What's your conversion fee if we hire a temp permanently?
What staffing and recruiting agencies need to publish
Client companies are often surprised by this fee, and disclosing it proactively prevents a trust breakdown.
How customers actually ask it
The same intent arrives in wording your page probably does not use. All of these mean the same thing:
- “What's your conversion fee if we hire a temp permanently?”
- “temp to hire cost”
- “buyout fee”
- “permanent placement charge”
What a complete answer contains
For staffing and recruiting agencies specifically, an answer is only complete when it covers all 4:
- 1
Real fee structure and percentages
- 2
How it changes over time (sliding scale)
- 3
When it's waived, if applicable
- 4
That it's disclosed in the service agreement upfront
A worked example
Illustrative — not a real business
Our conversion fee is 20% of the candidate's annual salary if hired within the first 90 days of placement, decreasing to 10% between 90-180 days, and waived entirely after 180 days on assignment. We disclose this in your service agreement upfront, not as a surprise when you decide to hire.
Which page should own it
Conversion fee schedule page
What silence costs
An undisclosed conversion fee, discovered only when a client wants to hire, is a serious trust breach that damages the agency relationship.
More questions staffing and recruiting agencies get
- Who is my actual employer during a temp assignment?
- How long does it take to fill a position?
- How fast can you actually fill an open position for us?
- What happens if the temp employee doesn't work out?
- During a temp assignment, who is actually the employer — you or the client company?
- What's the fee if we want to hire a temp permanently instead of continuing through you?
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AI customer support for staffing agencies
Staffing relationships have two facts that both candidates and client companies need stated plainly: during a temp placement, the agency (not the client company) is legally the employer of record, and converting a temp to a permanent hire usually triggers a real conversion fee. RubyRep explains both clearly, alongside the process and pricing questions both sides ask constantly.
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What is AI customer service?
AI customer service means answering customer questions with a language model rather than a person. The useful implementations are grounded in a specific business's own content; the poor ones let a general model improvise, which produces confident answers that are wrong.
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What is a knowledge base?
Traditionally a knowledge base is a help centre humans read. For AI support it is the source material a representative answers from — which means an ordinary website, well written, can serve as one without a separate help centre.
Does your site answer this already?
Point RubyRep at your website and ask it this exact question. If it cannot answer, neither can your customers.