Your Type Preferences

Extravert(9%) iNtuitive(16%) Feeling(3%) Judging(31%)

Because you appear to have marginal or no (3%) preference of Feeling over Thinking, characteristics of more than one personality type may apply to you:
ENFJ and ENTJ.

Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging

by Joe Butt

ENFJs are the benevolent 'pedagogues' of humanity. They have tremendous charisma by which many are drawn into their nurturant tutelage and/or grand schemes. Many ENFJs have tremendous power to manipulate others with their phenomenal interpersonal skills and unique salesmanship. But it's usually not meant as manipulation -- ENFJs generally believe in their dreams, and see themselves as helpers and enablers, which they usually are.

ENFJs are global learners. They see the big picture. The ENFJs focus is expansive. Some can juggle an amazing number of responsibilities or projects simultaneously. Many ENFJs have tremendous entrepreneurial ability.

ENFJs are, by definition, Js, with whom we associate organization and decisiveness. But they don't resemble the SJs or even the NTJs in organization of the environment nor occasional recalcitrance. ENFJs are organized in the arena of interpersonal affairs. Their offices may or may not be cluttered, but their conclusions (reached through feelings) about people and motives are drawn much more quickly and are more resilient than those of their NFP counterparts.

ENFJs know and appreciate people. Like most NFs, (and Feelers in general), they are apt to neglect themselves and their own needs for the needs of others. They have thinner psychological boundaries than most, and are at risk for being hurt or even abused by less sensitive people. ENFJs often take on more of the burdens of others than they can bear.

TRADEMARK: "The first shall be last"

This refers to the open-door policy of ENFJs.One ENFJ colleague always welcomes me into his office regardless of his own circumstances. If another person comes to the door, he allows them to interrupt our conversation with their need. While discussing that need, the phone rings and he stops to answer it. Others drop in with a 'quick question.' I finally get up, go to my office and use the call waiting feature on the telephone. When he hangs up, I have his undivided attention!

(ENFJ stands for Extravert, iNtuitive, Feeling, Judging and represents individual's preferences in four dimensions characterising personality type, according to Jung's and Briggs Myers' theories of personality type.)

ENFJ Career Choices

Extravert(9%) iNtuitive(16%) Feeling(3%) Judging(31%)

ENFJs often find themselves in occupations that require good interpersonal skills to establish productive collaboration as well as to establish or maintain effective work process. ENFJs one of the most “universal” personality types and they build successful careers in a broad range of organizations and occupations. There are many ENFJs found among mid- and high-rank management roles. Sales, various social services, counseling, teaching, healthcare, community care as well as legal and paralegal services are just some of the examples of favourable occupations for ENFJs.

Jung Career Indicator™ determines occupations and areas in which ENFJs find themselves most fulfilled and content, are most successful, and likely are most represented in. The following list factors in the level expressivenes of each of four characteristics of personality type. It lists the most suitable areas of occupations along with some examples of educational institutions, where you can receive a relevant degree or training. The most preferred areas appear first. Click occupation names and school logos to request program information.

ENFJ Communication Skills

ENFJs are gifted with prominent communicative abilities and capable of persuading others to accept their way of thinking or their endeavor, and earning other people's trust. ENFJs gladly help others, but may become quite unhappy with those who refuse to accept the kind of help that seems the most appropriate to the ENFJ in question. They feel at ease while communicating with many people at once. Many ENFJs are very energetic and always ready to join a conversation. Often they are the ones who initiate in-depth discussions, of various topics. In communication ENFJs come across as confident, supportive, possessing the gift of gab, individuals. Sometimes they may be quite expressive about their feelings.

ENFJs find it easy enough to communicate with people of different personality types on a variety of subjects, although their interest in topics that are heavily analytical in nature may be somewhat lower.

An ENFJ enjoys an extensive circle of friends, colleagues, and contacts they make during such events as receptions, meetings, public events, and recreational activities.

ENFJs tend to have a large number of business contacts, and their communication routine can be rather intense. Their co-workers or colleagues (or others who work in the same field) are often reliant on, or interested in, their competent opinion of counsel on professional subjects. An ENFJ is perfectly capable of maintaining an eventful business communication agenda, which usually involves an exchange of ideas and opinions, as well as practical solutions.

ENFJ Learning Style

How ENFJs aquire, memorize and recollect information

An ENFJ’s interest in a subject is driven by the answer to the question, “Is this helpful to people?” The more they see a topic to be beneficial to others, the greater their interest in the topic and the greater their desire to actively engage in it and apply what they learn. Their interest in studying the material is motivated by their desire to find solutions to people-related issues.

ENFJs easily and quickly pick up new material, especially when it is delivered on a conceptual basis. Concrete information is also well received by individuals of this type. ENFJs are capable of grasping material lacking strong logical connection. For example, learning the rules of the road is no more difficult for them than grasping some theory. As a rule, they develop a great depth and breadth of understanding of new material. Learned material is better retained when a significant portion of it is devoted to highlighting the topic’s connection and relevance to people.

ENFJs are capable of independently learning expansive and complex material. They are good at both retention of information on a logical basis and mechanical memorization, although the latter is less effective. ENFJs are able to precisely recall learned information, whether or not it is all conceptually related. ENFJs can benefit from studying both independently and in a group setting.

ENFJs are able to actively apply acquired knowledge and skills to their work. They can apply it to concrete tasks or creatively develop it in a given direction. Working with material they have learned, understood, and internalized brings them great enjoyment.

ENFJs are able to remain very stable when experiencing a high level of learning related stress. They prefer to evenly distribute their efforts in learning new material, although they are capable of learning through short periods of overexertion.

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• Your personality strengths. Knowing and leveraging your personality strengths is important for career success. This section of the Career Development Profile describes distinct features of your personality such as leadership qualities, results orientation, creativity, the ability to establish effective collaboration, and so on. Use it for self-marketing. For example, you can incorporate the strengths into your resume, mention at the interview or in other appropriate situations to promote yourself.
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• Pitfalls. Like with everyone else, some of your natural personality traits may become your weaknesses or become obstacles in successful career development. These weaknesses or pitfalls typically manifest themselves when certain workplace circumstances are in place. This section describes some pitfalls related to the specifics of your personality, which you need to be aware of, as well as some useful tips to help you manage these issues.
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• Career development resources about leadership styles, communication styles, and conflict management techniques.

Pre-employment Personality Assessment

Understanding the personality types and natural behavioural preferences of job candidates can both substantially enhance your candidate selection and pre-employment screening process, and be an invaluable instrument for smooth integration and successful start of a new high-ranking manager or a team member.

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When interviewing a job candidate, you as a hiring manager or human resources professional (or your company’s hiring and human resources managers) face the challenge of knowing nothing about personality of the candidate you are about to meet. What questions should you ask during an interview to reveal the candidate’s strengths, and to probe at any weak areas? Will he or she get along with your team members? Will he or she get along with you? What about with your boss? Will the candidate bring personality strengths to the table that the current team might be lacking? How will you ensure the successful integration of a new team member or ensure a promoted employee succeeds in a new role? This is where assessing the personality of your candidates with the Jung Typology Profiler for Workplace comes in handy.

What is the Jung Typology Profiler for Workplace™ (JTPW)?

The Jung Typology Profiler for Workplace™ is the professional version of the Jung Typology Test that you took. JTPW™ assessment is designed for application in the workplace and is aimed at organizations and business users. JTPW™ personality assessment is offered from our HRPersonality.com website.

 How JTPW™ is different from JTT™?

Personality Assessment of Job Candidates

Assessments with JTPW are commonly used by organizations for comprehensive personality assessment of job candidates - both prospective employees and internal candidates up for promotion, as part of the pre-employment screening or succession planning process. It comes in handy when:

• a candidate’s propensity toward certain behaviours and soft skills is critical for the job, and/or
• the smooth and effective integration of the candidate into the existing team and organization’s culture is important

With JTPW, you will obtain:

• Workplace-oriented behavioural scores and comprehensive multi-page personality profiles of your candidates
• Personality compatibility guidelines and a candidate’s compatibility scores for specific occupations
• The convenience of side-by-side comparison of the results of multiple candidates
• Behavioural interview guidelines, including sample questions relevant to a candidate’s personality type
• And more

Personality profiles generated by JTPW include scores of workplace-oriented behavioural indices, interpretative textual and visual materials, and are dynamically generated by the built-in expert system. The behavioural scores cover such areas as: leadership, communication and interpersonal skills, empathy, diligence, rationality and analyticity, and are presented in the Personality Radar graph:

The profiles provide a personalized description of a candidate, covering such insights into a candidate’s personality as: their most likely strengths and weaknesses in the workplace, the strengths of their behavioural preferences, their motivational factors, conflict resolution style, problem-solving and decision making style, communication style and more.

The Job Compatibility Guidelines and Scoring module (JCG) uses a built-in algorithm to score a candidate’s personality compatibility for job titles of your interest on the scale of 0-100%. The out-of-the-box list of job titles available for compatibility scoring includes many common occupations, including various sales positions, mid- and high-ranking management and more.

In addition to the compatibility score, you get job compatibility guidelines for each such job title. The job compatibility guidelines are expressed in terms of personality types and the range of behavioural indices that are most commonly present in individuals who are successful in these jobs.

Best Fit and Successful Integration

Oftentimes, you or your organization may want to ensure that a new team member smoothly and effectively integrates into the existing team - peers, managers and/or subordinates – and with the organizational culture – whatever the specifics of your particular team and organization may be. Personality assessment with JTPW helps you accomplish this goal by performing the following basic steps:

• conducting personality assessments of the members of the existing team or the individuals the prospective candidate will have to interact with,
• obtaining group's overall personality radar (group personality radar), and then comparing a candidate's or a new hire’s personality radar against the group's overall personality radar, as well as
• comparing against a manager’s Personality Radar, as required, to confirm compatibility or reveal potential conflicts.

New! The unique 1:1 Personality Compatibility Report provides personality compatibility analysis of a pair of respondents and features the personality compatibility potential indicator. The indicator factors in the differences in behavioral traits, their expressiveness, and the differences in personality types of the respondents. The report includes:

• personality compatibility potential indicator      
• side-by-side comparison of behavioral scores and personality radars of respondents
• analysis, interpretation and tips on how to prevent potential (or manage the existing) tension and conflict between individuals

Use this report to explore personality compatibility between the prospective and the existing team members or the leader, and develop a successfull integration strategy.

Identify Soft Skill Requirements

JTPW can help you discover and confirm any potentially weak areas of the existing team by completing personality assessments of the existing team members and obtaining a JTPW Group Summary Report. The Group Summary Report allows you to analyze your team as a whole and determine its potentially weak areas in terms of soft skills. Once such “blind spots” are identified, you can incorporate them into new hire requirements or a job posting and then look for a candidate who might bring to the table personality qualities that are be lacking in the team.

For example, by looking at the JTPW Group Personality Radar included in the Group Summary Report you might find that your team’s Rationality index is on the low end. So, you might be looking for a new team member with more expressed Rationality, as it may be relevant to the job.

Employee Development 

and Team Building

In the workplace, it is common to encounter a mix of different personalities, viewpoints, past experiences, expectations, communication issues and conflicts. How can you get such different people to work as an effective team? How do you improve communication? How can you resolve and prevent conflicts? How can you help employees succeed in today’s fast-paced environment? How do you establish an effective work environment? How do you increase workplace productivity and job satisfaction? How do you motivate employees and become a better leader? These are just some examples of the workplace issues that can be effectively addressed once you are equipped with the results of the personality assessment of your employees that is specifically designed for the workplace – the Jung Typology Profiler for Workplace™ (JTPW™) - and the base of it is understanding your employees’ personality types and their natural behavioural preferences and gifts.

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Jung Typology Profiler for Workplace™ is the professional version of the Jung Typology Test™ that you took. JTPW™ is designed for application in the workplace, and is aimed at organizations and business users. More info about JTPW™

You and your company can use JTPW™ for:

• Assessing employee potential and optimizing their job responsibilities accordingly
• Assessing the propensity for, and developing and optimizing the use of, leadership skills of your staff
• Conflict Management
• Improving supervisor-subordinate and peer-to-peer work relationship
• Improving teamwork
• Evaluating candidates for promotion

JTPW™ personality assessments and tools for staff development and team building are offered from our HRPersonality.comwebsite.

Assessing Employee’s Potentials and Optimizing Job Responsibilities

One of the applications of the JTPW™ is the assessment of an employee in order to determine areas and responsibilities where an employee can contribute to their fullest potential and most productively. The JTPW™ also determines an employee’s motivating factors, as well as his or her potential strengths and limitations, in terms of soft skills. An understanding of these aspects of employees’ personalities allows managers to maximize the effectiveness of each individual employee, and the effectiveness of a team as a whole, increase job satisfaction and reduce work-related stress. The ultimate outcome is a greater overall productivity and a decrease in turnover.

Assessing and Developing Leadership Skills

This is another important use of the JTPW™ in the workplace. With JTPW™ you can obtain evaluation of an individual’s propensity for natural leadership talents. The assessment pinpoints an individual’s leadership style and the extent to which he or she is likely to display leadership qualities. Understanding one’s own leadership style allows an employee to make use of his or her natural strengths and recognize potential limitations. The awareness of these strengths and limitations gives a leader the ability to see if any changes might be necessary and take proper steps in that direction.

Effective Working Relationship between Two Employees

The third important application of the JTPW™ is improvement of work relationship involving two employees, such as a manager and his or her subordinate, or two peers working together. With JTPW™ you can assess the propensity for effective collaboration and reveal potential sources of “friction”. The assessment includes analyzing the combination of personality types and several behavioral indices of the individuals involved, and identifying areas of likely concurrence or dissonance. The behavioral indices that scored close in both individuals determine the areas of likely concurrence. The behavioral indices that scored significantly different in both individuals determine the areas of divergence. Depending on a situation areas of divergence may or may not become a source of a conflict. The report produced by JTPW™ includes tips on leveraging areas of concurrence and mitigate potential issues sourcing from areas of divergence, in order to establish the most effective and mutually acceptable working relationship.

New! The unique 1:1 Personality Compatibility Report is offered is now offered to organizations from our HRPersonality.com assessment portal. It provides personality compatibility analysis of a pair of respondents and features the personality compatibility potential indicator. The indicator factors in the differences in behavioral traits, their expressiveness, and the differences in personality types of the respondents. The report includes:

• personality compatibility potential indicator     
• side-by-side comparison of behavioral scores and personality radars of respondents
• analysis, interpretation and tips on how to prevent potential (or manage the existing) tension and conflict between individuals

Use this report to explore personality compatibility between the prospective and the existing team members or the leader, between the existing team members, or between the team members and the leader.

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Improving Teamwork

Personality assessment with JTPW™ can be effectively used to improve teamwork and team productivity when we are talking about teams of two and more employees. An assessment for the purposes of effective teaming includes:

• Identifying the points of concurrence and points of friction between team members as explained in the previous paragraph
• Reviewing Group Personality Radar™ graph that visually represents the strengths of the key workplace-related behavioral qualities of a team, in such categories as leadership, communication, diligence, empathy, rationality and analyticity. Group Personality Radar™ is a useful tool for determining group's likely strengths and potential deficiencies as a whole. Comparing team members’ Personality Radars with a team’s Group Personality Radar™ reveals propensity for compatibility of an individual team member with the behavioral patterns that are dominant within the group. Likewise it may also reveal potential friction between the individual and the group.
• Comparing Personality Radars of the team members with the Personality Radar™ of the team leader, in order to evaluate the degree of cooperation that is likely to occur between the team member and the team leader, and also the degree of tension that may potentially arise in situations of conflict.
• The Group Personality Radar™ also allows for quantitative evaluation of the degree of change in the personality traits within a group in response to changes in the structure of the group – for example, possible effects of adding or removing an individual from the team. You might want to introduce a new member to the team in order to enhance certain behavioral traits of the team as a whole. For example, adding a new team member who scores high on rationality index will increase the rationality of the team as a whole.
• You can also track the changes within the group as the group is put through specific targeted training programs.

Evaluating Candidates for Promotion

Assessment with JTPW™ can be incorporated into your organization’s process of internal promotion and succession planning, and can be used for candidate’s evaluation, including the assessment of their likely effectiveness within a new team, from the soft skills/leadership skills perspective.

For the purposes of such evaluation, the candidate will complete JTPW™ questionnaire and a report called Career Development report will be produced by the system. The Career Development report, among other things, includes several behavioral scores in various areas. The scores are indicative of behavioral preferences and natural gifts the candidate is likely to demonstrate. These scores need then to be analyzed in the context of the requirements of the new job.

In addition, it is recommended to determine and analyze the likely effects of introducing the candidate into an existing team. In order to accomplish this analysis, all individuals that the candidate will actively interact with (or at least the ones with whom it is particularly important to insure smooth interaction), will have to complete personality assessment with JTPW. Using the previously described methodology of assessing work relationship in pairs, you can evaluate how effectively the candidate will likely integrate with specific members of the team or with the team as a whole, and the potential challenges that they may encounter while working together. The results of this analysis can then be used to make specific recommendations to the candidate and the group aimed at effectively integrating the candidate into the team.

HRPersonality.com Personality Assessment Portal

JTPW™ personality assessments and tools for staff development and team building are offered from our HRPersonality.com online assessment centre. Once you open an account with HRPersonality.com, your company be able to access an online assessment portal that you can navigate and manage independently. Through your portal account you will be able to invite your employees and centrally access their results. Results become available online immediately after an employee completes the assessment. Within your assessment portal you will have access to various components of JTPW™ and analyze the results using various methods.

You (or your company’s management or HR department) will obtain JTPW™ reports incorporating analysis and interpretation based on various methods.

One such type of analysis presents an evaluation of the personality traits of the employee in the context of the basic theory of pscychological types of Carl Jung and an additional dimension (judging vs. perceiving) proposed in the theory of Isabel Briggs Myers. Whereas further analysis evaluates the employee in five workplace-focused areas including leadership, communication, diligence, empathy, and rationality/analyticity. The strengths of personality traits are quantified, and the scores are presented in a Personality Radar™ graph. Personality Radar™ allows you to quickly evaluate the unique features of an employee’s personality.

You will also obtain an individualized profile of an employee’s personality, giving you a detailed understanding of his or her traits. This profile includes sections on: the best direction for staff development, decision-making style, conflict resolution style, communication style, potential strengths and weaknesses, and more. Get started now - click here to purchase a trial pack.