 It's just over two weeks since the Scottish Parliament announced its apprenticeship programme. Today it hosted an open day for young people who want to be among the 20 apprentice workers who'll be coming aboard here over the next four years. For the Parliament it's about playing a part in job creation for the young, but it's also about building a new generation of parliamentary staff. Many young people are finding it difficult to get a foothold onto the labour market, so we've invited people today to talk through our apprenticeship programme, to introduce them to our country's apprentices and to find out the jobs that we're on offer. It's important to the Parliament because we need to contribute to decreasing youth unemployment in Scotland. We also need to have a diverse workforce and so therefore to do that we need to invite more young people to apply for our jobs and the apprenticeship programme will help us do that. What surprised me the most was just like the amount of stalls that they had and everything and all the people you had to talk to and the information it was giving as well as a workshop and small groups talking to a person. What's encouraged me most about applying is how keen these people are to make sure that you get the best apprenticeship. They're all so involving in you, you get to do great workshops, get to do great booths. It's really encouraging that you have a future here. To find out if I would be able to apply because work and taking a place within the Parliament just sounded really really great and it was a great opportunity for all the young people. And I've spoken to some of the people here at the stalls which is quite good and quite informative and I've done risk management so I spoke to someone in my field as well along who's doing the good information regarding our jobs. Today the friendliness of the staff has been absolutely fantastic. It's made me want to work for a place like this. We're right at the start of the process so anyone who's wanting to apply for the programme has plenty of time to do so. Our application is open today and they're closed on the 7th so don't worry if you can't attend today. All of our resources and information from today will be on our website. We're really pushing all information through social media so follow us on Twitter and Facebook.