The Massachusetts Division of Career Services (DCS) offers the Massachusetts Career Information System (MassCIS) free on-line to all Massachusetts residents. MassCIS is designed to provide occupational, wage and educational information to help people make better-informed career and school choices.

DCS holds the Massachusetts license for the Career Information System (CIS), a comprehensive, interactive system developed by intoCareers, a division of the College of Education at the University of Oregon. Thousands of schools, state agencies, and individuals throughout the United States use CIS products. DCS provides the occupational and school information for Massachusetts.

The DCS Trade Unit and the MOSES training staff will conduct seven, one-day training sessions covering all aspects of the changes to the Trade Adjustment Assistance program (TAA) resulting from enactment of the Trade and Globalization Adjustment Assistance Act of 2009 (Division B, Title I, Subtitle I of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) which significantly amended the TAA program. The changes were announced in Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 22-08, Operating Instructions for Implementing the Amendments to the Trade Act of 1974 Enacted by the Trade and Globalization Adjustment Assistance Act of 2009 (5/16/2009) . The changes were effective as of May 18, 2009.

The sessions will cover changes to the Act and associated regulations and how the changes affect policies and procedures regarding the main elements of the TAA Program, itself as well as Trade Readjustment Allowances (TRA) and the Reemployment / Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance Program (RTAA / ATAA).