STEM program finder — Union Parish, LA

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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 program finder. 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 STEM program is a path to a career. Find the career that fits first, then the STEM Farm track that starts at zero and ends in that job with verified proof at every gate.

Careers the Union Parish economy hires into

Union Parish is nonspecialized in the USDA ERS 2025 typology — no single industry dominates, flagged for population loss, a metro county. Its labor market is the Monroe, LA commuting zone (7 counties), MSA rank #217.

Data Scientist+34%Information Security Analyst+29%Actuary+22%Operations Research Analyst+21%Computer & Information Research Scientist+20%Software Developer+15%Computer Network Architect+12%Computer Systems Analyst+9%

The wider labor market

Most STEM jobs a Union Parish resident will hold are inside the Monroe, LA zone, not inside the county line.

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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.

STEM program finder — Monroe, LA → · All careers in Union Parish →

Questions people ask

How is a "stem program finder" 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.