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Build a great Temp/Contract business

A strong temporary and contract business gives a recruitment company sustainability and security in tough times and maximises profit in a rising economic cycle.

This annuity revenue is also what super-boosts the value of your recruitment business when it comes time to exit.

Greg Savage has started and managed several recruitment businesses, three of which grew to over 1,000 temps paid weekly. In this brand-new webinar brought to you by Wingman Recruitment, he outlines how to start, grow, manage and measure your temporary and contract businesses. This session will be aimed at owners and managers and will include the following.

• The size, scale and importance of the Temp and Contract market
• Importance of Temp/Contract to recruitment companies
• How AI will affect the Temp/Contract business
• The value of a recruitment business with strong temp vs. only perm
• 20 Action steps to start a Temp and Contract business
• Risks and traps of a Temp / Contract Desk
• Revenue vs Margin vs Mark-up vs Gross profit vs Net Fee Income!
• Temp and Contract vs Permanent – the differences
• Negotiating fees, margins, pay rates, contracts and buy-outs
• The DNA of a Temp Recruiter
• 5 skills your Temp/Contract team must have
• Key metrics and ratios to watch
• KPIs for Temp recruiters
• The power of one $ of margin
• 4 ways to boost your temp business

You will learn;

Thursday 20th August
12 noon (AEST)
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  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On August 10, 2026
  • 1 Comment

1 Comment

RT
  • Aug 22 2026
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Greg, from the US side of the fence: traveling skilled trades here - shutdowns, data centers, industrial - is about as pure a temp and contract business as it gets, and the desks that struggle are almost never weak on activity. They are weak on rate knowledge. We run a job board for traveling trades workers, and pay in these trades moves monthly now, with per diem making up half the package. Quote a client off last year's electrician rate and you either price yourself out of the deal or hand away the spread - both look like a margin problem, but they are really an information problem. Your point that temp is where the business value lives is right; the margin just only holds if the rate card is current. We publish live pay and demand data for the traveling trades because guessing is the expensive option.

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