Sample Career Portrait

Human Resource Professional

Style

Work Type:

My work type is ENFP and my style is that of a "warmly enthusiastic planner of change." I am high-spirited, imaginative and able to do almost anything that interests me. I like to solve the problems that people have and am innovative and can see new ways of doing things. I have a lot of energy and initiative and use my feeling judgment to add depth to my insights. I like to work in an organization where there are not too many constraints and where my colleagues are imaginative and the work is concentrated on expanding human potential. I am a good networker and work hard to keep up with both friends and colleagues. I am sympathetic to others and have good insights into other peopleís personal problems.

Career Type:

My primary career type is "social." I have a high interest in people and have based my career on working with people to help them improve their potential. My secondary career type is " investigative." I am interested in analyzing things although I would not want my whole job to be about facts and figures. I do have an analytical mind and like to use it in solving problems. I love a good intellectual discussion about things that interest me, especially when they concern how people behave at work and how that behavior can be modified or improved. My tertiary career type is "enterprising." I am adventurous and persuasive. I am popular, assertive, and self-confident and enjoy leadership roles. I have lots of professional and personal relationships.

Work Environment Interests:

I want to be around people who are interested in interacting with others regularly, concerned and empathetic about me, focused in their conversations on their work, interested in cultural ideas and activities, and zealous about the company. I like working in the city, in a large, open office, with some travel. I want my office to be well-appointed with everything in its place.

Career Drivers:

My primary career driver is "social contribution." My work has to do with serving people so that they can become better at what they do and be more satisfied in their work and their lives. I chose the field of human resources because I wanted to be involved in working with people and wanted to be able to express myself in a wide variety of ways. My secondary career driver is "professional achievement." I want to be as good as possible at what I do and be considered an expert in my field. I study a lot, go to conferences and seminars, and try to spend time with other experts. I would rather leave my organization than be promoted into a position that did not let me exercise my professional skills and continue to work at my career.

Values and Needs:

The most important values and needs that are currently satisfied in my worklife include knowledge, helping others, working with others, exercising competence, and independence. The values and needs that are currently not fully satisfied and that I would like to include in my life are challenging problems, advancement, prestige and recognition, helping society, and high earnings.

Work Activitiy Interests:

I love building teams, counseling people with substance abuse problems, delivering workshops, giving personal advice, and resolving conflicts among people.

(People, Data, Physical, Adaptive):

The skills that I use the most on my job and that I enjoy using are motivating others, tuning in to the needs and feelings of others, training people, coordinating events and operations, and presenting information logically. The skills that I would most like to improve are promoting ideas, managing conflict, maintaining schedules, understanding complex materials, and writing creatively. Improving these skills would allow me to be a more independent producer of results.

My most important adaptive skills currently at an acceptable level are being purposeful, dedicated to personal goals, dependable, spontaneous, and people-oriented. I need development in self-discipline, being firm, being a risk-taker, being challenge-seeking, and being systematic.

The internal barriers that most inhibit my success include having conflicting values, fear of looking foolish, low stress tolerance, being overly trusting, and being restless.