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Coding career assessment for students — Washington, NC

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 Washington, NC economy leans on

5 counties across North Carolina; 0 metro. Economies: 2 government and 1 tourism and recreation. Flags: 3 housing stress, 3 population loss and 2 low employment.

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

Beaufort County, NCHyde County, NCMartin County, NCTyrrell County, NCWashington County, NC

Metros around Washington, NC

Charlotte, NC–SC13 countiesVirginia Beach, VA16 countiesRaleigh, NC10 countiesWinston-Salem, NC10 countiesWilmington, NC4 countiesAsheville, NC6 countiesSpartanburg, SC5 countiesFayetteville, NC10 countiesHickory, NC5 countiesJacksonville, NC5 countiesBurlington, NC4 countiesGreenville, NC6 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.