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Employer Success Stories

Since 2010, more than 1000 organisations across Scotland have used ScotGrad to place skilled students and graduates to deliver projects for their business. Here's a selection of success stories from some of those employers.

Click on the success stories below to find out more about other employers’ experiences with students and graduates:

  • Blazing Griffin

    Blazing Griffin

    Blazing Griffin, an independent digital entertainment company with bases in Edinburgh and Glasgow, took on a current post-graduate student to complete an essential, internationally themed project. The company told us about the amazing impact Yibei Wang had when undertaking her role, and how her input helped them grow. This placement was also ScotGrad's first under the new International Business Explorer initiative.

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  • Labels4Kids

    Labels4Kids

    When you want to make waves in the French market, it certainly pays to have a French-speaking graduate to lead the way, as Ann-Maree Morrison soon discovered.

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    Harris Tweed Hebrides

    Harris Tweed Hebrides is one of Scotland's success stories, and after employing Ruth Macdonald fresh from Glasgow Caledonian University, on a 12 month marketing project, the brand is reaching out to even more worldwide customers. Margaret A Macleod explains.

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  • GT Biologics

    GT Biologics

    GT Biologics employed Katrina Lawrie, an MBA graduate from the University of Aberdeen, as a business manager on a 12-month placement. Professor Denise Kelly talks about the experience.

    View full story about GT Biologics
  • Allan MacIntyre

    Forth Dimension Displays

    With two major trade shows coming up and an exciting new product development to be showcased, Ursula Posch, Marketing and Communications Manager at Forth Dimension Displays, explains how graduate Gavin Moffat made a difference.

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  • Aberdeen Foyer

    Stormcats Limited

    With an exciting new product taking them into a new market, a graduate placement proved to be not just useful, but lucrative too. Managing director Angus Newman tells the story.

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