Staffing Agency Calgary — Permanent Hiring Across Alberta
Alliance recruits permanent staff for Calgary employers across energy, construction, industrial, logistics, office, and technical roles. Direct hire only, onto your payroll. Screened shortlists within 5 working days, backed by a 90-day replacement guarantee.
Our Calgary recruitment specialists manage sourcing, screening, interviews, and offer coordination, helping employers secure qualified permanent talent without adding recruitment workload. We combine local market knowledge with targeted candidate searches to deliver reliable hires aligned with your role, team, and business needs.
16+ Years Of Experience
550,000+ Placements Delivered
36+ Countries Served
350+ Expert Teams
50+ Top Level Positions
What Does a Calgary Staffing Agency Do?
A Calgary staffing agency sources, screens, and shortlists candidates for Alberta employers, who then hire the successful person directly onto their own payroll.
Calgary’s hiring difficulty is specific, and it is not supply. It is that the talent pool moves with the commodity cycle. When energy is strong, good candidates have three offers, and your process has two weeks before they are gone. When it turns, the same posting draws four hundred applications, and someone has to read them.
Alliance is a permanent recruitment firm. We do not supply temporary or contract labour. That is a deliberate limit. Every hire we make is someone you employ directly, which means our incentive is retention rather than billable hours, and it means we get paid once whether the person stays a year or a decade. The replacement guarantee is what puts our money behind that.
We operate as a Calgary employment agency and Calgary recruiting agency across every function and level, from technicians to leadership.
For hiring across the wider province, see our recruitment agency Alberta service.
Calgary Staffing and Recruiting — Permanent Placement, Nothing Else
Most Calgary staffing agencies run temp desks alongside permanent, and the temp desk pays the bills. Alliance places permanent hires only. No bill-rate margin, no incentive to keep someone on our books, no conflict between what suits us and what suits you. As a hiring agency Calgary employers use for roles that matter, we are paid once, on a placement that is meant to last.
How Long Does Permanent Hiring in Calgary Take?
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Shortlist: 5 working days for standard roles, 2 to 3 weeks for technical or senior roles.
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Office and administrative roles: filled in 2 to 4 weeks.
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Trades, technical, and industrial: 3 to 6 weeks.
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Professional and engineering: 4 to 8 weeks.
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Management and leadership: 6 to 12 weeks.
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Volume permanent hiring of 10 or more: 4 to 8 weeks for a full cohort.
How Much Does a Calgary Staffing Agency Cost?
Permanent placements are charged as a percentage of the candidate’s first-year base salary, varying by seniority and role difficulty, invoiced on the start date. There is no hourly rate and no ongoing margin, because we do not employ the person. You are quoted before sourcing begins, not after the shortlist arrives.
What We Offer in Every Calgary Recruitment Engagement
Permanent placement only, onto your payroll
Safety tickets and credentials verified against the issuing body
Right to work confirmed at screening
Alberta salary benchmarking, applied honestly
Counter-offer and retention risk assessed
90-day replacement guarantee on every placement
Our Calgary Recruitment Process — From Brief to Start Date
Requirement Call (Same Day):
Role, reporting line, salary band, site location within Calgary or Alberta, shift or rotation pattern, required tickets, and the non-negotiables. We also ask what the last person in the role did well and badly, which tells us more than the job description does.
Market Reality Check (Day 1):
Our Calgary recruiter confirms whether the role is fillable at your band and timeline. In a tight energy market, that answer is sometimes no, and you should hear it now rather than in week six.
Sourcing and Screening (Days 1 to 4):
Database, referral, and direct market approach, including candidates not applying to postings. Every candidate is interviewed against your requirements, with tickets and credentials verified.
Shortlist (Day 5):
Three to five candidates with salary expectations, notice period, ticket status with expiry dates, and stated gaps. You should not need to re-screen this list.
Interview, Offer and Start:
We coordinate scheduling and feedback, support the offer, manage counter-offer risk through notice, and confirm the start. In a cyclical market, the risk window is between offer and first day, so that is where we stay close.
Post-Start Follow-Up:
We check in after the candidate starts to confirm the role, expectations, and working arrangement are on track. If an issue emerges early, we address it quickly and support the replacement process where the guarantee applies.
Hiring Permanent Staff in Calgary?
Get a screened shortlist within 5 working days, with qualified candidates matched to your requirements.
Industries We Recruit For in Calgary and Alberta
Energy, Oil and Gas:
Calgary’s defining sector. Field operations, production, HSE advisors, engineering, technical support and corporate functions for operators and service companies.
Construction and Trades:
Journeyman trades, site supervision, superintendents, estimators, project coordinators and project managers across commercial, industrial and residential.
Industrial and Manufacturing:
Industrial staffing for production supervision, maintenance, quality, plant leadership and skilled operators across the Foothills and Rocky View industrial parks.
Engineering:
Engineering recruitment across mechanical, electrical, civil, process and structural disciplines, for consultancies and owner-operators.
Logistics and Supply Chain:
Warehouse and distribution leadership, planners, procurement, transport and dispatch.
Accounting and Finance:
Accountants, controllers, financial analysts, payroll and AP/AR leads.
Office and Administration:
Executive assistants, office managers, coordinators, customer service and administrative leadership.
Technology:
IT staffing agency Calgary requirements including developers, infrastructure, support and data roles across Calgary’s growing tech and energy-tech sector.
Hospitality and Tourism:
Hospitality staffing for hotel, venue and restaurant management roles.
Who We Serve
Energy operators and service companies
Construction contractors
Industrial and manufacturing sites
Growing Calgary businesses without an internal recruiter
Companies that lost candidates at offer stage
Employers hiring across multiple locations
Specialist and technical employers
Businesses expanding in Alberta
The Alliance Advantage in Calgary Recruitment
Permanent only, which aligns our incentive with yours: We are paid once, on placement, with a replacement guarantee behind it. A firm earning an hourly margin on a contractor has a reason to keep them placed. We do not.
Tickets verified against the issuing body: H2S Alive, CSTS, Ground Disturbance, WHMIS, and trade certifications confirmed with expiry dates, not accepted as a scan.
We tell you when the role is unfillable at your band: In the scoping call, before you have spent six weeks discovering it. It costs us assignments, and it is the most useful thing an agency can say in a cyclical market.
Counter-offer and retention risk assessed before you interview: Movement history, reason for leaving, and likely counter-offer response, examined at screening rather than discovered at resignation.
3 to 5 candidates with the gaps written down: Not thirty resumés forwarded from a keyword search. Your hiring manager should read the shortlist once.
One agency across Calgary, Alberta, and 36+ countries: Multi-location hiring on one agreement, which matters if your operations are not confined to one city.
Why Choose Alliance Among Calgary Staffing Agencies?
Search best recruitment agencies in Calgary, and you will find a crowded, mature market where every firm claims local depth and speed. We will be straight about where we sit in it.
Alliance is a global permanent recruitment firm with 16+ years, 15,000+ placements, and 1,500+ clients across 36+ countries. In Calgary specifically, we are a challenger, not the incumbent. Firms that have staffed the Alberta patch since the 1990s have relationships we do not, and if your requirement is one hard-to-find local specialist whom the incumbent already knows, they will probably beat us on that role.
What we bring is discipline that transfers. Credentials verified rather than assumed, an honest answer about whether your band will buy the profile, and a shortlist of three to five your manager reads once. We also do not run a temp desk, which means nobody here is deciding whether your permanent vacancy is worth working when a contract order lands the same morning.
Where we are the stronger choice is volume permanent hiring, credential-heavy roles, and multi-location requirements where one agreement beats four.
For province-wide hiring, see our recruitment agency Alberta service.
For national coverage, see our staffing agency Canada team.
For senior and confidential appointments, our executive search firms practice runs those on retained terms.
Our Client Reviews
Alliance understood our hiring requirements and quickly introduced us to qualified candidates in Calgary. Their team made the recruitment process straightforward and kept us informed at every stage.
We needed experienced professionals for several permanent positions, and Alliance delivered a strong shortlist that matched our requirements. Their local market understanding and responsive service made a real difference.
Alliance helped us fill important roles without the delays we had experienced with other staffing agencies. The candidates were well-screened, relevant to the positions, and the overall hiring process was highly professional.
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Meet Our Leadership Team
Molly Anderson
Franchise Lead | Recruitment Franchise
Alex George
General Manager | RPO & Enterprise Recruitment
Nikki Miller
Head of Recruitment | Recruitment & Staffing
Frequently Asked Questions
A Calgary staffing agency sources, screens and shortlists candidates for Alberta employers, who then hire the successful person directly onto their own payroll. Alliance handles role scoping, sourcing, screening, shortlisting, interview coordination and offer support.
No. Alliance places permanent hires only. We do not supply temporary workers, contract labour or employer-of-record arrangements. Every candidate we place is employed directly by you.
Shortlists in 5 working days for standard roles. Office roles fill in 2 to 4 weeks, trades and technical in 3 to 6 weeks, professional and engineering in 4 to 8 weeks, and leadership in 6 to 12 weeks.
A percentage of the candidate’s first-year base salary, varying by seniority and role difficulty, invoiced on start date. There is no hourly rate and no ongoing margin.
Yes. If a placement does not work out within the guarantee period, we run the search again at no additional fee.
Yes. H2S Alive, CSTS, Ground Disturbance, First Aid, WHMIS, Fall Protection, trade certifications, and professional designations are verified against the issuing body, with expiry dates recorded.
3 to 5 per role, each with salary expectation, notice period, ticket status, and stated gaps, rather than thirty unscreened resumés.
The terms are used interchangeably in Alberta. Some agencies supply temporary labour, some place permanent staff, and many do both. Alliance places permanent staff only.
Yes. Across Alberta, including Edmonton, Red Deer, Fort McMurray, and Grande Prairie; nationally across Canada, and in 36+ countries.
Yes. Cohorts of 10 or more permanent hires, typically delivered over 4 to 8 weeks.
Yes. Developers, infrastructure, support, and data roles on permanent terms.
Contact Alliance with the role, salary band, site location, required tickets, and timeline. We confirm feasibility at your band and return a screened shortlist within 5 working days.
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