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Guidelines for Search Firms in Working with McDermott

In order to work most efficiently and consistently with the many search firms who contact our Recruiting Departments, we have created the following guidelines to assist search firms in working with our Firm.

Resume Submission

• All Search Firm contacts with McDermott must be made through the Recruiting Department of the office at which the Search Firm is seeking to place a candidate.  No resume shall be deemed to be received by McDermott unless it is directed to, and received by, the office’s Recruiting Department.
  
  
• We ask that Search Firms only submit resumes for positions that are posted on the Available Positions section of our website.  If you have a strong candidate whose experience and interests do not match an Available Position, you may send the recruiting contact in the appropriate office a brief e-mail generically summarizing the candidate’s credentials and experience.  The recruiting contact will let you know based on that description if you may submit the candidate’s resume and transcript.
  
  
• All resumes for associate candidates must be submitted with a transcript.
  
  
• If a candidate is interested in more than one office, please submit the resume to the recruiting contact identified for each office in which the candidate has expressed an interest.  Please also identify the other McDermott office(s) to which the candidate has authorized you to submit his/her resume.

Search Firm Agreements

• All McDermott Search Firm agreements were updated in March 2006.  If your search firm has an agreement that predates March 2006, it is now null and void. 
  
  
• In order to manage the number of search firm agreements in which we are engaged, McDermott’s policy is to sign an agreement with a new search firm only when a resume has been submitted for an Available Position and we are interested in pursuing the candidate.  The firm would only sign an agreement with a search firm that submitted a resume for a candidate whose experience and interests don’t match the firm’s Available Positions if the recruiting contact agreed to receive a copy of the candidate’s resume after reviewing a generic description of the candidate’s experience.