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STEM career explorer: personality first, then purpose — for Latinas

Exploration without a map is wandering. The assessment gives you the map — trait profile, impact profile, top families, top careers, and the ordinary day of each. A STEM career is forty different jobs pretending to be one word. Software, data, engineering, health, research, mathematics, security and earth science each run on a different mix of the fifteen working traits the assessment measures. SHE MATTERS built this for the question nobody asked you: what do you love to do, and what do you want your work to change?

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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.

Careers this covers

Software & Technology — Build the digital world people live inside.

Software Developer+15%Web Developer+7%Computer Programmer-6%Computer Systems Analyst+9%Database Administrator+4%Database Architect+4%Computer & Information Research Scientist+20%

Data Science & Statistics — Find the truth hiding in the numbers.

Data Scientist+34%Statistician+8%

Engineering — Design and build what has to work.

Aerospace Engineer+6%Chemical Engineer+3%Civil Engineer+5%Electrical Engineer+7%Environmental Engineer+4%Industrial Engineer+11%Marine Engineer & Naval Architect+6%Mechanical Engineer+9%

Healthcare & Life Sciences — Keep people alive, well, and cared for.

Biomedical Engineer+6%Registered Nurse+5%Physician Assistant+20%Physician & Surgeon+4%Clinical Laboratory Technologist+4%Medical Scientist+9%Epidemiologist+16%Microbiologist+5%

Physical Sciences & Research — Ask how the universe works, then prove it.

Biochemist & Biophysicist+7%Physicist+4%Astronomer+4%Chemist & Materials Scientist+6%

Mathematics & Analytics — Turn uncertainty into decisions.

Operations Research Analyst+21%Actuary+22%Mathematician+8%Mathematics Professor+7%

Cybersecurity & Networks — Protect the systems everyone depends on.

Computer Network Architect+12%Information Security Analyst+29%

Environmental & Earth Science — Understand and protect the living planet.

Atmospheric Scientist & Meteorologist+1%Environmental Scientist+4%Geoscientist+5%Agricultural & Food Scientist+6%Zoologist & Wildlife Biologist+2%

This search, career by career

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Questions people ask

How is a "stem career explorer for latinas" 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.