Sample Career Portrait Snapshot

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.

Motivation

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.

Skills

(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.