A presentation to Abertay University Business Studies students covering business in Dundee, Scotland and the Global marketplace, and how the students can consider how they fit in & how they will win a position in the best role for them.

1. Alison Henderson
Innovation for Global Growth 2015
www.dundeeandanguschamber.co.uk @dundeeandangus @alisonhendo

2. Dundee, Scotland…and beyond
 Business landscape
 Opportunities
 New Scottish businesses up to a record 30,263,
a 19% increase on the 2012 figure.
 More than 335,000 businesses now active in
Scotland, the highest total since records began.
@dundeeandangus @alisonhendo

3. @dundeeandangus @alisonhendo
Dundee:
 Key employment sectors:
 Human health & social work
 Wholesale & retail
 Education
 Growing sectors:
 Arts & culture
 Professional, scientific, technical

4. @dundeeandangus @alisonhendo
Dundee
 Earnings (median, weekly, April 2013):
 Dundee £493
 Scotland £508
 UK £517
 Geographically accessible
 Vibrant & ambitious
 Enterprising
"Dundee's setting is
probably more
extraordinary than any
other city in the UK. It is
about as ideal -
ludicrously ideal - as any
setting could be”
Stephen Fry

5. Inward investors:
 Malmaison
 Hilton
 Sleeperz
 expansion at Apex
 Project Pie
@dundeeandangus @alisonhendo
The Guggenheim effect: largest sector to benefit in Bilbao is Business Services & Support

6. Global players:
 Insights
 STAR Dundee
 Johnson Matthey Battery Systems
 Tokheim
 WL Gore
@dundeeandangus @alisonhendo

7. Dundee & Angus Chamber of
Commerce
 What
 Who
 Where
 Why
 Wider network (SCC, BCC)
@dundeeandangus @alisonhendo

8. My Journey
 History
 My own business
 Where I am now
 2020 vision
@dundeeandangus @alisonhendo

9.  Getting in the door:
 Get experience, build a network
 Working in a team:
 Know yourself
 Understand others around you
 Learn how to work with others
@dundeeandangus @alisonhendo
Where do you fit in

10.  Have a personal development plan
 Never stop learning
 Curate & share content
 Create content of your own & share it
 Pay it forward
@dundeeandangus @alisonhendo
Take responsibility for your own
development