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Technology career path — Pittsburgh, PA

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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.

Technology career path. A path has a start, a direction and a destination. The assessment gives the direction, the career pages the destination, and the STEM Farm track the start at zero. Technology careers run on persistence through hours of troubleshooting, abstract thinking about invisible systems, and adaptability to tools that change every year.

Careers the Pittsburgh, PA economy leans on

8 counties across Pennsylvania; 7 metro. Economies: 2 mining and energy. Flags: 5 population loss.

Data Scientist+34%Information Security Analyst+29%Computer & Information Research Scientist+20%Software Developer+15%Computer Network Architect+12%Computer Systems Analyst+9%Statistician+8%Web Developer+7%Database Administrator+4%Database Architect+4%Computer Programmer-6%

Counties in this labor market

Allegheny County, PAArmstrong County, PABeaver County, PAButler County, PAFayette County, PAGreene County, PAWashington County, PAWestmoreland County, PA

Metros around Pittsburgh, PA

Philadelphia, PA7 countiesAllentown–Bethlehem, PA–NJ5 countiesHarrisburg, PA7 countiesScranton, PA7 countiesYoungstown, OH5 countiesErie, PA9 countiesState College, PA4 countiesAltoona, PA5 countiesWilliamsport, PA9 countiesBradford, PA–NY5 countiesGermantown, MD5 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "technology career path" 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.