Sample Career Portrait

Entrepreneur / Small Business Owner

Style

Work Type:

My work type is ENTJ and my style is that of the "intuitive innovative organizer." I enjoy being an executive and running my own business. I like to think ahead, organize plans, and make a systematic effort to reach my objectives on schedule. I have always sought leadership roles, am frank in my expression, and have tried to be innovative in creating a vision for the future of organizations to which I belong. I like to be well-informed and enjoy adding to my fund of knowledge.

Career Type:

My primary career type is "investigative." I am comfortable with abstractions, enjoy solving problems through the use of my analytical skills, love learning new things, and like to understand clearly how things work. I have been successful in an engineering job and have also worked as an engineering professor. In my current job, I am drawn to using computers and creating systems. My secondary career type is "enterprising." I am adventurous and drawn to power and leadership roles. I consider myself aggressive and self-confident, and have demonstrated social, leadership and speaking abilities. I have worked my way to the top of nearly every organization in which I have worked. My tertiary career type is "social." I am interested in other people and consider myself sensitive to their needs. I have taught professionally and value interpersonal relations. I often use my verbal and social skills to sell products and services to other people. I am cheerful, sometimes impulsive, and verbally oriented.

Work Environment Interests:

I prefer to work with people who are active, fast-moving, and energetic, who are focused in their conversations at work, practical and down-to-earth, highly competitive, and well above average in their skill levels. I prefer working in the city, a hustling, bustling office that is well-appointed and where everything is in its place.

Career Drivers:

My career driver is "self-determination." I am interested in doing things in my own way, on my own time, and as independently of others as possible. I would find belonging to or working for a large organization constraining. If I had to work for a big company I would be much happier as an independent contributor working on projects that I could create myself and for which I would have sole responsibility for the results. I also enjoy working in a situation where I can set my own projects, goals, hours, and ways of working. I own my own business because it gives me more freedom to do what I want. My autonomy is the last thing I would give up in making a job or career choice.

Values and Needs:

My most important values include independence, full self-expression, creative expression, challenging problems, and high earnings. I am attempting to include these values in my work by owning my own business and spending as much time as possible in the area of developing new products through the exercise of my creative abilities. The values and needs that I want to bring into more focus in my life include prestige and recognition, intellectual status, job tranquility, knowledge, and leadership.

Work Activitiy Interests:

I work hard to acquire new skills. I enjoy meeting new people, organize events, solve organizational problems, and manage people.

(People, Data, Physical, Adaptive):

My most important skills are working with abstract material and concepts, communicating abstract concepts, envisioning the future, writing narratives, and organizing information logically. I am attempting to use these motivated skills in my work by spending as much time as possible writing materials that describe abstract ideas in ways that people can easily grasp them and use them in their own lives. The skills that I need and want to develop to be more successful include acting assertively, managing people, persuading others, allocating resources, and monitoring and regulating workflow.

The personal qualities that work best for me include being ambitious, committed to personal growth, confident, creative, and hardworking. I need to work more on being assertive, demanding of others, methodical, persuasive, and caring.

The key barriers that inhibit my success include lack of assertiveness, being reactive instead of proactive, fear of not knowing, impatience, and restlessness. These developmental needs all relate to my need to do a better job building my business and developing and managing the people that work for me.