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. 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.
Careers the Paducah, KY–IL economy leans on
12 counties across Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee; 5 metro. Economies: 3 manufacturing, 2 government, 2 farming, 1 tourism and recreation and 1 mining and energy. Flags: 6 population loss, 2 low post-secondary education and 1 low employment.
Counties in this labor market
Metros around Paducah, KY–IL
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Questions people ask
How is a "database career guide" 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.