No applicant for employment shall suffer any disqualification, or be otherwise prejudiced, at any public employment office on account of refusing to accept employment offered. The reliability and fitness of an applicant for the particular position which he is to fill shall always be taken into consideration in referring him to an employer. No applicant procuring employment with any employer other than the State, through the medium of the bureau¹ or its officials, shall be regarded in any sense as an employe or official of the State.