DM&P Employer Terms and Conditions
Version 1.0. Effective 11/12/26.
These Terms apply to every employer that requests or receives candidate introductions from Dedicated to the Mission & Purpose LLC ("DM&P," "we," "us"). By submitting a request for candidate profiles, accepting these Terms electronically, or asking us to introduce a Candidate, the employer ("you") agrees to them.
Summary in plain English
You tell us the roles you are hiring for. We send three matched, anonymized candidate profiles within 5 business days.
Seeing profiles costs nothing. You interview and make every hiring decision.
If you hire a Candidate we introduced, you pay a flat $500 per hire. We invoice when the Candidate accepts your offer, and the invoice is due in 30 days.
If the Candidate never starts or leaves within 30 days of starting, we credit the full fee toward a replacement.
If you do not hire anyone we introduced, you owe nothing.
A hire counts if it happens within 12 months of our introduction, however it happens.
1. Who we are and what we do
DM&P introduces college students to employers for internships and entry-level roles. We speak with students, confirm basic facts such as major, expected graduation date, availability and work authorization status as the student reports it, and match them to the requirements you give us. We do not employ the students we introduce, we do not act as their agent in negotiating pay, and we do not make hiring decisions for you.
2. Definitions
Candidate: a student whom DM&P introduces or describes to you.
Candidate Profile: an anonymized summary of a Candidate (major, class year, GPA range, coursework and projects, availability, location, work authorization status and our screening note). A Candidate Profile does not include the Candidate's name or contact details.
Job Order: your written or verbal notice of a job opening, including the requirements you want us to match. We will ask you to confirm it in writing, and an email is enough.
Introduction: DM&P's release of a Candidate's identity or contact details to you, or arranging a conversation between you and the Candidate. The Introduction Date is the date of that release or arrangement.
Hire: any offer of employment, internship, co-op or other paid engagement that a Candidate accepts from you or your affiliates, in any role, whether or not the role matches the Job Order.
Hire Fee: the fee described in Section 4.
Start Date: the first day the Candidate begins work.
Attribution Period: the 12 months after the Introduction Date.
3. How the service works
You send us a Job Order.
We send up to three Candidate Profiles within 5 business days of receiving it. We do not send Candidate Profiles or any Candidate materials before we have a Job Order.
If you want to meet a Candidate, you tell us, you accept these Terms (a click-through or e-signature is enough), and the Candidate agrees to the Introduction. We then make the Introduction. We do not release a Candidate's name, resume or contact details before then.
You interview and decide. Hiring decisions, offers, pay and start dates are yours alone.
You tell us when a Candidate accepts an offer (Section 7). We then invoice the Hire Fee.
4. Fees and payment
Hire Fee. $500 per Hire, whether the role is an internship, co-op or full-time position. The fee is a flat amount and is not a percentage of pay. DM&P may change the fee for future Introductions on 30 days' written notice, and the change does not affect Candidates already introduced.]
No hire, no fee. You owe nothing for Candidate Profiles, for Introductions, or for interviews that do not lead to a Hire.
When we invoice. We invoice when a Candidate accepts your offer. We do not wait for the Start Date.
When payment is due. Invoices are due 30 days after the invoice date. We accept ACH and card [and may ask you to authorize a payment method in advance].
Late payment. Unpaid amounts accrue interest at 1.5% per month, or the maximum rate the law allows if lower. You agree to pay reasonable collection costs and attorney's fees we incur to collect an overdue invoice.
Multiple hires. A separate Hire Fee applies to each Candidate you hire.
Conversion. If you hire a Candidate as an intern and later hire the same Candidate for a full-time role within the Attribution Period, no additional fee is owed.
Taxes. Fees do not include taxes. You are responsible for any sales or similar tax that applies.
5. Credit guarantee
If a Candidate you hire does not start work, or leaves or is terminated for any reason within 30 days after the Start Date, we credit the full Hire Fee toward a replacement Candidate. The credit is valid for 12 months from the date you tell us. If you have not yet paid the invoice, you owe nothing for that Hire once we confirm the Candidate did not start or left within the 30 days. The guarantee does not apply if you ask the Candidate to leave in order to avoid the fee.
6. Attribution Period and no circumvention
The Hire Fee is owed on any Hire of a Candidate who was introduced to you during the Attribution Period, whether you hire the Candidate directly, through an affiliate, through another recruiter or agency, through a school program, or any other channel. You agree not to avoid the Hire Fee by delaying an offer, by hiring through a third party, or by any other means. If a Candidate you reached through another source was first introduced by DM&P, DM&P's Introduction controls.
7. Notice and records
You agree to tell us in writing within 5 business days after a Candidate accepts an offer, giving the Candidate's name, role, offer date and Start Date. You also agree to tell us if a Candidate does not start or leaves within the first 30 days. On reasonable request, you will confirm in writing whether a Candidate we introduced has been hired. We may also check with Candidates, who agree when they join our pool to tell us about offers and hires that follow our Introductions.
8. Your responsibilities as an employer
You are solely responsible for your hiring decisions and for complying with all laws that apply to hiring and employment, including laws against discrimination, wage and hour and internship rules, work authorization verification (such as Form I-9), background checks, workplace safety, and any required notices. You will not use Candidate Profiles or any Candidate information to discriminate on a basis the law protects. You are the Candidate's employer for all purposes once you hire them.
9. Candidate information and no guarantees
Candidate Profiles and Candidate information come from students' own statements, their materials and our screening conversations. We do not independently verify grades, transcripts, work history or authorization status unless we say so in writing, and you should verify information that matters to you before making an offer. We do not guarantee that any Candidate will be qualified, available, interested, a good fit, or successful, or that you will find a Candidate that meets your requirements. DM&P makes no promise about the number of Candidates available at any time.
10. Confidentiality and use of Candidate information
You will use Candidate Profiles and Candidate information only to evaluate Candidates for employment with you. You will not sell, share or publish it, and you will keep it secure. If you decide not to pursue a Candidate, you will delete that Candidate's materials from your systems on request, unless the law requires you to keep them. We will keep your Job Orders and business information confidential and will use them only to provide the service. We handle student information under our privacy policy [link].
11. Non-exclusive relationship
These Terms do not require you to use DM&P for any role, to hire anyone, or to stop recruiting through other channels. DM&P and you are independent parties. Nothing here creates an employment, agency, partnership or joint-venture relationship, and neither of us may bind the other.
12. Employers with their own vendor agreements
If your company requires a vendor, supplier or recruitment services agreement before you can work with us, we will review and sign it in good faith. Where that agreement addresses payment terms, its payment terms control. For everything else, these Terms apply. If your policy bars us from sending any candidate materials without written approval, we will not send any until you give it and the agreement is signed.
13. Term and ending the relationship
These Terms start when you first accept them and continue until either of us ends them by written notice (email is enough). Ending them does not cancel Hire Fees for Candidates introduced before the end date, and Sections 4 to 7, 9, 10 and 14 to 16 continue to apply after the end date.
14. Disclaimers, limits on liability and indemnity
Disclaimer. The service and all Candidate information are provided "as is." DM&P disclaims all warranties not stated in these Terms, including warranties of fitness for a particular purpose and results.
Limit on liability. To the fullest extent the law allows, DM&P's total liability under these Terms is limited to the Hire Fees you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose. DM&P is not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages, or for lost profits, even if we were told they were possible.
Indemnity. You will defend and indemnify DM&P against third-party claims arising from your hiring decisions, your employment of a Candidate, or your breach of these Terms. [Attorney: consider a matching, limited indemnity from DM&P.]
15. Governing law and disputes
Texas law governs these Terms, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. We will first try to resolve any dispute through good-faith discussion for 30 days after written notice. If that does not work, the state and federal courts located in Travis County, Texas have exclusive jurisdiction, and each of us consents to them.
16. General
These Terms are the entire agreement on this subject unless we both sign a separate written agreement. We may update these Terms for future Introductions by posting a new version and emailing you, and the new version will not change Hire Fees for Candidates already introduced. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent, except to a successor that acquires substantially all your business. If any part is unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Electronic signatures and click-through acceptance are binding. Notices go by email to the addresses each of us gives the other.
17. Contact
Dedicated to the Mission & Purpose LLC, 2616 Salado Street, Unit 204, Austin, TX 78705. support@dedicatedmp.com · 512-710-5147 · dedicatedmp.com