One of my favorite things to do in an interview is to ask candidates to describe a time that they exceeded the expectations of a client or co-worker. No matter what role they play in the labor and production services, their answer always gives great insight into how they view their roles in an organization, […]
While there are no official numbers, we can safely assume that millions of people attend hundreds of thousands of events a year. This includes business events like conventions, trade shows, and conferences; and pure entertainment events like concerts. The one thing all these millions of people have in common is that none of them want […]
Returning from the 2019 Event Safety Alliance Summit in Lititz, PA our team has refocused our efforts on maintaining the reputation for safety that Complete Crewing has been known for in the Chicago production and events market. John Doyle, one of the industry pioneers in Chicago event staging has come back focused on polishing our internal […]
Accidents happen. They can be small (spilling wine over your new carpet) or big (leaving a forklift parked on a dock plate), but they do happen. They don’t have to happen though, and it’s up to each one of us in the AV labor and production world to minimize both the occurrence, and the level of […]
Complete Crewing would like to introduce Eric Eaton, our new Labor Coordinator, and Jessica Sutton, our new Payroll Administrator. We’re excited to add these two highly qualified and talented individuals to our team. We know their knowledge and experience will further solidify Complete Crewing as the leader […]
Henry Ford said, “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” For most of us, school eventually ends. We stop riding the school bus, we stop meeting friends at lockers, and we stop planning out study schedules and extra credit opportunities. That can be a relief, […]
In the world of event management, we often think about success in terms of “Did we hit the lighting cue on time?” “Did the event come in under budget?” “Did security keep the attendees safe?” While these are important aspects of a successful event, there’s another, higher-level idea that can impact whether an event was […]
About Complete Crewing Complete Crewing provides event producers, AV staging companies and technical directors with quality stagehand crews and corporate media technicians in Chicago and across the nation. We pride ourselves in developing proactive crewing solutions for our production clientele. We develop labor budgets for customers during the proposal or pre-production phase. Complete Crewing reviews […]
One day you’re staging an event for a TV company. The next you’re prepping equipment to be shipped cross-country. And then you end the week saving the day by having an HDMI-DVI conversion ready to go for an event with a national charity. In whatever city, or whatever state, the life of an Event Tech […]
John Doyle is a modest man whose career in the audiovisual industry once let him see Ginger Rogers give a dance lesson to a few Washington D.C. news correspondents. He’s worked with everyone from major insurance companies to John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson. He’s the man behind the curtain who makes sure events and conferences […]
