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STEM fields options for extroverts — Elkins, WV

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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 fields options for extroverts. Forty options across eight families is a lot to weigh by hand. The assessment does the weighing: fit score, trait-fit breakdown, impact fit, and where each role would stretch you. Eight STEM fields, eight trait signatures. The assessment scores you on all fifteen traits and shows which fields are already yours before you commit to a major or a program. Nursing, physician assistant, systems analysis, industrial engineering and epidemiology run on communication and collaboration; if people energize you, they surface.

Careers the Elkins, WV economy leans on

4 counties across West Virginia; 0 metro. Economies: 2 mining and energy, 2 tourism and recreation and 1 government. Flags: 3 low post-secondary education, 2 low employment and 2 population loss.

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

Counties in this labor market

Barbour County, WVPocahontas County, WVRandolph County, WVTucker County, WV

Metros around Elkins, WV

Huntington, WV–KY–OH7 countiesCharleston, WV8 countiesMorgantown, WV10 countiesSteubenville–Weirton, OH–WV–PA10 countiesBeckley, WV6 countiesParkersburg, WV–OH9 countiesLeesburg, VA9 countiesPikeville, KY8 countiesCumberland, MD–WV–PA6 countiesBluefield, WV–VA5 countiesAthens, OH4 countiesSummersville, WV2 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "stem fields options 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.