Learn more about how to expand your internship and work-based learning opportunities for higher education students throughout the Commonwealth.

The Emplolyer Readiness Toolkit provides:

• Information and key resources to employers as they consider implementing work-based learning opportunities.
• Helps employers with their readiness for interns to ensure quality of the experience for students, institutions, and businesses.

Learn more about how to expand your internships and work-based learning opportunities for higher education students throughout the Commonwealth.

The free courses for employers, students and Career Champions provide: 

• Information on how to host a successful internship program at your organization.
• Help college students preparing for or currently participating in an internship.
• Key resources and information to faculty, staff, and educators to develop their skills to become career champions for current and future students.

V-TOP has developed a video series featuring business leaders and human resources professionals designed to help both students and employers learn more about the benefits of an internship program and current best practices.

For employers, these videos focus on how to start or expand an existing program, what makes a successful internship program, and the impact interns can make.

Internship Resource Video Series

Staffing Agency Services for the Recruitment and Placement of Interns. Virginia Talent and Opportunity Partnership (V-TOP) is committed to expanding the number of paid and credit-bearing internships and other work-based learning opportunities throughout the state in collaboration with Virginia employers. One way to help expand internship opportunities is by supporting small to midsize employers with their recruitment and hiring needs. Therefore, V-TOP has acquired the assistance of a staffing agency, iQuasar, to help connect employers with students across the Commonwealth. V-TOP considers small to midsize employers to include 250 or fewer employees. Additional services may apply for employers who have 150 or fewer employees.

JMU's Center for Global Engagment and the University Career Center have created a guide to help US employers hire international students. There are many resources included in this document to help walk an organization through step by step the ways to hire international students. 

Employers' Guide to Hire International Students

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has put together a Transgender Employer Toolkit to provide human resources and diversity and inclusion professionals with an overview of legal and other
issues, such as access to inclusive healthcare and barriers to employment, surrounding transgender inclusion, while outlining current best practices from leading U.S. companies today.

Transgender Employer Toolkit

To learn more about available resources and information on hiring veterans, please download the Employer Guide to Hiring Veterans (PDF) available from the U.S. Department of Labor. It will guide organizations to relevant offices and other organizations that will best serve the questions surrounds hiring veterans. You may also visit their website.

• Civilian-to-Military Occupation Translator: Identify relevant military experience by matching your civilian job opening to military careers that use similar skills.
• 10 Reasons To Hire Veterans
• Hiring Our Heroes
• Hire Military
• Vets2Industry
  

This DEI Scorecard is a wonderful resource that was created by Roderick Lewis from UNC Chapel Hill to help organization's evaluate their diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice efforts in four core perspectives:

• People & Inclusive Leadership Perspective;
• Retention & Advancement Perspective;
• Employer Branding & Recruitment Perspective; and
• Community & Social Impact Perspective.