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STEM profession finder for extroverts — Springfield, IL

STEM profession finder: matched to your profile — for extroverts

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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.

STEM profession finder for extroverts. A finder that starts with the person, not the job list. Answer the modules and get a ranked set of careers, each with growth, education path, an ordinary day, and the STEM Farm track from zero. A profession is a career you stay in. The assessment measures the traits that make the daily work sustainable — not whether you can pass the first class, but whether you will still want the work at year ten. Nursing, physician assistant, systems analysis, industrial engineering and epidemiology run on communication and collaboration; if people energize you, they surface.

Careers the Springfield, IL economy leans on

10 counties across Illinois; 2 metro. Economies: 5 farming, 2 government and 1 manufacturing. Flags: 7 population loss and 1 housing stress.

Data Scientist+34%Information Security Analyst+29%Computer Network Architect+12%Statistician+8%Biochemist & Biophysicist+7%Chemist & Materials Scientist+6%Agricultural & Food Scientist+6%Geoscientist+5%Physicist+4%Astronomer+4%Environmental Scientist+4%Zoologist & Wildlife Biologist+2%Atmospheric Scientist & Meteorologist+1%Actuary+22%Operations Research Analyst+21%Computer & Information Research Scientist+20%Software Developer+15%Computer Systems Analyst+9%Mathematician+8%Web Developer+7%Mathematics Professor+7%Database Administrator+4%Database Architect+4%Computer Programmer-6%Industrial Engineer+11%Mechanical Engineer+9%Electrical Engineer+7%Aerospace Engineer+6%Marine Engineer & Naval Architect+6%Civil Engineer+5%Environmental Engineer+4%Chemical Engineer+3%Physician Assistant+20%Epidemiologist+16%Medical Scientist+9%Biomedical Engineer+6%Registered Nurse+5%Microbiologist+5%Physician & Surgeon+4%Clinical Laboratory Technologist+4%

Counties in this labor market

Cass County, ILGreene County, ILLogan County, ILMason County, ILMcDonough County, ILMenard County, ILMorgan County, ILSangamon County, ILSchuyler County, ILScott County, IL

Metros around Springfield, IL

Chicago, IL11 countiesSt. Louis, MO12 countiesDavenport, IA–IL7 countiesPeoria, IL8 countiesRockford, IL7 countiesEvansville, IN10 countiesChampaign, IL6 countiesLafayette, IN9 countiesTerre Haute, IN8 countiesKankakee, IL2 countiesPaducah, KY–IL12 countiesDubuque, IA–IL5 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "stem profession finder for extroverts" 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.