History of McDonald Works, LLC

The seeds of McDonald Works began in 1996 as a multimedia content creation company called Mandrill Media Group. With offices at One Penn Plaza in New York, this first incarnation of Mandrill specialized in custom and standardized, on-demand, multimedia training content. Initially, delivery was done via CD-ROM, but through a partnership with an early on-line training company, Street Technologies, Mandrill developed training applications to be used with the company's pioneer streaming technology, StreamMaker. Mandrill remained a primary content contributor for Street Technologies as they grew and merged with companies Learn2 and Learn.com. As streaming systems like Flash began to dominate the marketplace, Mandrill began to utilize them to create content for other clients, and also offered services for website design and development.

Because many corporations were not yet comfortable with delivering training via computer in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Mandrill offered its clients blended or synergistic training that paired computerized training programs with a live trainer in a classroom. Some clients were not interested in online training at all and contracted for trainers alone. As a result, Mandrill added consultants to its services and eventually branched out to offer other types of consultants and contingent workers in addition to training personnel. As requests from our clients expanded to include orders for permanent positions as well as temps, job placement and recruiting began to represent the greater portion of Mandrill's business. The company name was changed to Mandrill Staffing & Placement and, as the company's core clients were in the Financial Services sector, its headquarters was moved downtown to 1 West Street in lower Manhattan. Throughout the 2000s, Mandrill Staffing remained a key player in New York City staffing industry and branched out from the metropolitan area to do placement at corporations across the company. However, as the number of job openings declined with the shrinking economy, the company's president decided to inactivate the company, and in 2011 passed along its client relationships to the newly formed McDonald Works LLC.

With offices in Rutland, VT and Westbury, NY and a partnership with the well-established Long island staffing firm Career Direction Inc., McDonald Works offers clients and candidates everything Mandrill once supplied to its clients and more. In addition to permanent and temporary recruiting for financial and administrative positions in finance, non-profit, and legal industries, areas of focus now include the information technology, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and entertainment industries. The partnership also offers executive recruiting. In addition, all of Mandrill's training and content creation specialists now work with McDonald Works/Career Direction.