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Careers for ENFP Personality Types

Whether you're a young adult trying to find your place in the world, or a not-so-
young adult trying to find out if you're moving along the right path, it's important to
understand yourself and the personality traits that will impact your likeliness to
succeed or fail at various careers. It's equally important to understand what is
really important to you. When armed with an understanding of your strengths and
weaknesses, and an awareness of what you truly value, you are in an excellent
position to pick a career which you will find rewarding.
ENFPs generally have the following traits:
Project-oriented
Bright and capable
Warmly, genuinely interested in people; great people skills
Extremely intuitive and perceptive about people
Able to relate to people on their on level
!ervice-oriented; likely to put the needs o" others above their
on
#uture-oriented
$islike per"orming routine tasks
%eed approval and appreciation "rom others
&ooperative and "riendly
&reative and energetic
Well-developed verbal and ritten communication skills
%atural leaders, but do not like to control people
'esist being controlled by others
&an ork logically and rationally - use their intuition to
understand the goal and ork backards toards it
(sually able to grasp di)cult concepts and theories
E!"s are lucky in that they're good a quite a lot of different things. #n E!"
can generally achieve a good degree of success at anything that has interested
them. $owever, E!"s get %ored rather easily and are not naturally good at
following things through to completion. #ccordingly, they should avoid &o%s that
require performing a lot of detailed, routine-oriented tasks. 'hey will do %est in
professions that allow them to creatively generate new ideas and deal closely
with people. 'hey will not %e happy in positions that are confining and
regimented.
ENFP CAREERS
()E#'I*E
+ournalist
,creenwriter-playwright
(olumnist
(haracter actor
.usician-composer
ewscaster
Interior decorator
(artoonist
#rtist
)eporter-editor
)eporter-editor /maga0ine1
Informational-graphics designer
.#)2E'I3-"4#I3
"u%lic relations specialist
.arketing consultant
#dvertising account executive
(opy writer-pu%licity writer
#dvertising creative director
,trategic planner
"u%licist
)esearch assistant
Editor-art director /maga0ine1
$E#4'$ (#)E-,5(I#4 ,E)*I(E
6ietician-nutritionist
,peech-language pathologist-audiologist
$olistic health practitioner /alternative
medicine1
.assage therapist
Employee assistance program counselor
"hysical therapist
4egal mediator
E67(#'I5-(57,E4I3
,pecial education teacher
8ilingual education teacher
Early childhood education teacher
'eacher9 art-drama-music-English
(hild welfare counselor
#lcohol-drug addiction counselor
,ocial worker /elderly and child daycare
issues1
6evelopment director
(areer counselor
)esidential housing director /residence life1
5m%udsperson
"astoral counselor
)eha%ilitation worker
,ocial scientist
"sychologist
E')E")EE7)I#4-87,IE,,
(onsultant
Inventor
,ales9 intangi%les-ideas
$uman resources manager
$uman resources development trainer
(onference planner
Employment development specialist
)estaurateur
.anagement consultant9 change
management-team %uilding-diversity
.erchandise planner
6iversity manager-human resources
(orporate-team trainer
#dvertising account manager or account
executive
"u%lic relations specialist
.arketing executive9 radio-'* ca%le
%roadcast industry
5utplacement consultant
Environmental attorney
Excerpt "rom $o What *ou Are by Paul +ieger and Barbara Barron-+ieger

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