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Show Mew career guide packed with advice to help adults A your job search on occupaavailable for use in planning tions that fit your personalyour careerthe new ediity. It increases the likelition of the Utah "Adult Cahood that you'll be successreer Guide." It's written for ful and happy in your work people who have finished and your life." Articles in the guide inhigh school and want to find caa good career or change clude helpful pointers on reers. changing careers, reboundPacked with helpful ading after being laid off, rehow vice on to assess your- entering the workforce afself (skills, personality, inter- ter being a ests), it show you how to mom, how to write a winmake a strategic plan for a ning resume and how to career that will meet your wow a potential employer in needs. interview. that The "backbone" of the The section on training "Adult Career Guide" is the lists all of Utah's public colCareer Chart. This compreleges and universities and hensive list of occupations applied technology centers. It gives advice on choosincludes the description, fuschool wages, outlook for the ing a ture and training required and on how to get a for each occupation listed. bachelor's degree for less It also tells which occupamoney and in less than four tions require a license in years. Financial aid options Utah. The Career Chart and sources are explained lists the occupations that too. A special section just for nearly 80 of working Utahns work in, making it women tackles the topics of an excellent overall source child care, balancing work of occupational information. with family obligations, comOne of the most interestmon mistakes women make in items the in marketing themselves to and ing helpful is on guide personality types. potential employers, workResearch has shown that ing mothers' guilt and legal people are happiest in their issues facing women in the work when they choose ocworkforce. The new edition of the cupations that "fit" their The "Adult Career Guide" Utah guide personality type. determine what on the DWS Web is now helps you is To see it, first go to your personality type and site. the Career Chart jobs.utah.gov, then under by personality "Quick Links" (on the right side of the screen) find Ecotype, making it easy to fonomic Information and click cus your occupational research on jobs that suit you. on "Publications." Then seConnie Blaine, editor and lected "Adult Career n contributing writer of the Guide" from the "Adult Career Guide" bemenu. The entire publication is on the Web, and all lieves knowing your personality type is an essential or parts of it can be printed piece of a successful career out from any computer plan. "Imagine you had to hooked up to the Internet wear one pair of shoes for and a printer. For a printed copy of the the next 30 years of your Wouldn't she life," guide, visit any DWS emsays. to shoes fit those want you ployment center. 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