Opening Doors for Work
Toll Free (877) 246-9675
1595 West 500 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84104
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Just for Business! Employer Workshop!
Mar 13, 2012 at 9:00AM
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Work Ability Career Preparation & Job Fair
Apr 10, 2012 at 10:00AM
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Statewide Transition Conference - Day 1
Apr 19, 2012
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Statewide Transition Conference - Day 2
Apr 20, 2012

Website Resources
- 3 Smart Cubes: A variety of free tests you can take online.
- Age Appropriate Transition Assistance Guide: Ongoing process of collecting data on the individual's needs, preferences, and interests as they relate to the demands of current and future working, educational, living, and personal and social environments.
- Career Assessment Worksheet (PDF): This activity may help you to identify patterns and preferences in your interests and activities.
- Career-Intelligence.com: Stop wasting time in the wrong career. You'll stop working for a living when you find you love a job. Do an assessment of your career today.
- Careers: Deciding what you want to do with your life can be overwhelming. Going to college, enrolling in career and technical training, taking a great job, or starting your own business are all possibilities. Whether you're investigating careers, exploring education and training, or looking for a job, this website has tools and information to help you make informed decisions.
- Careers.Utah.Gov: Utah's career connection. Free inventory to see how you learn best and process information.
- Casey Life Skills: Here you will find free and easy to use tools to help young people prepare for adulthood.
- CITE Academic Learning Styles (doc) (pdf): Free on-line inventory to see how you learn best and process information.
- DWS (Department of Workforce Services): Provide employment and support services for our customers to improve their economic opportunities.
- Holland's Six Personality Types: According to John Holland's theory, most people are one of six personality types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.
- Just For Youth: Look into employment, just for youth.
- Learning Styles Assessment: Free on-line inventory to better understand how you prefer to learn and process information.
- Library Support Staff.com: Provides links to free and for fee based tests for personality, careers, fun, and articles about different tests and what they evaluate.
- Myers & Briggs Foundation: Talks about the different personality types tested by the Myers & Briggs and how they are structured, put into categories, and into 16 different types of personality.
- NSTTAC (National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center): Help meet the school to post-secondary settings transition and indicator 13 needs of teachers, professionals and families.
- NCLD - Assessing Interest/Abilities: Taking a closer look at your interests and abilities can help you make better choices whenever you're faced with big decisions regarding the future. Before setting your goals, it's a good idea to think about what you enjoy doing most, what you're good at, and how challenges that lie ahead might impact your future.
- O*Net OnLine: Serves as the nation's primary source of occupational information, providing comprehensive information on key attributes and characteristics of workers and occupations.
- Personality Tests: These resources are of value for those who want to learn about themselves.
- Red Rocks Community College: Provides a free on-line inventory to better understand how you prefer to learn and process information.
- Utah Mentor and Choices: The new home for all your Choices products including: Choices Explorer and Choices Planner.
- Utah State Office of Education (USOE) - Assessments: We serve the public by providing measurable information about Utah students’ core knowledge, skills, and abilities; acquired through high quality valid and reliable assessments.
- Vocational Information Center: Career Development and Guidance: Worksheets, Handouts and Workbooks.
- Workplace Values Exercise: Workplace Values Assessment: Do You Know the Work Values You Most Want in a Job and an Employer - and Does Your Current Employment Reflect Those Values? A Quintessential Careers Quiz.