Hiring an Intern: Connecting Business with Emerging Talent
Interns can offer new perspectives, knowledge, and techniques to address business challenges and projects. Looking to host an intern or build an internship program? The Virginia Talent + Opportunity Partnership (V-TOP) has several FREE resources to help you learn best practices and methods of building a program. Bonus! Small to mid-sized businesses may qualify for staffing agency services AND matching funds to off-set intern wages! Valley Internship Experience Workgroup (VIEW) Project Coordinator, Mary Sullivan can connect you with the high schools, colleges, and universities in the Shenandoah Valley region to find students for internships and other work-based learning opportunities.

Mary Sullivan - bio
Mary Sullivan has recently joined the Virginia Talent and Opportunity Partnership as a Project
Coordinator for the Shenandoah Valley region. Mary has over 25 years of experience in talent and
workforce development. Previously, she worked as the Corporate Training Director at Blue Ridge
Community College, the Training and Events Coordinator for the Shenandoah Valley Small Business
Development Center, and an Academic Advisor at Indiana University East in Richmond, Indiana.
Mary earned a B.A. in Psychology and a Graduate Certificate in Workforce Development from the
University of Virginia, and an M.S. in College Student Personnel from Western Illinois University.