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Software career guide — Detroit, MI

Software career guide by personality and purpose

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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.

Software career guide. A guide grounded in measurement instead of opinion: forty careers with the traits each runs on, what the work is worth to the world, the education path, and a way to find out which are yours. Software developers are projected to grow 15% by 2034. The work rewards persistence, abstraction, adaptability and collaboration inside product teams shipping in short cycles.

Careers the Detroit, MI economy leans on

12 counties across Michigan; 9 metro. Economies: 1 manufacturing and 1 government. Flags: 6 population loss and 2 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

Genesee County, MIHuron County, MILapeer County, MILivingston County, MIMacomb County, MIMonroe County, MIOakland County, MISanilac County, MISt. Clair County, MITuscola County, MIWashtenaw County, MIWayne County, MI

Metros around Detroit, MI

Grand Rapids, MI8 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 "software career guide" 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.