Leadership Jobs and MBA Programs in Mississippi

There are plenty of job and employment prospects for operating officers in Mississippi. In Mississippi, there are currently 2,610 jobs for operating officers and this is projected to grow by nine percent to 5,420 jobs by 2016. This goes against the national trend for operating officers, which sees the job pool actually falling at one percent over the next 10 years. In general, operating officers recognize and create policies for the overall direction of companies or private and public sector organizations.

Mississippi photo by Nathan Culpepper

State figures show that operating officers in Mississippi earn $61 per hour or $127,000 per year on average. In the U.S. as a whole, their income is $77 hourly or $160,000 per year on average.

Nicknamed the Magnolia State, Mississippi is home to 2,951,996 people. It's population has increased 3.8 percent over the last 10 years. The state capital is Jackson. There were 1,558,262 total jobs in 2008 and workers in Mississippi earned more than the previous year with an average annual income of $30,383, up from $29,542. The unemployment rate in Mississippi was 9.6 percent in 2009. It went up by 2.8 percentage points since the previous year. The number of residents with a college degree is 16.9 percent. This is under the national average.

The top employing fields in Mississippi include furniture product manufacturing, household furniture cabinet manufacturing, household furniture manufacturing and upholstered household furniture manufacturing.

While being known for many things, one of the most noteworthy, the world's largest shrimp is on display at the Old Spanish Fort Museum in Pascagoula. One of the unique tidbits about Mississippi is S.B. Sam Vick of Oakland played for the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. He was the only man ever to pinch hit for the baseball great Babe Ruth.

Leadership

Operating officers recognize and create policies for the overall direction of companies or private and public sector organizations.

They regularly present data at meetings or conventions to promote services and accomplish objectives and direct business or departmental efforts concerned with the production or distribution of products.

They are required to evaluate and judge the efficacy of solutions and manage and maintain budgets and other financial resources.

Operating officers should be able to think through problems and come up with general rules and piece together evidence to, in some sense, diagnose what is going on in a situation.

In order to be successful in the workplace, operating officers must have exceptional integrity and want to innovate to meet new challenges.