STEM careers for extroverts — Jackson, 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.

STEM careers for extroverts. Nursing, physician assistant, systems analysis, industrial engineering, and epidemiology all run on communication and collaboration. If you are energized by people, the assessment will surface the STEM work that is too.

Careers the Jackson, MS economy leans on

7 counties across Mississippi; 6 metro. Economies: 2 government and 1 manufacturing. Flags: 4 persistent poverty, 4 housing stress and 4 population loss.

Data Scientist+34%Statistician+8%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

Attala County, MS Copiah County, MS Hinds County, MS Holmes County, MS Madison County, MS Rankin County, MS Yazoo County, MS

Metros around Jackson, MS

Memphis, TN–MS–AR9 counties New Orleans, LA11 counties Gulfport–Biloxi, MS6 counties Hattiesburg, MS11 counties Tupelo, MS11 counties Meridian, MS8 counties McComb, MS7 counties Starkville, MS7 counties Greenville, MS6 counties Oxford, MS6 counties Natchez, MS–LA5 counties Greenwood, MS4 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "stem careers 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.