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Data career path — South Bend, IN–MI

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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.

Data career path. A path has a start, a direction and a destination. The assessment gives the direction, the career pages the destination, and the STEM Farm track the start at zero. Data careers reward curiosity about hidden patterns, skepticism about whether the numbers can be trusted, and the communication that turns a finding into a decision.

Careers the South Bend, IN–MI economy leans on

8 counties across Indiana and Michigan; 4 metro. Economies: 5 manufacturing and 2 tourism and recreation. Flags: 2 population loss and 1 low post-secondary education.

Data Scientist+34%Statistician+8%Actuary+22%Operations Research Analyst+21%Mathematician+8%Mathematics Professor+7%

Counties in this labor market

Berrien County, MICass County, MIElkhart County, INLaGrange County, INMarshall County, INSt. Joseph County, INSt. Joseph County, MIStarke County, IN

Metros around South Bend, IN–MI

Detroit, MI12 countiesIndianapolis, IN13 countiesLouisville/Jefferson County, KY–IN12 countiesGrand Rapids, MI8 countiesLansing, MI4 countiesFort Wayne, IN11 countiesEvansville, IN10 countiesKalamazoo, MI4 countiesLafayette, IN9 countiesSaginaw, MI9 countiesTerre Haute, IN8 countiesBloomington, IN6 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "data career path" 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.