Create a dependable event workforce for the work that happens before doors open, while guests are onsite and after the final attendee leaves. ABL can apply its temporary, project and high-volume staffing model to scheduled events and short-duration workforce needs.
ABL brings together industrial and customer-service recruiting capabilities to support event staffing, conferences and corporate events, festivals and special events, guest services and event support, and set-up and tear-down crews. We can build project teams around the schedule, work environment and mix of guest-facing and physical roles required for each event.
Event work is deadline-driven. ABL has experience with rapid, high-volume recruiting and deployment for short-notice projects.
ABL Careers recruits customer-focused and retail-service talent suited to guest-services and event-support requirements.
ABL Employment recruits general labourers, material handlers and project teams for physical event-support requirements.
Event Staffing: temporary and project crews requiring ushers, greeters, guest relations, and staff.
Conferences & Corporate Events: customer-facing and administrative event support, such as greeters, registration desk staff, ticket scanning, front-of-house staff, merchandisers.
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events: staffing for music festivals, food festivals, cultural festivals, Canada Day events, Fall Harvest Fairs, pop-up concerts and theatre productions, in roles such as ticket scanners, maintenance and merchandizing staff, servers, guest assistants, performer assistants, parking attendants.
Guest Services / Event Support: customer service and retail-service style roles. Transportation crew, shuttle drivers, parking attendants, cashiers.
Set-Up & Tear-Down Crews: general labour and material-handling project crews to build or set up stage sets and decor, set-up seating, and clean-up after shows.
Retail Promotional Events: product samplers and demonstrators, credit card promoters, brand ambassadors, brand samplers, field marketers, and promotional models.
Flexible support for peaks, absences, projects and changing workload.
Evaluate performance, attendance and fit on assignment before a permanent hire.
Bring selected hires onto your payroll immediately with graduated weekly billing and a built-in guarantee.
Target permanent specialists, or extend your hiring team with screened, interview-ready candidates.
Flexible Standby & Scalable Crews: We build standby teams capable of handling fast-paced, high-end live shows, seasonal peaks, and single-night or multi-day events.
Comprehensive Role Coverage: Staff can be deployed for various event functions, including stage setup, merchandise and décor handling, guest ushering, customer service, and post-event teardown/clean-up.
Pre-Screened & Reliable Personnel: ABL recruits, interviews, and evaluates candidates who possess face-to-face customer service experience and general setup capabilities.
We confirm the role, workload, timing, work environment, required skills and definition of success.
ABL attracts, screens and skill-matches candidates, then completes the agreed onboarding and preparation.
We coordinate starts, remain in contact, gather feedback and coach associates to support productivity and retention.
A leading live-event producer required reliable staff for one-night concert and theatrical events across Canada, often in smaller markets where local recruiting resources were limited. ABL provided ongoing recruitment support across eight provinces, sourcing, screening, scheduling, and coordinating more than 400+ event workers to perform multiple roles including ushering, greeting, ticket scanning, and event set-up/tear-down. Leveraging a strong referral network, extensive job-board reach, and virtual recruitment tools, ABL consistently delivered local talent in both major centres and regional markets, enabling the client to scale its national event program through a single staffing partner.
A national experiential marketing agency required dependable transportation staff for a high-profile youth sporting event where selected young athletes and their families were being shuttled between hotels and event venues. Because the experience was tied to a major international soccer promotion, no-shows, service issues, or safety concerns were not an option. ABL supplied 10 screened drivers and 1 on-site event coordinator on 3 days over a 2 month period, providing professionals with clean driving records, strong customer-service skills, and a safety-first approach. By combining rigorous screening with hands-on event coordination, ABL helped ensure participants and their families received reliable, friendly transportation throughout the event, delivering the seamless experience expected of a nationally recognized brand partnership.
Since 2022, ABL has provided annual staffing support for a major multi-day music, food & cultural festival, helping organizers scale their workforce during one of the busiest periods of the summer festival event season. Over the course of the partnership, ABL has deployed 92 unique workers across a variety of roles, including event set-up, teardown, assistance to performers, inventory management, locker operations, and day and night general labour assignments. By maintaining a reliable roster of event-ready talent and responding to changing workforce requirements throughout the festival, ABL has helped ensure critical operational functions remain fully staffed, allowing event organizers to focus on delivering an exceptional attendee experience.
“We found out our current supplier was sending us undocumented workers paid cash ‘under the table’, putting us at risk of fines and penalties from the Ministry of Labour. ABL swiftly refilled 40 positions with vetted, documented staff within 4 days, enabling us to focus on customer needs without liability concerns.”
“I could not make it through my days without their friendly, motivated and effective personnel on the after-hours line. We are very reliant on ABL to assist us with our staffing needs. We have the highest regard for ABL. They come through when we have a last minute change of plans and respond promptly with updates and confirmations. The relationship and professionalism is exceptional.”
“ABL is an excellent staffing partner. They work with us to provide qualified people in all areas of our operation … from our Head office to Store Support Customer Service Centres to our distribution and retail locations. They are an excellent provider. We ask the impossible and they somehow seem to deliver. They perform miracles for us every day.”
Yes. Our screening and registration process includes checking Social Insurance Numbers, and reviewing any work permits. Our systems track expiry dates and send notifications to the candidates and ABL staffing teams a month in advance of any work permits expiring. We take into consideration the best fit for any long-term assignments or direct hire roles, so that only candidates with appropriate eligibility are placed.
Yes. Temporary staffing is intended for peaks, ramp-ups, vacancies and projects, with temp-to-hire and permanent options available when the need becomes ongoing.
Yes. Our temp-to-hire solution is designed to let clients evaluate workplace performance before transition to their payroll. After the agreed transfer period, often 500 billed hours, the associate may join your payroll without an additional conversion fee. Earlier conversion options may also be available.
ABL has separate customer-service and industrial recruiting capabilities. We understand the importance of meeting candidates face-to-face, either virtually or in-person, to evaluate a customer-facing fit for roles in customer service, event staffing, or even home deliveries.
Tell us about your roles, hiring timeline, work environment and current staffing pressures. We’ll help build a practical hiring plan around your operation.