiter, and based upon her outstanding performance, assumed the position of regional business development manager. Later in her career, she joined a start up company, Account on Us, as an assistant branch manager then branch manager and ultimately area manager. Account on Us was acquired by Accountants on Call/Ajilon a subsidiary of Adia (now Adecco) and she was promoted to Area Vice President of southern California. Under her leadership, the region grew to 8 branches with annual revenue of $50 million.

In 1995, Elston was recruited to help build Accounting Principals, a division of MPS Group (previously AccuStaff Incorporated) specializing in the staffing of finance and accounting professionals. She significantly grew the California region opening start up offices and adding strategic acquisitions in both northern and southern California. During this time, Elston produced two of the top offices nationally and a winning executive recruiter division, Parker and Lynch. Elston's plans upon joining General Employment are to develop a high margin full service finance and accounting staffing solutions group within existing offices and expand into new markets. Elston also plans to incorporate a high demand sub-specialty practice, bank compliance staffing and consulting, within select General Employment offices.

Commenting on the addition of Kathleen to the team, Derek Dewan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company noted, "Kathleen was a top performer at MPS Group in her position at Accounting Principals and has the knowledge and leadership skills necessary for General Employment to further expand in the finance and accounting staffing market. She is highly skilled and will help accelerate the organic growth in existing offices and open new branches. Her industry knowledge and network of contacts will assist us in recruiting top talent for our finance and accounting specialty practice. I look forward to working with her at General Employment and welcome her to the professional staffing management team."

About General Employment Enterprises, Inc.
General Employment Enterprises, Inc. (the "Company") was incorporated in the State of Illinois in 1962 and is the successor to employment offices doing business since 1893. The Company provides staffing services through a network of offices located in the United States. The Company operates in two industry segments, providing professional staffing services and solutions and light industrial staffing services through the names of General Employment, Ashley Ellis, Triad and Omni-One. Also, the Company serves the healthcare space with its Scribe Solutions brand.

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