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Laboratory career path — Champaign, IL

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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.

Laboratory 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. Laboratory careers reward detail, meticulousness, patience and a preference for controlled conditions and a known right answer. Most medical decisions rest on a lab result someone got right.

Careers the Champaign, IL economy leans on

6 counties across Illinois; 4 metro. Economies: 1 government and 1 farming. Flags: 3 population loss and 1 housing stress.

Biochemist & Biophysicist+7%Chemist & Materials Scientist+6%Physicist+4%Astronomer+4%Physician Assistant+20%Epidemiologist+16%Medical Scientist+9%Biomedical Engineer+6%Registered Nurse+5%Microbiologist+5%Physician & Surgeon+4%Clinical Laboratory Technologist+4%

Counties in this labor market

Champaign County, ILDe Witt County, ILFord County, ILLivingston County, ILMcLean County, ILPiatt County, IL

Metros around Champaign, IL

Chicago, IL11 countiesSt. Louis, MO12 countiesDavenport, IA–IL7 countiesPeoria, IL8 countiesRockford, IL7 countiesEvansville, IN10 countiesLafayette, IN9 countiesSpringfield, IL10 countiesTerre Haute, IN8 countiesKankakee, IL2 countiesPaducah, KY–IL12 countiesDubuque, IA–IL5 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "laboratory 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.