Where do you look for work in Utah while you claim benefits?

Looking for work is part of every week you claim in Utah, so the search and the claim run on one clock. What the state offers for it costs nothing: a job bank, staffed centers, and paid routes into a different trade.

The state's own job bank

Utah's job bank has no product name to remember. The Department titles the page Job Seekers and calls the site jobs.utah.gov, and those are the words to search for.

It is more than a list of openings. Through it you can get free help polishing a resume, applying for a job, preparing for an interview, or connecting to training, and a Utah Jobs App puts the same search in your pocket if you would rather use a phone.

A claim adds one requirement on top of the searching. You are required to complete work registration with Workforce Services, and failing to register within 10 working days of your application for benefits could result in a denial of unemployment benefits. Registering means signing in at jobs.utah.gov, opening "my Unemployment," and choosing Register for Work, or registering online at your nearest Employment Center; a claimant who lives in or moves to another state instead registers with that state's own nearest employment center and sends proof of it to Workforce Services. Registration gets you more than a checked box: it opens access to the state's job openings and brings referrals to online, self-paced workshops aimed at getting you back to work. Starting a new claim, or reopening one, both mean doing the registration over again. Registration is separate from the weekly claim you file, which weekly claims and work search covers.

What an employment center adds

Workforce Services offers its tools online and through each of its Employment Centers statewide. The services include career counseling, job searching, resume assistance, workshops, re-employment services, resource referrals, labor market information, veteran resources, vocational rehabilitation for individuals with disabilities under the site's own Targeted Employment Services heading, and training and education resources. A Hiring Events Calendar on the same site lists job fairs and workshops near you.

A center is also the answer if you have no computer of your own. Utah unemployment phone numbers and office locations has every address, the numbers to call, and the one thing a center will not discuss with you.

Training and apprenticeships

An apprenticeship is paid training, and the state points job seekers at openings in fields such as health care and IT. You can enroll in one of the Department's own online or in-person workshops to sharpen a resume or plan a next move, and its Wages and Income Data tool shows the average pay for an occupation before you commit to training for it.

Some of this stops being optional once you are claiming. As a condition of eligibility you may be required to complete online workshops, take part in an in-person Re-Employment Services and Eligibility Assessment appointment, attend an in-person workshop, or take part in other activities to help you return to work. Failure to participate could result in a denial of benefits.

Training the division has approved protects the weeks you spend in it. For any week you are in approved training, you are not made ineligible by reason of nonavailability for work, failure to search for work, refusal of suitable work, failure to apply for or accept suitable work, or not having served the waiting week. The division has to approve any mandatory apprenticeship-related training, so ask before you enroll rather than after.

If imports or offshoring took your job

Trade Act benefits are for workers who lost a job because of foreign imports, or because production or services shifted to another country. You have to have been included in a petition the US Department of Labor approved, and then the benefits may include Trade Readjustment Allowances income support, training allowances for full-time or part-time school, job-search allowances, relocation allowances, and a wage subsidy for workers over 50 who take a job that pays less than the trade-affected one did.

Ask about it on the regional claim line for your county, which is in the table on Utah unemployment phone numbers and office locations.

Job boards that list Utah openings

These job boards carry openings around the state. If you are moving from military to civilian work, the state's own Veteran Resources page has services built for that transition.

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