ENFP: Builder of Relationships!

The ENFP personality will frequently be passionate about all that they do. ENFPs are warm, deep, with natural “friendliness” making friends and building relationships almost constantly. You are strongly value-oriented and look for meaning in all that you do. You are always trying to understand your world and what that means. These are just some of the more personal ENFP factors that make up your list of personality traits you can use to find a career that is a natural fit.

Extraverted with Intuition, Feeling and Perception. Your career personality profile would include the following natural tendencies:
• Breadth of interests
• Grasp of possibilities
• Warmth and sympathy (emphasis on relationships)
• Natural adaptability
• Great natural imagination
• Symbolic thinking
• Ability to see/think over the horizon
• Spontaneity, warmth, optimism and perception

There are more natural traits comprising your self personality profile but those above indicate a natural ability for careers where you can be active and involved with others in your work, you are a natural at working with people more so than objects. Fields like sales, teaching, counseling draw you because of the exposure to others and you can use your natural gifts above in people oriented interactions.

The ENFP personality type will also naturally gravitate toward careers which give you opportunities to be creative, careers with a minimum of supervision and done in a friendly and relaxed environment with humor, goodwill, and a minimum of interpersonal conflict. Also, work that is challenging, fun, offering variety and/or “newness” and work that rarely requires you to handle the follow-through of routine details, or maintenance of a system or project, you would find a natural fit in.



Examples of careers often chosen by the ENFP as a career personality profile fit would include:
• Psychodrama Therapy (Psychology)
• Journalist
• Rehabilitation Counselor
• Art, Drama or Music Teacher
• Runaway Youth Counselor
• Research Assistant
• School Counselor
• Psychologist
• Director of Religious Education
• All Specialties of Counseling
• Clergy
• Crisis Counselor
• Writer
• Musician or Composer
• Educational Counselor
• Social Scientist
• Computer Operator
• Actor
• Public Relations Worker
• Restaurant Worker
• Student Personnel Administrations (college)
• Social Worker
• Artist or Entertainer
• Receptionist
• Dental Hygienist
• Aeronautical Engineer
• Education Consultant
• Surveyor
• Speech Pathologist
• Fine Artist
• Insurance Agent or Broker
• Office Manager
• Minister
• Community College Teacher
• Health Teacher
• Special Education Teacher
• Lay Member Religious Order
• Cashier
• Food Service Worker
• Priest or Monk
• Nursing Aide
• Religious Education
• Medical Assistant
• Editor
• Management Analyst Consultant
• English Teacher
• Occupational Therapist
• Human Resources Planner
• Pre-School Teacher
• Lawyer

ENFPs would be found less in careers that require a great deal of precision and logical analysis, or careers with a great deal of structure and/or routine to them. Some of the more less often chosen fields would be:
• Chemistry Scientist
• Farmer
• School Bus Driver
• Retail Store Manager
• Corporate Executive Manager
• Steelworker
• Social Services Administration
• Computer Systems Analyst
• Sales Manager
• City Works Technician
• Management Consultant
• Coal Miner
• Pathology Physician
• Chemical Engineer
• City, County, State Govt. Manager
• Small Business Manager
• Transportation Operator
• School Principal
• Corrections Officer
• Guard

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