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Data career guide — Hattiesburg, MS

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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.

Data career guide. A guide grounded in measurement instead of opinion: forty careers with the traits each runs on, what the work is worth to the world, the education path, and a way to find out which are yours. Data careers reward curiosity about hidden patterns, skepticism about whether the numbers can be trusted, and the communication that turns a finding into a decision.

Careers the Hattiesburg, MS economy leans on

11 counties across Mississippi; 4 metro. Economies: 5 manufacturing, 2 government and 1 farming. Flags: 4 persistent poverty, 4 population loss and 2 housing stress.

Data Scientist+34%Statistician+8%Actuary+22%Operations Research Analyst+21%Mathematician+8%Mathematics Professor+7%

Counties in this labor market

Covington County, MSForrest County, MSJasper County, MSJefferson Davis County, MSJones County, MSLamar County, MSMarion County, MSPerry County, MSSimpson County, MSSmith County, MSWayne County, MS

Metros around Hattiesburg, MS

Memphis, TN–MS–AR9 countiesNew Orleans, LA11 countiesJackson, MS7 countiesGulfport–Biloxi, MS6 countiesTupelo, MS11 countiesMeridian, MS8 countiesMcComb, MS7 countiesStarkville, MS7 countiesGreenville, MS6 countiesOxford, MS6 countiesNatchez, MS–LA5 countiesGreenwood, MS4 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "data career guide" 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.