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.
Software career test without a degree. Most career tests stop at a type. This one measures fifteen STEM working traits and eight kinds of impact, then matches the whole profile to careers and to a path from zero. Software developers are projected to grow 15% by 2034. The work rewards persistence, abstraction, adaptability and collaboration inside product teams shipping in short cycles. Web, software, security, data and technician roles open through certificates, apprenticeships and portfolios; the STEM Farm track assumes no degree.
Careers the Brookings, SD economy leans on
6 counties across South Dakota; 0 metro. Economies: 4 farming, 1 manufacturing and 1 government. Flags: 1 population loss.
Counties in this labor market
Metros around Brookings, SD
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Questions people ask
How is a "software career test without a degree" 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.