Tell us about the company, its history, and where it is now.
White Rabbit Skincare is a luxury, eco-friendly and award-winning skincare brand based out of Kilmarnock and the West of Scotland. We never include animal-derived ingredients, parabens, SLS, silicones, mineral oils, artificial fragrances, artificial colours, or ingredients containing EDTA or phthalates in our products.
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We make all our products exclusively by hand in small batches to ensure freshness and quality, harnessing the therapeutic aspect of essential oils, base oils, butters and waxes, to help to soothe and nourish your skin.
How did you hear about AAI, and what the process was like?
We found out about Adopt an Intern after winning the Young EDGE Award at the Scottish EDGE finals in 2017 where AAI were one of the partner-organisations.
They were really easy to work with great communication and a very effective service and they found us our Marketing & Business Development Assistant, Lucy, who came to work with us at the end of last year.
How has your intern benefitted the business and what surprised you most about them?
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As an intern, Lucy was absolutely amazing. She completely transformed not only our brand image, but also took the initiative to do things like update the website design at no extra cost to me, which is obviously greatly appreciated!
She developed our brand packs to send to potential partner companies we may be working with, as well as wholesale information packs, and loads of other things that I hadn’t thought about doing.
Because she could think outside the box and look at things from the outside in, she just made such a difference.
What would you say to other employers about using graduate internships to find talent?
Do not discount internships. Just because you might think someone doesn’t have years of experience or that they’ve just come out of university or college, it doesn’t mean that they can’t develop ‘on the job’ experience.
When I now think of Lucy, I now think I would definitely take on more interns. Not only does it benefit you as a company, but it also means you’re helping someone else develop and grow their own personal skillsets.
Anything else?
I don’t think so, just a MASSIVE ‘thank you’ to Adopt an Intern for making the employment and intern process so seamless, so easy, so stress-free and I would definitely recommend them.
