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Math career aptitude test — Chicago, IL

Math career aptitude test: what you would love, not what you scored

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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.

Math career aptitude test. Aptitude tests measure what you can do under a clock. STEM Compass measures what you would keep doing on a Saturday with nobody watching — the enjoyment that turns into skill. Math careers — actuary, statistician, mathematician, operations research — reward deep comfort with numbers, abstract structure, and the discipline to be exactly right.

Careers the Chicago, IL economy leans on

11 counties across Illinois and Wisconsin; 11 metro. Economies: 1 government and 1 manufacturing. Flags: 4 housing stress.

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

Counties in this labor market

Cook County, ILDeKalb County, ILDuPage County, ILGrundy County, ILKane County, ILKendall County, ILKenosha County, WILake County, ILMcHenry County, ILRacine County, WIWill County, IL

Metros around Chicago, IL

Minneapolis, MN13 countiesSt. Louis, MO12 countiesMilwaukee, WI7 countiesMadison, WI8 countiesDavenport, IA–IL7 countiesPeoria, IL8 countiesRockford, IL7 countiesGreen Bay, WI6 countiesDuluth, MN–WI5 countiesEvansville, IN10 countiesAppleton, WI8 countiesChampaign, IL6 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "math career aptitude test" 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.