User Account start up login

Hi, I've just bought a used and reformatted macbook pro and set up a user account for work. I've also now transferred my other user account for home from my imac. However whenever I start up the laptop it logs straight into my home account automatically by default meaning that whenever I want to use it for work on start up (which is 90% of the time) i have to start up, log out of my home account then log back into my work account, which whilst isn't a massive problem is particularly frustrating! Have looked around forums for solutions but not found anything, does anyone know how to change settings so that when the laptop starts up it defaults to the login screen so I can then select whichever account i want to go into?
Any help would be much appreciated!!

Open the Accounts pane of System Preferences and change the login options.
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