About Upforce
Founded by Canadian business operators
with over 15 years of building, scaling,
and hiring across Alberta industries.
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15+
Years of Canadian business operating experience
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4
Immigration pathways covered
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90
Days of replacement guarantee per placement
Why we exist
After fifteen years of running businesses across Alberta, we saw the gap from the employer side. So we closed it.
Most recruitment agencies sell a single immigration pathway and let the employer figure out whether it fits. The wrong one costs months. We watched that play out on hiring desks across food service, hospitality, trades, and beauty across the province, and we built Upforce to handle the trade-off ourselves: pathway selection, sourcing, employer-side IRCC filings, arrival, and the 90-day check-ins. One Edmonton team, one written agreement, one published price.
The Upforce philosophy
Five principles. No exceptions.
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Quality over volume
Three to five vetted candidates. Not thirty resumes.
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Compliance-first
Written agreement. Milestone payments. Alberta licensed.
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Multi-pathway by default
Mobilité Francophone, LMIA, IMP, PR. The right one for your role.
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Local accountability
Edmonton HQ. Canadian team. Real names on every call.
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Long-term partnership
90-day replacement guarantee. 30/60/90-day check-ins.
Our presence
Edmonton-headquartered. Canadian-led. Globally sourced.
Our headquarters is in Edmonton, Alberta, where the team operates and where the engagement decisions get made. Our partner-office network handles candidate-side intake abroad. The work that touches your business stays in Canada with named accountability.
- Edmonton, AB headquarters (10509 81 Ave NW)
- Alberta Employment Agency Licence #[TBD]
- $25,000 security bond on file
- RCIC partnership for candidate-side immigration
15+
years of Canadian business operating experience behind the Upforce founding team. Every engagement is shaped by that operating reality, not a recruitment textbook.
How we differ
One team. One written agreement. One published price.
If you are weighing Upforce against a single-pathway agency or your in-house HR team, the comparison is short. Upforce is multi-pathway, milestone-priced, Edmonton-accountable, and 90-day-guaranteed. The other paths trade one of those for cost or speed. The math is on our pricing page; the operational reality is on our process page.
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