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IT career path — Grand Rapids, 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.

IT 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. IT careers — systems analysis, database administration, network architecture — reward detail, meticulousness and composure when a system is down and everyone is waiting.

Careers the Grand Rapids, MI economy leans on

8 counties across Michigan; 5 metro. Economies: 4 manufacturing and 2 tourism and recreation.

Information Security Analyst+29%Computer Network Architect+12%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

Allegan County, MIBarry County, MIIonia County, MIKent County, MIMuskegon County, MINewaygo County, MIOceana County, MIOttawa County, MI

Metros around Grand Rapids, MI

Detroit, MI12 countiesLansing, MI4 countiesSouth Bend, IN–MI8 countiesKalamazoo, MI4 countiesSaginaw, MI9 countiesJackson, MI3 countiesTraverse City–Garfield, MI5 countiesHoughton Lake, MI6 countiesCadillac, MI5 countiesMarinette–Menominee, WI–MI5 countiesAlpena, MI4 countiesMarquette, MI4 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "it 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.