Sample Career Portrait

Senior Corporate Manager / Executive

Style

Work Type:

My work type is ESTJ and my style is that of a "fact-minded, practical organizer." I like to organize people and projects and make sure that they are completed. My prime focus is on getting the job done. I have always been practical, realistic, matter-of-fact, with a natural head for business and leadership. I like projects where the results of my work and my teamís efforts are immediate, visible, and tangible. I can be tough when necessary, but I am also objective and logical. I am interested in having people around me who are entirely focused on getting the job done. I believe there should be rewards for meeting goals. I also enjoy community activities when they are meaningful and I have an opportunity to make an important contribution.

Career Type:

My primary career type is "enterprising." I have always been drawn to a leadership role in any organization I have been in and consider myself aggressive and self-confident with good social and political skills. I prefer to work in a hard-driving, results-oriented environment with like-minded people. I communicate very effectively and have a wide network of professional colleagues and friends with whom I communicate regularly. My secondary career type is "social." I am active in my community and enjoy working for useful causes. I like to use my leadership abilities to benefit others. I gravitate toward people who match my lifestyle and intellectual interests. My tertiary career type is "conventional." I value economic achievement, material possessions, and status. I like my company to be well organized with structured rules where people are contributing to the overall success of the team.

Work Environment Interests:

I want the people around me to be active, fast moving, and energetic. They should be critical and demanding of excellence from themselves and me. I want them to be well above average in skill and intelligence, and constantly pressing toward higher levels of performance. I like working in the city, but also enjoy traveling to many different places. My office needs to be well-appointed, and I prefer the immediate surrounding to be quiet and low-keyed. At some point in my career I would like an assignment that would allow me to live in Paris.

Career Drivers:

My primary career driver is "managerial influence." My key motivation is to advance up the corporate ladder to higher levels of responsibility, to find opportunities to serve in positions of leadership, to make an increasing contribution to the overall success of the organization, and to have a long-term opportunity for high income and estate-building. I have always worked hard to excel in all three areas of leadership and have an MBA as well as a considerable experience with high level management development courses in analytical competence, interpersonal competence, and emotional competence. My secondary career driver is "power and leadership." I like to win, be successful, overcome obstacles, be the best, be first, beat the competition, and reach for my highest.

Values and Needs:

I feel strongly about the following values and diligently maintain them in my worklife: leadership, status, power and authority, profit, gain, and high earnings. The values and needs that I feel are not yet satisfied in my worklife include nurturing and helping others, leisure, prestige and recognition, intellectual status, and adventure/excitement.

Work Activitiy Interests: The kind of jobs I enjoy most are managing people, advocating positions, building teams, inventing new ways of doing things, and solving organizational problems.

(People, Data, Physical, Adaptive):

The skills at which I excel and which I feel have allowed me to be successful include acting assertively, influencing others, delegating responsibility, managing people, and making decisions. The skills that I am currently working on to improve in my worklife include understanding behavior, listening attentively, reading technical information, showing warmth and support, and writing creatively.

I consider the following adaptive skills as a source of strength: being challenge seeking, imaginative, self-disciplined, resourceful, and a risk-taker. In order to round out my executive abilities, I need to be more encouraging of others, tolerant of othersí mistakes, patient, versatile, and expressive.

The following barriers have at times kept me from achieving all that I could and will need to be managed more consciously: all-or-nothing behavior, distrust of intuition, inflexible, sense of lack of creativity, and perfectionism.