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Coding career assessment for students — Madison, WI

Coding career assessment: 280 items, 40 careers — for students

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What the assessment measures

280 items in five modules — what you love to do, how you work, fifteen STEM working traits, thirty real situations, and where you want your work to land — matched against forty careers in eight families. Then a sixth module drafts your mission, vision and values in your own words. Progress saves as you go; it is free and complete today.

Coding career assessment for students. An assessment is only as good as what it measures: activities you would enjoy, your working style, fifteen traits, thirty real situations, and where you want your work to land. A coding career runs on persistence through hours of troubleshooting and abstract thinking about systems you cannot see. The assessment measures both directly — before you spend a year learning to find out. Students choose classes, majors and programs years before they meet the daily work of a career; this shows the ordinary day first.

Careers the Madison, WI economy leans on

8 counties across Wisconsin; 4 metro. Economies: 4 manufacturing, 3 tourism and recreation, 1 government and 1 farming. Flags: 1 housing stress and 1 a retirement destination.

Computer & Information Research Scientist+20%Software Developer+15%Computer Systems Analyst+9%Web Developer+7%Database Administrator+4%Database Architect+4%Computer Programmer-6%

Counties in this labor market

Columbia County, WIDane County, WIGreen County, WIIowa County, WILafayette County, WIMarquette County, WIRichland County, WISauk County, WI

Metros around Madison, WI

Chicago, IL11 countiesMinneapolis, MN13 countiesMilwaukee, WI7 countiesGreen Bay, WI6 countiesDuluth, MN–WI5 countiesAppleton, WI8 countiesEau Claire, WI8 countiesLa Crosse, WI–MN5 countiesWausau, WI8 countiesSheboygan, WI2 countiesRice Lake, WI6 countiesMarinette–Menominee, WI–MI5 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "coding career assessment for students" different from a personality type test?

A type test gives you a label. STEM Compass gives you a profile on fifteen working traits and eight kinds of impact, then a directional match against each career — a number you can explain, not a letter code.

Does it cost anything?

No. The full assessment is open at tienesesto.org/stem-assessment, and every result links to a STEM Farm track that starts from zero.

Sources. Career traits, education paths and value lines are the STEM Compass assessment library. Employment growth is U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024–2034. County economic types are USDA Economic Research Service County Typology Codes (2025); labor markets are Census commuting zones (2020). Salary is not shown anywhere in this campaign on purpose: the assessment measures fit and what the work is worth to the world.