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The Possible Careers For An ENFP Personality Type

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Careers that are relative to an individual 's personality type are quite necessary for someone who is determined to pursue his or her goals whether for academic advancement or for personal . Individuals are likely to succeed in life if they enjoy what they do . According to a famous Swiss psychiatrist , Carl Jung , there are 16 personality types and if determined , it would be easy for individuals to find their way

to an enjoyable career path . This aims to discuss the details about a particular personality type , ENFP , and how it can affect one 's career decisions and interests

The Possible Careers For An ENFP Personality Type

Carl Jung , one of the most renowned psychiatrists in history and founder of analytical psychology , introduced the personality typology According to Dr . C . George Boeree 's (2006 ) brief biography of Carl Jung Jung developed a personality typology that has become so popular that some people don 't realize he did anything else . It begins with the distinction between introversion and extroversion (n .p . Boeree (2006 ) also discussed in his article the four functions that Jung believed are people 's preferences in dealing with the inner and outer world . These are sensing , thinking , intuiting , and feeling . These functions were developed later on by Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers In the book of Esther Cameron and Mike Green (2004 , the authors described the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI ) as follows

The most effective tool for identifying personality type is the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI . This is a personality inventory developed by Katherine Briggs and her daughter Isabel Myers . The MBTI is based on the work of the Swiss analytical psychologist Carl Jung . The MBTI identifies eight different personality `preferences ' that we all use at different time - but each individual will have a preference for one particular combination over the others (pp . 43-44

These are the 16 personality types as enumerated by Myers and Briggs ENFP , INFP , ENFJ , INFJ , ESTJ , ISTJ , ESFJ , ISFJ , ENTP , INTP , ENTJ , INTJ ESTP , ISTP , ESFP , and ISFP (cited in Cameron Green , 2004 . Each letter stands for the eight different personality `preferences ' which are E-Extraverted I-Introverted , N-iNtuitive , S-Sensing , F-Feeling T-Thinking , P-Perceiving and J-Judging (Cameron Green , 2004

As for my Jungian self-assessment result , I turned out to have an ENFP personality type . It stands for Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving . According to Joe Butt 's (2005 ) functional analysis of an ENFP 's personality type

The physical world , both geos and kosmos , is the ENFP 's primary source of information . Rather than sensing things as they are , dominant intuition is sensitive to things as they might be . These extraverted intuitives are most adept with patterns and connections . Their natural inclination is toward relationships , especially among people or living things (n .p

Butt (2005 ) also pointed out one colleague of his as someone with such tremendous interpersonal skills that she put her interviewers at ease during her own...