Supporting Partners
In addition to financial awards, all Scottish EDGE winners and finalists will be enrolled into the EDGE Alumni programme, where they get access to events, peer to peer learning and training to enhance their skills and grow their network.
Packages of support vary in each round. What remains consistent, however, is that every winner and finalist has access to free, or generously discounted, support from our leading partner organisations.
Each package is exclusively tailored to suit the needs of start-up businesses in Scotland, and combined offer all-encompassing support across key industries, such as; accounting, insurance, legal and creative.
We are enormously grateful to the following businesses for supporting Scotland’s future entrepreneurs through their EDGE partnership:
Founding Partners
The Hunter Foundation
The Hunter Foundation (THF) is a proactive venture philanthropy that seeks to invest in determining model solutions, in partnership with others, to troubling systemic issues relating to poverty reduction and educational enablement.
Royal Bank of Scotland
Established in 1727, Royal Bank of Scotland has been at the heart of Scottish business for nearly 300 years. Today we support one in three businesses across the country at every stage, scale and sector.
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Powering Scottish businesses to Start, Scale and Succeed #PowerUp
The Royal Bank of Scotland Accelerator supports and empowers UK entrepreneurs and business owners to scale their businesses to the next level.
Through our six-month fully funded Accelerator programme we provide wrap-around support and access to expertise, removing barriers and providing more opportunities to help businesses grow.
We focus on the key driver of any business – you.
With the right level of support and challenge, we could help you to take your business much further and faster through our four pillars of support:
Coaching
You’ll be supported by a dedicated Acceleration Manager, helping to develop both you and your business, overcome challenges and move your business forward.
Community
Join a vibrant community of like-minded entrepreneurs through our virtual network and make use of free co-working spaces across the UK.
Network
As the biggest bank for business in the UK, our experienced Ecosystem Managers are here to connect you to the unrivalled partner and mentor network across the UK, at the right time for you and your business.
Thought Leadership
Focussed on your needs as an entrepreneur, our programme of thought leadership and content could support your acceleration.
Our specialist programme provides:
Six months focused support with access to mentors, partners and experienced entrepreneurs
One-to-one coaching with our experienced Acceleration Managers
A programme of thought leadership and events
Access to a network of like-minded peers, supported by our Ecosystem Managers
Use of our modern co-working spaces in one of our nationwide hubs
Please register your interest here.
Royal Bank Business Builder
This programme provides access to a bespoke digital learning platform, virtual workshops and an online community, creating a robust, ever-growing holistic source of business and personal development tools and guidance, tailored to support a wide range of industries and experience levels.
Support to become more sustainable
We’re here to support your business and climate goals as we all make a transition to a low carbon economy. Adopting green practices is crucial to tackling climate change, and it can also help your business be more efficient and gain positive recognition from customer and investors.
Contact: accelerator@rbs.com
Scottish Enterprise
Scottish Enterprise is Scotland’s national economic development agency. We work with partners in the public and private sector to grow the Scottish economy for the benefit of all, helping to create more quality jobs and a brighter future for every region.
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Scotland’s business advice, support and funding agency
Our specialist advisers can help you overcome day-to-day challenges, enhance your business practices, or explore new markets and opportunities to grow and scale your company.
We offer a wide range of business development, advice & grant funding, including:
Intellectual Property Support - If you’re looking to better understand your rights and the steps you can take to protect and commercialise your IP, our experts can support you.
Financial Readiness Support - Our financial readiness experts can offer support and advice and can help you access a range of funding, including bank funding, equity funding, loan funding and grants.
Innovation Support - Need help refining your new product or service concepts to be more competitive and profitable? From designing your innovation strategy to launching your creations to market - we’ve got it covered.
EFRS – Enquiry & Research Service
Domestic and International, Source new customers and suppliers
Independent market insights & Investor information
Workplace Innovation Support - Taking a new approach to your staff and their workspace can drive employee engagement, helping your business adapt and grow. Our workplace innovation service can guide you towards support and helpful digital resources.
Export preparedness & Ecommerce - Whether you’re completely new to exporting, have plans in their early stages or have been exporting for some time, we’re here to help you put everything in place.
Productivity improvements & Sustainability - developing sustainable business practices will minimise the environmental impacts of your business, protect your business from risks and help you build business resilience.
Digital Transformation –we provide support in cyber security planning, data analytics, Industry 4.0 solutions and more.
Entrepreneurial Support – we provide access to a range of programmes and events to support the development of skills to develop and scale your business. We can also signpost to other relevant resources and support organisations.
Contact (Phone): 0300 013 3385
Website: scottish-enterprise.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/scottish-enterprise
Twitter: twitter.com/scotent
Scottish Government
The Scottish Government is the devolved government for Scotland and has a range of responsibilities that include: the economy, education, health, justice, rural affairs, housing, environment, equal opportunities, consumer advocacy and advice, transport and taxation.
Special Award Partners
Creative UK
We believe in the power of creativity and the creative industries to change lives, placing creativity at the heart of the UK’s culture, economy and education system. Our goal is simple: to cultivate a world where creativity is championed, valued, and fundamentally nurtured.
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We connect, we invest, we support and we champion brilliance – fighting for the opportunity for all to thrive creatively
We unite the creative industries and generate opportunities for innovation to thrive by investing in creative people and businesses. We’re here to harness the power of the creative sector to build a stronger, fairer, and more prosperous future.
Our values
The core values behind our founding organisations remain constant. The key to our success is through these values and they are woven into the fabric of our culture.
Everything we do is rooted in this people-centric, future-forward philosophy. Our values steer the way we work; how we do things is just as important as what we do.
Contact: info@wearecreative.uk
Website: www.wearecreative.uk
STV
Welcome to STV. We provide marketing and advertising solutions that help you reach Scottish consumers and grow your business. Last year 4.5 million people in Scotland watched STV and 2.2 million used the STV Player.
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We are proud to support the business and the entrepreneurial communities in Scotland and are committed to supporting businesses of all shapes and sizes.
At STV we are open for Scottish business. Since our successful Growth Fund launched two years ago, we have worked with over 250 Scottish businesses. We have provided over £10m of funding to make TV advertising more accessible for businesses of all sizes.
From retailers and home improvements services, to leisure and ecommerce businesses, our members have achieved success. A massive 91% of members saw an increase in awareness after their campaign, over half have already seen an increase in profit and 75% of those saw a minimum increase of 20%.
More information on joining the STV Growth Fund, including a handy overview pack, is available at www.stvgrowthfund.tv. You will find information on how match funding works, case studies and feedback from our Growth Fund Members on their experiences.
Our solutions are bespoke, just like your objectives. Our team are delighted to chat and explore how we can support your business in reaching your goals. We work with you to connect your business with Scottish consumers delivering return on investment and results.
Sources: Growth Fund consumer research via ScotPulse, July 2019, 1,151 respondents. STV reach, Barb, Jan-Dec 2019, adults, 09.30 – 23.59. Ofcom research, trusted source 27th March – 19th April combined, TV channels only.
Contact: jules.mckim@stv.tv
Website: www.stvgrowthfund.tv
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stv-group-plc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/stvcommercial
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/STVCommercial
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stvcommercial
Postcode Innovation Trust
Postcode Innovation Trust operates its own society lottery and receives all of its funding from the players of People's Postcode Lottery.
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Awarding funds thanks to players of People's Postcode Lottery
Postcode Innovation Trust was established to support charities working in the following areas:
The advancement of health
The advancement of environmental protection, improvement and sustainability
The prevention or relief of poverty
The advancement of education
The advancement of citizenship or community development
The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
The advancement of public participation in sport
The promotion of equality and diversity
The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill -health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.
Website: www.postcodeinnovationtrust.org.uk/
Zero Waste Scotland
Zero Waste Scotland exists to lead Scotland to use products and resources responsibly, focusing on where we can have the greatest impact on climate change.
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A not-for-profit environmental organisation funded by Scottish Government
We exist to lead Scotland to use products and resources more responsibly, focusing on where we can have the greatest effect on reducing climate change together through responsible consumption, responsible production and maximising value through waste.
Using evidence and insight, our goal is to inform policy and motivate individuals and businesses to embrace the environmental, economic, and social benefits of a circular economy.
Website: www.zerowastescotland.org.uk
Gold Partner
Harper Macleod LLP
Harper Macleod is one of Scotland’s leading independent law firms, with offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness, Lerwick and Thurso. We provide a comprehensive range of legal services to businesses, organisations and individuals throughout Scotland and beyond.
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A different kind of law firm
We believe it’s all about you, not us. We put your needs at the heart of everything we do. Your success determines our success and because no two clients are the same to us, we’ll work harder than anyone else to understand your needs and objectives.
You need problem solvers and advisers, not just lawyers. Our inquisitive nature means you can be sure we’ll get under the skin of your business or personal related matter and provide you with an effective solution.
It’s this drive that sets us apart and delivers a better outcome for you.
As Legal Advisers to Scottish EDGE, we are delighted to play a key role in the competition.
Advising entrepreneurs and businesses
At Harper Macleod, we have vast experience of working with many of the country’s most exciting entrepreneurs, start-ups and scale-ups, and bring a wealth of knowledge to be able to support and advise those businesses taking part in Scottish EDGE and others like them.
We have a specialist team of lawyers dedicated to advising entrepreneurs and businesses at every stage of their life-cycle – from inception right through to realising your ambition, be that exit or global domination. It’s what we do.
Investments – we advised clients on investments totalling almost £300 million over the past two years alone.
Exits – we have advised clients on more than 160 exits over the past two years.
lntroductions – our contacts allow us to open doors and facilitate invaluable introductions.
We also have the benefit of being part of one of Scotland’s leading independent law firms, tapping into all the specialist knowledge you’ll need in your sector.
Contact: scotedge@harpermacleod.co.uk
Website: www.harpermacleod.co.uk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/harper-macleod-llp
Twitter: www.twitter.com/HarperMacleod
Facebook: www.facebook.com/harpermacleod
Silver Partner
i4 Product Design Ltd
i4PD is an employee-owned design and development firm with a 20-year track record of working with start-ups and multinationals to develop commercially successful products. Businesses utilise i4PD’s design and engineering expertise to accelerate challenging roadmaps and/or innovate a way past technical challenges. The i4PD team achieve this by augmenting the size and capabilities of a client’s internal team.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Products for the future
i4 Product Design is the largest integrated product design consultancy in Scotland. The company’s experienced engineers and creative design team work in partnership with clients throughout the product design and development process to ensure their future products aren’t just beautiful, they’re brilliant and resilient.
Experience
Having worked on over 1000 projects, the company’s electronics, software and mechanical teams have experience in a broad range of markets and across a variety of technologies. From smart appliances to complex medical devices, the company has the scale, processes and lab equipment to support companies throughout the development lifecycle.
Innovation
Typically, i4PD is either tasked with designing novel solutions through their design process or 'simply' incorporating the client’s core IP into a desirable and user-friendly form that's designed for manufacture. i4PD takes a straightforward and open approach to IP where anything created during a project is owned by the client.
Proven Process
Over the past 20 years, i4PD have honed their design process to ensure clients' projects start and finish in the best shape possible. The company have an ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 quality management system and dedicated Project Managers to complement the design and engineering expertise.
Flexibility
i4PD work with large brands and start-ups alike. Business at these ends of the spectrum face different challenges and typically approach developments in a different way. i4PD can structure support packages to suit the agile and financially constrained world of new business ventures. The company are well known by the various Angel Investment groups and VC funds. These relationships and understanding of the expectations of milestones is important when generating your development plan and the associated fund raising.
Contact: telliott@i4pd.co.uk
Website: www.i4pd.co.uk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/i4-product-design
Twitter: www.twitter.com/i4productdesign
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/i4pd
Bronze Partners
Johnston Carmichael
As Scotland’s go to accountancy firm for the country’s innovators, movers & shakers, the JC team bring a wealth of experience in supporting start-ups and scale-ups at all stages of their growth journey.
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A steady hand for your fast-moving business
At Johnston Carmichael, our experts are more than just accountants.
We immerse ourselves within the ecosystem and help entrepreneurs challenge the status-quo, identify opportunities for improvement, and achieve practical solutions to problems. With over 850 employees across our 14 locations in the UK, our specialist team has extensive experience in advising innovative companies: from helping them make smart business decisions, to efficiently raising finance, expanding globally, or achieving a successful exit. Our exceptional network means we can connect you with the right people at the right time; be that investors, funders, or like-minded entrepreneurs. We serve the UK’s leading businesses across a diverse range of sectors, and in fact many of our clients are alumni of Scottish EDGE.
Through our membership of Moore Global we support interests at home and around the world, with an international reach that allows us to service and advise companies looking to capitalise on opportunities overseas.
We’re also passionate about the communities in which we live and work, and aim to create an enduring impact through Corporate Social Responsibility and engagement in charity fundraising. Johnston Carmichael is recognised as an employer of choice, committed to investing in the next generation of businesses and advisers.
We offer a complimentary support package to all EDGE finalists & winners.
Contact: scottishedge@jcca.co.uk
Website: johnstoncarmichael.com/entrepreneurial-focus-new
LinkedIn: inkedin.com/company/johnston-carmichael-chartered-accountants-and-business-advisers
Twitter: twitter.com/JC_Accountants
Facebook: facebook.com/JohnstonCarmichael
Talent Spark
TalentSpark is a start-up recruitment specialist that supports businesses to grow from an idea in a bedroom to a global unicorn. Chat with our team today and start your journey.
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We are startup recruitment specialists
TalentSpark exists to help your business grow by finding the best people for your team. Our experts know the entrepreneurial landscape like no other.
Our reach, in terms of talented candidates, is global. However, our local networks ensure we have strong relationships with the finest homegrown expertise.
TalentSpark's partnership across the Scottish entrepreneurial landscape, including the country's angel syndicates, ensures we are the partner of choice for advisors across the country.
We have supported Scottish unicorns at every stage of their journey and helped university spin-outs find their first hires. Our specialists also operate at board level, placing Non-Exec Directors and Chairs or making introductions to advisors that can help in those embryonic stages.
We provide the latest research and insight into hiring practices and have teamed up with the best providers on the market to offer a seamless process for our customers.
It starts, as all good journeys do, with a plan. We will map out your hiring
requirements and help you plan and budget to make your team a reality.
Our partnerships are strong, so get in touch, and we will build your business together.
Contact: – ewan.anderson@edenscott.com / TalentSpark@edenscott.com
Website: – www.talentspark.scot
James Hallam
We are one of the UK’s leading independent brokers. We make it a priority to understand every detail of our clients’ businesses and work in partnership with you to provide a complete service. Our risk advice and insurance programmes are designed to protect you.
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A Winning EDGE
Our risk advice and insurance programmes are innovative and intelligent; designed to confidently protect your interests.
We have been providing Insurance Advice/Consultation and Risk Management to all Scottish EDGE finalists since Round 6 and are absolutely delighted to continue working with Scottish EDGE – it is a great privilege for us.
We appreciate that insurance is often the last thing on people’s mind, however, having the correct insurance policy in place can be the difference for businesses surviving or failing. We aim to take as much of the responsibility we can to help you understand how you can protect your business and have cover in place that you can rely on when it is needed. We cover many areas from Assets and Liability Protection to Management Liability, Employer Protection, Cyber and Crime – all of which can have a devastating impact on a business.
Contact: john.dougherty@jameshallam.co.uk
Website: jameshallam.co.uk
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/james-hallam-limited
Twitter: twitter.com/JamesHallamUK
Marks & Clerk
Marks & Clerk is recognised as one of the world’s leading specialists in intellectual property. A global network with over 800 people worldwide, it advises clients in a full range of sectors in all aspects of intellectual property – patents, trade marks, designs and copyright.
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Engineering growth with intellectual property
This includes obtaining protection worldwide, portfolio management, strategic advice, commercial advice, licensing, enforcement, due diligence, litigation, IP valuation and design consultancy.
Marks & Clerk has an expanding network of offices in the UK (eight locations), Luxembourg, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, and long-established relationships with other leading IP professionals around the world.
With advice on patents, trade marks, designs, domain names and more, we can help capture, protect and exploit your intellectual property. With eight offices in the UK, including three in Scotland,
Marks & Clerk Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys has over 240 IP practitioners worldwide and provides an internationally renowned prosecution and strategy service
Marks & Clerk Solicitors is one of the largest IP law firms in the UK and represents clients in dispute resolution, litigation and commercial matters
Marks & Clerk Consulting offers IP valuation and design consultancy services, which are complementary to Marks & Clerk’s mainstream legal and IP advisory offering
Contact: gcullen@marks-clerk.com
Website: www.marks-clerk.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/marks-&-clerk
Twitter: twitter.com/marksandclerk
Entry Partners
AAB People
AAB People is an HR consultancy with a strong track record in providing pragmatic and effective operational and strategic HR consultancy and employee relations support to a broad portfolio of clients. Founded in 2014, we have helped hundreds of entrepreneurial organisations to set up tailored HR frameworks and practices, and to build and develop strong teams.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
An AAB Group Company
We provide commercially focussed, pragmatic and effective HR advice and practical support to startup, SME, early stage, and investor-backed businesses including start-ups within Scotland’s leading Angel and Venture Capital investment portfolios, with experience working across all sectors, and our HR advice and knowledge is fully transferable.
We were very proud to be part of the first cohort of 20 values led, socially impactful businesses accepted onto the Unlocking Ambition Scottish Enterprise-backed programme for high growth, purpose-driven organisations. https://unlockingambition.scot/
In July 2021 Purpose HR was acquired by AAB, the tech-enabled business-critical services group, to provide our business with the support required to accelerate our growth plans. Read the full story here.
As a business owner who has also employed and grown her own small team, our Founder Lisa has strong engagement and understanding with small business owners, employer obligations and responsibilities, and navigating the challenges and benefits of building a strong, engaged team.
Why AAB People
We have a strong understanding and affinity with our market and our fit-for-purpose HR ‘Support as a Service’ offering perfectly meets the needs of SME, owner and founder managed, entrepreneurial organisations.
Our experienced team of qualified HR professionals build rapport and empathy with small business founders, and understand the practical challenges faced in employing and developing people effectively.
Our outputs and approach are designed to be pragmatic, effective and practically focused and do not generate unnecessary or bureaucratic structures and procedures.
Our delivery team encompass a wide range of experience across HR and employment law compliance, organisational development, recruitment and talent acquisition, learning and development and executive and management coaching specialisms.
We are a values-driven organisation and pride ourselves on working practices which demonstrate this. Trust, empathy and equality are at the heart of everything we do.
We are passionate about working with our amazing clients to develop inclusive, diverse and purpose-driven workplaces and cultures to enable their teams and businesses to thrive and grow.
As an AAB Group Company we have access to 340 business advisors and work together to deliver solutions for clients across the critical business areas of people and finance.
Contact: erin.rennie@aabpeople.com
Website: https://aabpeople.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aabpeople/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AABPeople
Strategic Scientific Consulting Ltd
SSC offers support to technologists, scientists and their start-ups to help them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are leading experts at commercialising innovative projects of all sizes. We have experience in a wide range of scientific and technical industries obtained at the coal face, which allows us to fully analyse your ideas and identify market openings and sales strategies.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Supporting your journey
SSC’s team have worked in research groups and survived the experience of creating start-ups several times over. We have also worked in grant funding bodies, in commercialisation teams and as sales reps. We have worked in energy, environment, pharma, biotech, and IT. We know the challenges inside out across a wide range of industries.
Experience
Our team includes PhD educated scientists and factory-floor apprenticed self-improvers. We each have over 25 years industry relevant experience and bring insight and problem-solving skills to every project we get involved in. SSC has worked with over 50 start-ups in UK and Finland and participated as founder in Cuantec and EcoCascade CIC both past winners of EDGE.
Innovation
SSC understands tech and science and what makes a good business idea. We can help you assess the depth and direction of your chosen markets and support you through product development to reach your goal of product in marketplace. We are innovators ourselves and are inspired by good ideas, especially when they are sustainable, zero waste and help to solve the climate emergency.
Past it forward
SSC believe in passing over our knowledge and skills. We seek to complement your own team, working alongside you to bring out the best knowledge and to transfer our skills along the way. We also have developed our own presentation, innovation and sales/business development skills courses specifically designed around the needs of boosting confidence in technologists.
Your Project, Your Way
SSC work with each client in a different way. Our goal is to assist you to success by filling the gaps in your skills and knowledge, being flexible in our approach to ensure you get the most benefit from what we can provide.
Contact: info@strategicscientific.com
Website: www.strategicscientific.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/strategic-scientific-consulting/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/StrategicScient
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com
Entrepreneurial Scotland
At Entrepreneurial Scotland, we are passionate about building belief and connections to accelerate people's growth, because their growth is Scotland's growth. We have over 20 years of experience supporting talented individuals at all stages of their leadership journey.
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Our vision is for Scotland to become the most entrepreneurial society in the world!
We aim to inspire, develop and connect Scotland’s current and future leaders to build the most entrepreneurial society in the world.
Entrepreneurial Scotland, formed through the coming together of the Entrepreneurial Exchange and the Saltire Foundation, combines a substantial group of talent with plentiful opportunities, where the organisation aims to inspire and develop Scotland’s people to build the most entrepreneurial society in the world.
With a fast-growing network reaching across Scotland and internationally, Entrepreneurial Scotland is inspiring, developing and connecting a diverse, talented and ambitious group of people who have the potential to change our economy and society.
Our Mission:
Entrepreneurial Scotland is a network of current and future entrepreneurial leaders worldwide, who are ambitious, globally minded and have the potential to be the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders who will contribute to Scotland’s success.
Contact: info@entrepreneurialscotland.com
Website: www.entrepreneurialscotland.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/entrepreneurial-scotland
Twitter: twitter.com/EntrepScot
Facebook: facebook.com/EntrepreneurialScotland
m3 Networks
At m3 Networks, we provide everything a business needs from an IT & cyber security partner. For 15 years we have delivered industry-leading IT support and services to customers across the UK. Over 150 business trust us as their technology partner.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Your complete IT & cyber security partner
Our goal is ensuring your business has the right IT in place to be successful. We’re cyber security experts too, which means we can help make sure your business is resilient to the latest threats, so you can sleep easy at night.
We can also help with connectivity, network infrastructure, Wi-Fi solutions, VoIP telephone systems as well as procurement of hardware.
Contact: hello@m3networks.co.uk
Website: www.m3networks.co.uk/
The Doctor is In
There are over 900 million people on LinkedIn. Your profile has to stand out from a lot of competition. Is it working as hard as you do?
ABOUT THE COMPANY
The Doctor is In
David Petherick has been writing LinkedIn profiles and consulting with organisations and individuals about LinkedIn since 2006. Described by the BBC as the world’s first Digital Biographer, he has worked with Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, UKTI, 24 Stories, Turtl, Halifax, SISU, IBM, Scottish EDGE, Deloitte, EBRD, BP and LetsGetChecked among many others.
He provides complete clarity to show people who you are. The problems you can solve. The value you add. The expertise only you can provide. To get you right to where you want to be.
Book a free, confidential call with Doctor David Petherick at https://doc.scot/edge
David will be happy to discuss:
✘ Lack of profile visitors
✘ Connection dysfunction
✘ Chronic engagement failure
✘ Company page flatlining
✘ Any other LinkedIn health problems
Book a treatment today…
Contact: david@doc.scot
Website: doc.scot
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidpetherick
Tweet: twitter.com/petherick
AAI Employability
Recruitment doesn’t have to be a dirty word. We do things differently because we believe you want something different. After all, finding your dream job, or your perfect candidate shouldn’t be complicated, and it doesn’t have to cost the earth.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Recruitment doesn’t have to be a dirty word. We do things differently because we believe you want something different.
After all, finding your dream job, or your perfect candidate shouldn’t be complicated, and it doesn’t have to cost the earth.
At AAI, our work is based on relationships, collaboration and an equality of opportunity. From ad hoc, short-term projects and covering maternity leave to permanent positions and graduate programmes, we’ve worked with everyone from government to glass-blowers, and we know the right hire at the right time is what makes a team thrive.
Large corporates love our diverse reach and transparent process. SMEs and startups love our efficiency and depth of promotion.
As a not-for-profit company with social mobility and inclusion at our core, our 2018 projects include boosting employability for minority ethnic women returners, breaking down barriers for disabled graduates, and our revamped mentoring service for jobseekers across the UK.
We’re a young company with a lot of stories behind us. Stories of businesses we’ve helped find their feet with the right hire at the right time. Stories of people who’ve found their purpose thanks to us opening the door. And we’re just getting started.
Let’s talk about your story.
Contact: team@adoptanintern.org.uk
Website: www.aai-talent.co.uk
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/aai-adopt-an-intern
Twitter: twitter.com/adoptanintern
Facebook: facebook.com/adoptanintern