Take the STEM Compass assessmentSee the STEM Farm tracks
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.
Database career guide for students. A guide grounded in measurement instead of opinion: forty careers with the traits each runs on, what the work is worth to the world, the education path, and a way to find out which are yours. Database administration and architecture reward detail, meticulousness, numbers affinity, abstraction and composure. Records only matter if they are there when needed and never lost. Students choose classes, majors and programs years before they meet the daily work of a career; this shows the ordinary day first.
Careers the Benson County economy hires into
Benson County is farming-typed in the USDA ERS 2025 typology, flagged for low employment, persistent poverty and population loss, a nonmetro county. Its labor market is the Devils Lake, ND commuting zone (3 counties).
The wider labor market
Most STEM jobs a Benson County resident will hold are inside the Devils Lake, ND zone, not inside the county line.
What moves it
- WIOA-funded training pays for the credential, ages 14 to 24 and adults: find your local office.
- Registered apprenticeship — a wage from day one: apprenticeship.gov.
- FAFSA — free to file, the gate to nearly all aid: studentaid.gov.
- STEM Farm — the track from zero to the career the assessment says fits: the twelve tracks.
Database career guide for students — Devils Lake, ND → · All careers in Benson County →
Questions people ask
How is a "database career guide 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.