The Veterans workstream functions as a conduit for the Savings and Investment Industry to attract, develop, support and retain highly skilled ex-military personnel.
Our industry is not capitalising on the opportunity to hire talented and committed veterans. Our aim is to help employers recognise the valuable, highly transferable skills veterans possess and support veteran employees in understanding how they can thrive in the Investment and Savings Industry.
Our 2023 objectives are:
- New Ways of Working: to support and promote the DP objectives so that financial industry organisations will better reflect society at large through recruitment of diverse talent, and to help DP member firms, and the industry as a whole, to understand why hiring veterans and accessing the veteran talent pool makes great business sense through events and forums
- Measurement and Accountability: to encourage all member organisations to show their active support for hiring veterans by signing the Armed Forces Covenant (AFC). We would like at least 50% of Diversity Project Members to have signed the AFC by the end of 2023.
- Intersectionality: to work alongside the City Veterans Networks, the Forces Employment Charity, the MOD Civic Engagement Teams and other DP member organisations to share best practices and provide support for veteran hiring initiatives.
To see our full Military Veterans aims and objectives, please click here
