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  Aberdeen Business School (ABS) comprises 3 departments, Management, Accounting and Finance and People, Organisations and Practice.

  At undergraduate level students study can study BA and BA (Hons) in various Management related areas, or BSc Accounting.

  At Postgraduate level prospective students have the choice of studying a variety of Degree courses including an AMBA accredited MBA which also has various specialist routes.  A range of specialist MSc courses is offered including International Business, Finance, Project Management, Human Resource Management and Purchasing and Supply Chain Management.

  A feature of study at the Aberdeen Business School is that the majority of our Degree courses carry Professional Practitioner Accreditation, for example, the HRM course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

  Prospective students interested in undertaking a Postgraduate Degree, but who may not have a previous degree, may achieve entry to their selected course by completing the Graduate Certificate in Management Studies.  The Aberdeen Business School is also developing its business in the delivery of Corporate Programmes and has a growing reputation in Research.

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Aberdeen Business School (ABS) comprises 3 departments, Management, Accounting and Finance and People, Organisations and Practice.
At undergraduate level students study can study BA and BA (Hons) in various Management related areas, or BSc Accounting.
At Postgraduate level prospective students have the choice of studying a variety of Degree courses including an AMBA accredited MBA which also has various specialist routes.  A range of specialist MSc courses is offered including International Business, Finance, Project Management, Human Resource Management and Purchasing and Supply Chain Management.
A feature of study at the Aberdeen Business School is that the majority of our Degree courses carry Professional Practitioner Accreditation, for example, the HRM course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Prospective students interested in undertaking a Postgraduate Degree, but who may not have a previous degree, may achieve entry to their selected course by completing the Graduate Certificate in Management Studies.  The Aberdeen Business School is also developing its business in the delivery of Corporate Programmes and has a growing reputation in Research.
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  Mattioli Woods is a leading provider of employee benefits and wealth management services.

  • Over 500 staff
  • Take care of over £7.5 billion of our clients’ assets
  • Nine locations across the UK

  The Mattioli Woods employee benefits team deliver benefit solutions to help our clients maximise employee engagement, thereby increasing productivity and profitability and leading to improved employee attraction, retention and motivation:

  • Flexible benefits – Create and Flexi: our employee benefits portals for all sizes of business, employee engagement, total reward statements, employee discounts
  • Pensions and workplace savings – pensions, group SIPP
  • Employee health and wellbeing – financial education, executive financial counselling, healthcare, risk benefits
  • Specialist services – mergers and acquisitions, international

  Our wealth management clients come from many walks of life – professionals, owner-managers, senior executives and retired people.  Our clients are confident in the advice we give and know that our strategies will be administered quickly and efficiently.  We are widely recognised as a market leader in self-administered and self-invested pension arrangements.

  The key difference between Mattioli Woods and many of our larger competitors is our hands-on tailored approach to financial advice.  There is a genuine focus on providing the highest level of personal advice and maintaining close relationships with all clients, which has led to high levels of satisfaction, retention and referrals.

  Our clients expect a high-quality service and expert, innovative and proactive advice, bespoke to their circumstances – and delivered personally.  Communication is central to everything we do. We will make sure you understand and feel comfortable with what we are doing, when we are doing it and why.

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Mattioli Woods is a leading provider of employee benefits and wealth management services.
• Over 500 staff
• Take care of over £7.5 billion of our clients’ assets
• Nine locations across the UK
The Mattioli Woods employee benefits team deliver benefit solutions to help our clients maximise employee engagement, thereby increasing productivity and profitability and leading to improved employee attraction, retention and motivation:
• Flexible benefits – Create and Flexi: our employee benefits portals for all sizes of business, employee engagement, total reward statements, employee discounts
• Pensions and workplace savings – pensions, group SIPP
• Employee health and wellbeing – financial education, executive financial counselling, healthcare, risk benefits
• Specialist services – mergers and acquisitions, international
Our wealth management clients come from many walks of life – professionals, owner-managers, senior executives and retired people.  Our clients are confident in the advice we give and know that our strategies will be administered quickly and efficiently.  We are widely recognised as a market leader in self-administered and self-invested pension arrangements.
The key difference between Mattioli Woods and many of our larger competitors is our hands-on tailored approach to financial advice.  There is a genuine focus on providing the highest level of personal advice and maintaining close relationships with all clients, which has led to high levels of satisfaction, retention and referrals.
Our clients expect a high-quality service and expert, innovative and proactive advice, bespoke to their circumstances – and delivered personally.  Communication is central to everything we do. We will make sure you understand and feel comfortable with what we are doing, when we are doing it and why.
Visit Mattioli Woods website
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  Our innovative employment lawyers can help you navigate the maze of regulations that you have to contend with, and enhance your understanding of how they affect your business. We have 350+ employment lawyers globally, making us one of the largest employment teams in Europe. In the UK alone, we have a team of 10 partners supported by more than 40 lawyers across six locations. As well as the ‘day-to-day’ support we offer HR and in-house legal teams, we advise clients on highly technical employment matters.

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Our innovative employment lawyers can help you navigate the maze of regulations that you have to contend with, and enhance your understanding of how they affect your business. We have 350+ employment lawyers globally, making us one of the largest employment teams in Europe. In the UK alone, we have a team of 10 partners supported by more than 40 lawyers across six locations. As well as the ‘day-to-day’ support we offer HR and in-house legal teams, we advise clients on highly technical employment matters.
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  activpayroll is a leading global professional service organisation, offering integrated global payroll solutions, expatriate taxation services and online HR people management tools to over 1,000 customers operating in more than 140 countries worldwide. The company was founded in 2001 by CEO Alison Sellar in Aberdeen and is an SSAE 16 & ISAE 3402 Type II approved organisation holding the highest level of BACS accreditation available. Over the past 16 years, activpayroll has gone from a small local firm to an award-winning international leader servicing some of the world’s leading brands, growing organically through recommendation and without a sales team.

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activpayroll is a leading global professional service organisation, offering integrated global payroll solutions, expatriate taxation services and online HR people management tools to over 1,000 customers operating in more than 140 countries worldwide. The company was founded in 2001 by CEO Alison Sellar in Aberdeen and is an SSAE 16 & ISAE 3402 Type II approved organisation holding the highest level of BACS accreditation available. Over the past 16 years, activpayroll has gone from a small local firm to an award-winning international leader servicing some of the world’s leading brands, growing organically through recommendation and without a sales team.
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  Petrofac is a leading services provider to the oil and gas production and processing industry. Our teams design and build oil and gas infrastructure; operate, maintain and manage assets; and train personnel.

  We have a 36-year track record and are a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index, with 31 offices and 13,500 staff worldwide. We are a people business; we have a problem solving culture, clear values and strong leadership. Visit www.petrofac.com

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Petrofac is a leading services provider to the oil and gas production and processing industry. Our teams design and build oil and gas infrastructure; operate, maintain and manage assets; and train personnel.
We have a 36-year track record and are a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index, with 31 offices and 13,500 staff worldwide. We are a people business; we have a problem solving culture, clear values and strong leadership. Visit www.petrofac.com
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  Wood is a global leader in the delivery of project, engineering and technical services to energy and industrial markets. We operate in more than 60 countries, employing around 55,000 people, with revenues of over $11 billion. We provide performance-driven solutions throughout the asset life cycle, from concept to decommissioning across a broad range of industrial markets including upstream, midstream and downstream oil & gas, chemicals, environment and infrastructure, power & process, clean energy, mining, nuclear and general industrial sectors. We strive to be the best technical services company to work with, work for and invest in.

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Wood is a global leader in the delivery of project, engineering and technical services to energy and industrial markets. We operate in more than 60 countries, employing around 55,000 people, with revenues of over $11 billion. We provide performance-driven solutions throughout the asset life cycle, from concept to decommissioning across a broad range of industrial markets including upstream, midstream and downstream oil & gas, chemicals, environment and infrastructure, power & process, clean energy, mining, nuclear and general industrial sectors. We strive to be the best technical services company to work with, work for and invest in.
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  “Delivering energy with passion and pride.

  Nexen is an exploration and production (E&P) company that responsibly explores for and produces oil and gas in Canada, the United States, South America, the UK North Sea and offshore West Africa.

  A wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC Limited, Nexen is truly global with unique opportunities for cross-cultural collaboration and growth. The various perspectives of our global experts and diverse employee base help us innovate in ways that make our industry safer, cleaner, more efficient and able to overcome hurdles with greater ease.”

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“Delivering energy with passion and pride.
Nexen is an exploration and production (E&P) company that responsibly explores for and produces oil and gas in Canada, the United States, South America, the UK North Sea and offshore West Africa.
A wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC Limited, Nexen is truly global with unique opportunities for cross-cultural collaboration and growth. The various perspectives of our global experts and diverse employee base help us innovate in ways that make our industry safer, cleaner, more efficient and able to overcome hurdles with greater ease.”
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  Orion Group is an international leader in the provision of personnel to a number of industry sectors.  Today Orion Group manages the placement of thousands of contractors and permanent personnel every year via their worldwide network of offices throughout Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa.  Orion has the market intelligence and the experience necessary to take a holistic approach to project delivery managing manpower provision from start to finish.

   

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Orion Group is an international leader in the provision of personnel to a number of industry sectors.  Today Orion Group manages the placement of thousands of contractors and permanent personnel every year via their worldwide network of offices throughout Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa.  Orion has the market intelligence and the experience necessary to take a holistic approach to project delivery managing manpower provision from start to finish.
 
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  TAQA is committed to a safe and successful future in the UK North Sea.

  The UK business is a wholly owned subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Energy Company, an international energy and water company headquartered in Abu Dhabi.  Since acquiring its first North Sea interests in 2007, TAQA has created a business which is now ranked amongst the top exploration and production companies in the UK North Sea.

  We are pleased once again to lend our support to the cHeRries awards in 2018.  Year after year some of the greatest achievements in the fields of human resources, recruitment and training in the North East of Scotland are shared at the cHeRries.  It is important that we continue to recognise and celebrate the successes of the individuals and teams that are going above and beyond and achieving great things in their respective fields.

  TAQA. We mean energy.

  www.taqaglobal.com

   

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TAQA is committed to a safe and successful future in the UK North Sea.
The UK business is a wholly owned subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Energy Company, an international energy and water company headquartered in Abu Dhabi.  Since acquiring its first North Sea interests in 2007, TAQA has created a business which is now ranked amongst the top exploration and production companies in the UK North Sea.
We are pleased once again to lend our support to the cHeRries awards in 2018.  Year after year some of the greatest achievements in the fields of human resources, recruitment and training in the North East of Scotland are shared at the cHeRries.  It is important that we continue to recognise and celebrate the successes of the individuals and teams that are going above and beyond and achieving great things in their respective fields.
TAQA. We mean energy.
www.taqaglobal.com
 
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  CIPD Scotland has more than 11,000 CIPD members across Scotland, we sit at the heart of a proud, growing community of practitioners, members, partners, policymakers and thought leaders in the world of work. Through our collaborative efforts we’ll take big steps towards championing better work and working lives. 

  We are ideally placed to support organisations and to build HR capability within organisations of all sizes and are proud to work with employers across the public, private and third sector.

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CIPD Scotland has more than 11,000 CIPD members across Scotland, we sit at the heart of a proud, growing community of practitioners, members, partners, policymakers and thought leaders in the world of work. Through our collaborative efforts we’ll take big steps towards championing better work and working lives. 
We are ideally placed to support organisations and to build HR capability within organisations of all sizes and are proud to work with employers across the public, private and third sector.
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  Peterson offers a comprehensive range of safe, reliable and value-added logistics solutions to the energy industry globally and has a strong track record in optimising integrated supply base and logistics operations. Established in 1920, the organisation has expanded throughout the UK with facilities at a number of prominent ports including Aberdeen. Peterson employs 4,000 people globally and is part of a wider group operating in over 70 countries worldwide.

   

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Peterson offers a comprehensive range of safe, reliable and value-added logistics solutions to the energy industry globally and has a strong track record in optimising integrated supply base and logistics operations. Established in 1920, the organisation has expanded throughout the UK with facilities at a number of prominent ports including Aberdeen. Peterson employs 4,000 people globally and is part of a wider group operating in over 70 countries worldwide.
 
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  Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) is home to the BHGE Arena, established in 1985 and sits as the North of Scotland’s largest conference, arena and exhibition centre. Our range of events varies, from large exhibitions and conferences, live entertainment, small to large meetings and banqueting events. The current venue is a multi-purpose space capable of hosting conferences of up to 2000, banqueting events up to 1,400, an arena capacity of up to 8,500 all standing.

  In 2019 the new purpose built, state-of-the-art venue will open its doors. The new venue will be more accessible offering larger spaces for events including an arena capable of a 12,500 capacity. The site will include a 200 bed, 4-star Hampton by Hilton Hotel connecting direct to the venue on the ground and concourse level and further to this will be another two hotels providing an additional 300 bedrooms on-site.

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Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) is home to the BHGE Arena, established in 1985 and sits as the North of Scotland’s largest conference, arena and exhibition centre. Our range of events varies, from large exhibitions and conferences, live entertainment, small to large meetings and banqueting events. The current venue is a multi-purpose space capable of hosting conferences of up to 2000, banqueting events up to 1,400, an arena capacity of up to 8,500 all standing.
In 2019 the new purpose built, state-of-the-art venue will open its doors. The new venue will be more accessible offering larger spaces for events including an arena capable of a 12,500 capacity. The site will include a 200 bed, 4-star Hampton by Hilton Hotel connecting direct to the venue on the ground and concourse level and further to this will be another two hotels providing an additional 300 bedrooms on-site.
Visit AECC website