IRVINE, LOS ANGELES, PLEASANTON, and RIVERSIDE, California, February 1, 2009 – McDermott & Bull, Southern California’s premier executive search firm, announced today the launch of the McDermott & Bull Direct Access program. Leveraging the years that McDermott & Bull has built relationships throughout the Western U.S., the McDermott & Bull Direct Access program was created as an opportunity to present clients that have an immediate need with a slate of candidates that have been chiefly sourced and vetted through previous retained searches. This program is unique in that it includes executive level candidates from many different functional areas, including finance and accounting, IT, HR, supply chain, and marketing, to name a few. Many of these candidates have been thoroughly interviewed and screened and can be endorsed by McDermott & Bull to their clients.
The program includes the following features:
- A reduced fee structure based on first year total targeted compensation (base and bonus), to be paid upon the hiring of a candidate.
- 1-year guarantee (same as the McDermott & Bull retained search guarantee).
- Less than one-week turnaround on candidates submitted for an open position, and possibly as short as two days.
- Every candidate will be interviewed by McDermott & Bull prior to being submitted.
“We have been doing a form of Direct Access for some of the firm’s Private Equity and Venture Capital backed clients for a number of years now,” commented Rod McDermott, Managing Director of McDermott & Bull. “These clients would buy or invest in a company and would call our firm and say they wanted to interview a high quality candidate pool of CFO’s, for example, and wanted to do it in less than two weeks. We would leverage our established relationships to serve this need in a very short period of time. Direct Access enables us to roll out this service to the rest of our clients and other companies in our business markets.”
McDermott & Bull Direct Access gives the clients the unique opportunity to engage a high quality slate of candidates that have primarily been sourced through previous retained searches, resulting in a higher quality and more targeted candidate pool than non-retained search candidates, and with zero obligation until a hire is made.
If you’d like to learn more about the the McDermott & Bull Direct Access Program, please contact us at (949) 753-1700.
About McDermott & Bull
McDermott & Bull, Inc. (www.mbsearch.net) is a retained executive search firm headquartered in Irvine, California with offices in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, the Inland Empire, and Denver, CO. The firm serves both public and privately held clients in a variety of industries and functional areas. McDermott & Bull has developed expertise in fields including Technology, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Bio-tech and Life Science, Retail, Professional Services, and others. Founded by Christopher Bull and Rodney McDermott, the firm specializes in recruiting difficult-to-find and critical talent for its clients. McDermott & Bull works with a large number of prestigious clients in many industries. Some notable clients include Allergan, Advanced Medical Optics, Western Digital, Conexant, Invitrogen, Bausch and Lomb, Black & Decker, Mattel, Boeing, Meggitt PLC, J.F. Shea and Union Bank.