Businesses engage with music students in miscellaneous, ever-evolving ways. This begs the question of how we come up with engagement models that can work brilliantly for students and satiate industry’s demands, but without requiring a change of curriculum every year or two years. One approach is to have a very flexible offer: several models we can sell simply and quickly, embedded in multiple different modules, across all three years – then tweak the mix as we go. In this academic exchange, I will share some stories about successful industry partnerships with UoG music students over the past three years, discuss the negotiations behind them and argue the benefits of flexible rather than fixed models of employer engagement, on principle.