This guide is intended to help state sex equity coordinators learn more about adult women's life experiences and the skills, knowledge, and abilities they develop through them. It also shows the coordinators how to help employers determine job relevance of adult women's life experience learning. Chapter 1 overviews life experience learning, while chapter 2 describes typical life experiences of adult women. Chapter 3 reviews research on job relevance of women's experiential learning. Chapter 4 outlines a process for employer use in identifying adult women with job-relevant experience and skills. Implementation of the process is detailed in chapters 5-8. Chapter 5 focuses on occupation/ job analysis involving identifying job skills, rating job skills, and deciding hiring requirements. In chapter 6 are discussed selection and use of assessment methods to determine if adult women have the necessary type and level of skill. Chapter 7 focuses on recruitment. Chapter 8 discusses monitoring and evaluating the job performance of women placed. Appendixes, amounting to approximately one-half of the guide, include Project ACCESS Experience Description Summary form, job analysis guide, employment assessment rating form, and employee rating form. (YLB)