Personality Type Assessment

Extraverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving

Your personality type profile is ENFP - Extraverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving.

You can at any time retake the assessment – most people find the assessment describes themselves very well. If you are not convinced it is your natural tendency, go back through and retake the assessment or look into working with a professional trained in the official version of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) test online. This happens more often in households where the parents or the current work role of the individual encouraged behaviors that were different than their personality type and have adapted well to this more unnatural state.

Also, if you are interested in going more in-depth or getting assistance on applying your findings to your personal and/or professional life, contact a trained professional in administering the full MBTI® assessment.

Keep in mind as you continue reading you will identify with most of the description. There may be some points that are not right on. The type profile is not meant to be a total comprehensive, all-encompassing description of your innermost thoughts, and behaviors. You should however recognize a great deal of yourself in it.

Do not typecast yourself in your personality type either. This will not tell you what you can and can not do. This is a tool in your career toolbox to use to go forward when making decisions in your personal and professional life. It will help you rearrange how you approach tasks and which ones you focus more energy on. We all must incorporate activities daily that are outside our personality type profile’s comfort zone.

Action Step:

Do more often the tasks in your personal and professional life that are in your personality type profile. The goal is to rearrange your days so you are performing in your personality type profile 80% of of the time and only 20% or less of the time operating in your unnatural zone. A huge benefit is you will have energy and be able to give your full focus and often operate very efficiently even when outside your natural personality type if you are only in this unnatural zone for a brief time.

Overview

You are full of enthusiasm and new ideas. Optimistic, spontaneous, creative and confident, you value inspiration and are an ingenious inventor. You are a keen observer and very perceptive of goings-on around you. You prefer to understand rather than judge. You have impulsive energy and ready to help anyone with a problem.

Job Tasks and Job Features to Maximize at Work Environment

• Brainstorming multiple possible solutions, especially novel and creative ideas that will help people
• Free to pursue inspirations (multiple inspirations)
• Express ideas in some format – speech, presentation, visual media
• Keen observation and perception
• Understanding people’s actions and choices
• Work with diverse group of people on variety of projects
• Fun and challenging and always varied
• Work at own pace and schedule and
• Minimum of rules and structure
• Multiple opportunities to meet new people
• Learn new skills
• Friendly, relaxed environment with minimum of interpersonal conflict
• Environment where enthusiasm and imagination are rewarded
• “Thinking outside the box”
• Allowed to take risks
• Get others excited about an idea or solution
• Ability to perceive others –understand motivations and needs of others

Job Titles

Keep in mind that what you do in reality must reflect working primarily in job tasks from the list above. Job titles are not always reflective of the actual work, in that case, the work should be adjusted to come from your tasks and features list above if you want to work within your natural personality type.

• Internet art director
• Journalist
• Multimedia producer
• Strategic planner
• Publicist
• Caterer in business for self
• Holistic health practitioner
• Dietitian in private practice with a variety of work projects
• Physical therapist
• Public health educator
• Change management consultant
• Conference planner
• Public relations specialist
• Recruiter
• Project manager
• Advertising creative director
• Spokesperson
• Media representative

Possible Areas of Challenge

You have trouble making decisions. The fun part of a project is the initial problem solving and creation of something new. You may lack the self-discipline necessary to complete things you have started. You are not particularly well organized. Information gathering is tedious.

Job Tasks to Minimize

• Focusing on one project at a time as this is seen as non-exciting or non-inspiring
• Large focus on information gathering
• Disciplining or criticizing others
• Working alone for long periods of time
• Bringing project to closure
• Decision making and follow-through
• Routine and repetitive tasks (bored easily)
• Working with uncreative people
• Doing tasks in traditional ways
• Focus on what is probable or doable
• Effective and detailed organization skills