Case Study: Party City achieves faster, scalable seasonal hiring and near-100% compliance with ADP

Unforgettable experiences with ADP

Party City, a Rockaway, New Jersey–based retail chain with about 10,000 employees, faces extreme seasonal hiring demands—hundreds of thousands of applications around Halloween and the need to hire as many as 22,000 people in eight weeks. Before ADP, hiring was paper-based, time-consuming and opaque, making it hard to track applicant flow, staffing risk at specific stores, and compliance across locations.

By adopting ADP’s recruitment management, MyADP portal and related tools, Party City automated applicant tracking, communications and compliance (including I‑9 and WOTC), and gained real‑time visibility by location and time. The result: the company scales to more than 35,000 hires a year with consistent candidate experiences, removed hours of admin work per hire, nearly 100% WOTC compliance, faster interventions for underperforming stores, and freed HR to focus on strategic priorities—ADP acting as an extension of the team.

Party City

Vern Martin

Vice President Corporate HR