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. 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.
Careers the Wayne County economy hires into
Wayne County is nonspecialized in the USDA ERS 2025 typology — no single industry dominates, flagged for persistent poverty, a nonmetro county. Its labor market is the Poplar Bluff, MO commuting zone (4 counties).
The wider labor market
Most STEM jobs a Wayne County resident will hold are inside the Poplar Bluff, MO zone, not inside the county line.
What moves it
- WIOA-funded training pays for the credential, ages 14 to 24 and adults: find your local office.
- Registered apprenticeship — a wage from day one: apprenticeship.gov.
- FAFSA — free to file, the gate to nearly all aid: studentaid.gov.
- STEM Farm — the track from zero to the career the assessment says fits: the twelve tracks.
Software career test — Poplar Bluff, MO → · All careers in Wayne County →
Questions people ask
How is a "software career 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.