For Recruiters & Agencies
The Candidate Your Client Keeps Describing.Steady under pressure. Reads a board. Has done the hard version of this before and will say so before it gets expensive. You have heard that brief a hundred times, and you already know exactly who it describes.
She is here, and this is the one room where she is looking back.
How It Works For An Agency
You Advertise For Average. You Beckon For Brilliant.One ladder, and every desk climbs it. No subscription to understand before you can begin, and no separate agency product. You buy credits once and draw them down as the briefs land — a desk carrying twenty searches buys for twenty and stops thinking about it.
A single role is $159. Ten credits bring it to $130 each, twenty-five to $120, fifty to $105, a hundred to $90. Credits last two years, so a quiet quarter costs you nothing.
Live Until She Is Found
Nothing HereA role you place stays up until the search closes. You are never re-buying a role because a calendar said so while your client was still deciding.
What Your Agency Gets
Three Reasons A Brief Closes Faster Here.Everybody In This Room Is The Shortlist
You are not filtering a general board down to the women of fifty and over. That is the whole of who is here, and every one of them came on purpose.
You Read Her Before You Ring Her
Her Portrait is written in her own words through the Career Studio — what she is brilliant at, what a room is like once she is in it. It is the part of a candidate a CV has never carried.
The Salary Is Already Out In The Open
Every role here shows what it pays, which is a condition of being here rather than a preference. Half the conversations that kill a placement at week three have already happened.
Your Client’s Brief, Made Into An Invitation
The Atelier Does The Part Clients Are Worst At.A brief arrives as a list of requirements and a salary band. The Role Atelier™ asks seven questions instead — what needs to become possible in the business, what will feel different by six months, what she can own and decide and change.
You hand your client back something better than they gave you, and the role in front of her is one worth answering.
Push Them Straight From Your Own System
Send Us Everything. We Will Take It From There.A desk carrying twenty searches publishes to a dozen places through one feed rather than typing into each. Send us that feed and we read it every hour — most recruitment systems publish something we already understand, and where yours does not we will work it out with you.
One Feed, Every Role
The same ladder everybody climbs. One credit publishes one role, and a role drawn from your feed costs exactly what a role typed by hand costs.
has not cost you anything at all. You are charged the moment it goes live and never for one sitting in the queue.
So the Atelier comes back to you. One message a morning, however many roles landed overnight, and one screen with all of them on it.
and it is one line in the feed. Everything else is at our end.
A role waits here until the Atelier is answered. It is never refused and never marked lesser — it simply does not reach a woman until it is worth the evening she would spend on it.
The heart of a role can only come from the client. Getting it out of them is what a desk is actually for.
And This Is The Part Worth Having
The Meeting Your Client Will Remember You For.You take the brief, and then you say: I am putting this on Lois, and they ask for things a job board has never asked for, so give me twenty minutes.
What needs to become possible this year that cannot happen today. Six months in, what is different that everybody can see. What is hers to decide without asking anybody, and where does that stop. What is genuinely demanding here. Where are you struggling right now.
Watch what happens. Your client sits forward. Nobody has asked them any of this, and it turns out they have been wanting to say it for two years — that the finance function is half-built and it shows, that the founder is the bottleneck on decisions that were never hers to make, that a good week here is quieter than anybody outside would believe.
Twenty minutes later they have described their own business better than they have in years, and they are enjoying themselves. And the person who made that happen was you.
You Walk Out With The Best Brief You Have Ever Had
In Your Client’s Own Words, And They Will Thank You For AskingThe heart of a role only ever exists inside the business doing the hiring. Getting it out of them is what a good desk has always been for — and this is the first time anybody has handed you the exact questions to ask.
Send us your feed and we will set it up at our end. There is nothing for you to build.
See It For Yourself
Traditional Job Ads Attract Average. We Beckon Brilliance.A Traditional Job Ad
Written Once, Posted Everywhere, Answered By AnybodyWe are seeking an experienced Head of Operations to join our growing team. The successful candidate will have 10+ years’ experience, excellent communication skills and a proven track record of delivering results in a fast-paced environment.
Reporting to the Managing Director, you will oversee production and finance and be responsible for process improvement and stakeholder management.
Excellent communicator. Strong attention to detail. Applications close Friday.
Written In The Atelier
Built Question By Question, Never Posted As An AdvertisementFerngrove Studios
Hybrid Melbourne, VIC $145,000 – $165,000 + super
We have outgrown the way we work. Ferngrove has doubled in three years, and the systems that carried us here are held together by memory and goodwill.
That we will fix it after this next project. We have said that for two years, and we say it again every time somebody leaves.
Six months in, the studio runs without anyone holding their breath. Our founder stops being the bottleneck on decisions that were never hers to make.
Ana stops sending messages at eleven at night. That is the measure, and everybody here would recognise it.
You own the operating budget and you decide how it is spent. You can change any process you inherit without asking permission, and you hire and shape your own team.
Creative direction stays with Ana and client pricing stays with our commercial lead. We would rather tell you that now than have you find it out in March.
Two of us leave at three on a Thursday and nobody has ever once asked why. You will not be explaining yourself here.
Production weeks run hot, roughly six a year, and we say so before you ask.
Twenty-six people, eleven years old, independent, and intending to stay that way.
Thursday lunch, every week, all twenty-six of us at one table with the phones face down. It has survived three office moves and one very bad year.
Our finance function is half-built and it shows. You would be walking into both, with our hands held up about it.
You have run operations somewhere that outgrew its systems, and you can still remember what it cost. You are sick of being the only person who writes anything down. You find the difficult conversation easy and the small talk exhausting, and you would rather fix a process once than be thanked for rescuing it eleven times.
You will never be asked for a degree, a certification, or an unbroken run of years. Two of our best people came back after a long gap and neither has ever been asked to account for it.
If you bring calm to complexity, see what matters and enjoy making a good business work even better, we would love to hear from you.
Ana does, herself, and she answers every one. No forms, no portal, and nothing you write disappears into a system.
Once A Role Is Up
A Shortlist You Did Not Have To Chase.Every woman here wrote her own Portrait and chose what of it a desk may read. Place one role and all of it opens to you — and you can write to any one of them by hand, on Lois, without a single cold call.
Nobody is scored, nobody is ranked, and no machine decides who belongs on your list.
Melbourne Founding Desks
The First Five Desks Only.LOIS opens in Melbourne, and exactly five desks come in before anybody pays. Six months of placing roles at no cost, then half price on your first pack of credits, then the same ladder everybody climbs.
The point of it is plain. A room with real roles in it before a single woman is asked to look — and if you are one of the five, your desk is the reason she finds anything at all.