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.
Physician assistant 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. Physician assistants are projected to grow 20% by 2034 and are how rural clinics keep seeing patients. The work rewards empathy, composure, detail, communication and adaptability.
Careers the Sioux Falls, SD economy leans on
9 counties across Minnesota and South Dakota; 5 metro. Economies: 5 farming and 1 government. Flags: 4 population loss and 2 a retirement destination.
Counties in this labor market
Metros around Sioux Falls, SD
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Questions people ask
How is a "physician assistant 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.