Margins.
Boutique recruitment. Human scale.
The best outcomes in recruitment come from slowing down, paying attention, and treating everyone involved as a whole person. Margins works with candidates who take the search seriously, and with businesses that want hiring to reflect who they are and the values they hold. The process begins with listening and the work is shaped around your particular needs.
Jefferson St John | Principal
My name is Jefferson St John. Principal at Margins and the only person you will work with here.The path to Margins was not direct. Bar work, the law, disability support, agency recruitment, and nearly five years leading talent at Procreate, the team behind some of the most loved and powerful creative tools on the planet.Moving between cities, countries, industries and communities taught me things about people that no single professional environment ever could.That learning and experience is what Margins is built on. The approach is tailored every time. What stays constant is a genuine curiosity about people and close attention to your particular circumstances.
For candidates
Know your value, own your story.
Applications sent into silence. Rejections with no feedback. The sense that the process and system are broken but with no real way of knowing how or why. If any of that is familiar, working with Margins could be for you.The systems that govern hiring are rarely explained to the people moving through them. Understanding how they actually work, from the inside, changes everything. This is why Margins exists.We work together to maximise your potential and make the best possible representation of you and your skill set. We examine how you tell your story, how you show up online, how you prepare for interviews and more. The starting point is always you, where you are and where you want to get to.If you are at the beginning of your professional life, changing direction, or looking towards the next evolution of your career, Margins can help.
For companies
Know your people, build with intention.
Every hire shapes your business. The right person in the right role at the right time creates momentum that is hard to manufacture any other way.Recruitment decisions are among the highest-stakes decisions a growing business can make. Whether you have a process that needs rethinking or are building one for the first time, Margins can help.Margins works with growing businesses across the full spectrum, from individual placements to process audits, function-building and ongoing advisory retainers. You might want someone to run each hire for you or you might prefer to build the capability to do it well on your own, the work begins with understanding what you want to achieve.