Personality Type Assessment

Entraverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving

Your personality type profile is ENTP - Extraverted, Intuitive, Thinking, 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 love excitement and challenge. You are talkative, clever, and good at many things. You are fascinated with new ideas and are alert to all possibilities. You are outspoken and enjoy arguing – sometimes for fun on either side of the argument. You have excellent strategic and analytical abilities. You can almost always find a logical reason for the things you want. You like to test the limits and consider most rules and regulations are meant to be broken.

Job Tasks and Job Features to Maximize at Work Environment

• Strategic planning
• Discussion of ideas and solutions
• Improving on processes and systems
• Intellectually challenging people to work with
• Creative and innovative problem solving
• Use ideas to increase efficiency of systems
• Improvising
• Interacting with powerful people frequently
• Interacting with lots of people, especially those highly respected
• Rapidly changing, fun, exciting
• Inspiring others to become involved
• Understanding and responding to people
• Seeing many sides to the argument
• High degree of participation from people at all levels
• Personally meaningful work
• Harmony in values
• High-energy and enthusiasm for work
• Unstructured and casual
• Personal freedom
• Starting or designing projects, but the implementation is left to others
• Opportunities to “think outside the box”
• Take risks
• Withstand rejection
• Optimism and enthusiasm
• Seeing the big picture
• Juggling several projects at once
• Social skills, variety of social situations
• Broad range of interested and learn new things quickly

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.

• Entrepreneur
• Inventor
• Management consultant
• Marketing planner
• Creative writer
• Internet architect
• Restaurant owner
• Chef
• Reporter and correspondent
• Strategic planner
• Motivational/Professional speaker
• Strategic planner
• Nonprofit fundraiser
• Engineer
• Inventor
• Public relations representative

Possible Areas of Challenge

You have a tendency to ignore the standard way of doing things. You have a hard time staying focused on a project through to the end. You are often already onto another exciting project before a previous one is finished. Your talking some times does not allow others to contribute. You also do not always share your true emotions, you instead adapt to the situation. You also fear you will miss opportunities if you do not say yes to everything that comes along.

Job Tasks to Minimize

• Thoroughness and attention to details required
• Competitive or tension filled environment
• Disciplining or criticizing others
• High degree of organization
• Focus on what is doable or probable
• Working mostly with unimaginative or inflexible people
• Traditional, routine processes
• Working with inefficient or incompetent people