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Programming career assessment — Cleveland, OH

Programming career assessment: 280 items, 40 careers

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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.

Programming career assessment. An assessment is only as good as what it measures: activities you would enjoy, your working style, fifteen traits, thirty real situations, and where you want your work to land. Programming rewards the person who tries a sixth way after the fifth failed. It also rewards detail, procedure and comfort with a defined right answer.

Careers the Cleveland, OH economy leans on

8 counties across Ohio; 8 metro. Economies: 2 manufacturing and 1 government. Flags: 3 population loss and 1 housing stress.

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

Ashtabula County, OHCuyahoga County, OHGeauga County, OHLake County, OHLorain County, OHMedina County, OHPortage County, OHSummit County, OH

Metros around Cleveland, OH

Cincinnati, OH–KY12 countiesColumbus, OH10 countiesDayton, OH8 countiesToledo, OH–MI7 countiesYoungstown, OH5 countiesCanton, OH6 countiesHuntington, WV–KY–OH7 countiesMansfield, OH5 countiesSandusky–Port Clinton, OH4 countiesSteubenville–Weirton, OH–WV–PA10 countiesLima, OH5 countiesParkersburg, WV–OH9 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "programming career assessment" 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.