The Scottish Financial Enterprise Young Professionals new Learn about Me series aims to highlight the different routes, variety of roles, and experiences of young professionals in the financial services industry. First up we hear from SFE YP Chair, Amy Paterson.

Amy has extensive experience supporting the development of young professionals in her community and promoting equal opportunities for those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and was recently awarded the Role Model of the Year award for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion by Barclays Scotland.

We are now accepting applications for the role of Chair for the Scottish Financial Enterprise Young Professionals

The YP network are seeking individuals to fill both the Workstream Lead and Workstream Contributor roles ahead of what will be a busy year for the network as they support SFE on achieving its broader strategic priorities.

We recently hosted an event for Earth Day on finance and the journey to net zero for our Young Professionals.

We’re delighted to share 9 tips with you for Career Confidence on the back of our SFE Young Professionals coffee morning we recently hosted, themed around our skills and inclusion aim.

When I was little I wanted to be an actress. Well, if I’m being honest, first I wanted to be a dolphin, then I wanted to be an actress.

As part of Neurodiversity Celebration week, we spoke to Olivia Embling, a trainee auditor at NatWest Group, about her experiences as a neurodivergent person working in the Financial Services industry.

It is Neurodiversity Celebration week and as such we wanted to take this opportunity to shine a light on what it means to be neurodiverse, the benefits of having neurodiverse teams and how we can all, in our own way, be allies and support our neurodiverse colleagues, friends and family.

It's the lead up to the 7th annual sustainability week (taking place on the week commencing 21 March), and sustainability and environment, social and governance (ESG) issues are a big focus for many young professionals in their personal and professional lives.

I was an intern at Standard Life through the Edinburgh Guarantee Scheme. I chose this as it was advertised as a job opportunity that was for young people that needed to catch a break.

My Apprenticeship was for becoming an Infrastructure Analyst at Origo and got me a qualification for a “Diploma for Information Technology and Telecommunications Professionals” at SCQF Level 8.

David Scott is a finalist for Apprentice Ambassador at this year's Scottish Apprenticeship Awards. This is what he had to tell us about his apprenticeship experience.

When I first joined abrdn I completed an apprenticeship in Business and Administration. The reason I chose this is because I wanted to continue my education whilst still being able to work.

Founded in the US in 1994 by Missouri high-school history teacher Rodney Wilson, LGBT+ History Month is a yearly event focussed on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements.

If you’re starting this article thinking that you don’t know anything about financial services; you’re wrong. All of us have a number of financial services products and use financial services on a day to day basis.

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Several themes were covered by our speakers including COVID recovery, diversity and inclusion and the focus on climate change, particularly in light of COP26.