ENTP
Extroverted, Intuition, Thinking, Perception
As an ENTP, career satisfaction means doing work that:
Popular Occupations for ENTPs
In listing occupations that are popular among ENTPs, it is important to note that there are successful people of all types in all occupations. However, the following are careers ENTPs may find particularly satisfying and some of the reasons why. This is by no means a comprehensive listing but is included to suggest possibilities you may not have previously considered. Although all of these occupations offer the potential for career satisfaction, the future demand for some careers is anticipated to be greater than for others. Based upon our research, the occupations that are italicized in the lists below are forecast to enjoy the fastest rate of growth over the next several years.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP/BUSINESS
ENTPs are born entrepreneurs! The appeal of these careers to the ENTP is the ability to create a work environment that is new, flexible, and changing. These careers often involve the interaction and participation of many people, creating new concepts and approaches, thinking in innovative ways, and engaging in a certain amount of risk-taking. The projects are often large-scale, requiring the development of big budgets and the participation of powerful and influential people. Remember, these are only some areas that provide satisfying expression for the unique natural talents of the ENTP.
MARKETING/CREATIVE
The fields of marketing, advertising, and public relations allow the ENTP to be involved with other creative people, developing and implementing their ideas, often in creative and exciting ways. ENTPs enjoy the fast-paced, sometimes glamorous world of public relations and advertising and are able to use their charm and people skills selling their ideas and concepts. Market research requires ENTPs to use their abilities to spot trends. It also stimulates and satisfies their insatiable curiosity and active imagination.
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Careers in planning and development require the ability to use one’s vision and anticipate trends and formulate creative plans. Developers work on speculative projects, often needing to convince others of their merit and potential for success, an activity ENTPs enjoy and often excel at. Developers also need to remain flexible, adapting to new opportunities, ready to put together new “deals” without much preplanning or notice. ENTPs enjoy careers in strategic planning if they are allowed to focus on the development of innovative solutions to problems and then delegate the follow-through of the details to others.
POLITICS
These occupations allow ENTPs to use their ideas, knowledge, and personal sophistication in a highly charged, fast-paced, and powerful arena. ENTPs are able to use their abilities to see trends, themes, and public opinion shifts and adapt to those changes. ENTPs are drawn to the powerful and enjoy working with a variety of different people. The world of politics requires they meet and establish rapport quickly with those whom they wish to influence. ENTPs often enjoy public speaking and can be excellent orators, using figurative, expansive language, and expressing great vision.
MISCELLANEOUS
Your work-related strengths may include:
Your work-related weaknesses may include:
Using your strengths is easy. The secret to success for an ENTP is learning to: Prioritize, focus, and follow through — especially with commitments made to others.
- Gives me opportunities to engage in creative problem solving and/or generate new and innovative approaches to problems
- Lets me implement my innovative solutions in the creation of more efficiently functioning systems
- Acknowledges and encourages my creativity, competency, and ability to improvise
- Lets me experience a variety of situations filled with fun, action, and excitement
- Follows a logical order and is based upon objective and fair standards, rather than the likes or dislikes or one individual
- Lets me increase my professional and personal power and interact frequently with other powerful people
- Lets me meet and have constant interaction with many different people, especially those I respect
- Can be done in a rapidly changing, high-energy environment with significant interaction with others
- Is done in an environment that is casual and unstructured; where I can experience a high degree of personal freedom, time off, and the opportunity to operate in a spontaneous way
- Allows me to design or start projects but does not require me to follow through with tedious details
Popular Occupations for ENTPs
In listing occupations that are popular among ENTPs, it is important to note that there are successful people of all types in all occupations. However, the following are careers ENTPs may find particularly satisfying and some of the reasons why. This is by no means a comprehensive listing but is included to suggest possibilities you may not have previously considered. Although all of these occupations offer the potential for career satisfaction, the future demand for some careers is anticipated to be greater than for others. Based upon our research, the occupations that are italicized in the lists below are forecast to enjoy the fastest rate of growth over the next several years.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP/BUSINESS
- Entrepreneur
- Inventor
- Management consultant
- Venture capitalist
- Literary agent
- Photographer
- Journalist
- Owner: restaurant/bar
- Actor
- Outplacement consultant
- Technical trainer
- Diversity manager/trainer
- Management consultant: marketing/reorganization/compensation
- University/college president
- Property manager: commercial/residential
- Attorney: litigator
- Sales agent: securities and commodities
- Agent and business manager
- Urban and regional planner
- Human resources recruiter
- Ombudsman
- Security analyst
- Manufacturer’s service representative
- Hotel and motel manager
- Employee relations specialist
ENTPs are born entrepreneurs! The appeal of these careers to the ENTP is the ability to create a work environment that is new, flexible, and changing. These careers often involve the interaction and participation of many people, creating new concepts and approaches, thinking in innovative ways, and engaging in a certain amount of risk-taking. The projects are often large-scale, requiring the development of big budgets and the participation of powerful and influential people. Remember, these are only some areas that provide satisfying expression for the unique natural talents of the ENTP.
MARKETING/CREATIVE
- Advertising creative director
- Public relations specialist
- Marketing researcher/planner
- Sports marketing
- Radio/TV talk show host
- Producer
- Art director (magazine)
- International marketing
- Informational-graphics designer
- New business development: information services
- Creative director on multimedia team
- Desktop publishing specialist
- Internet marketer
- Internet architect
- Creative writer
- Copy writer
- Director: stage, motion pictures
- Columnist, critic, and commentator
- Reporter and correspondent
- Broadcast news analyst
The fields of marketing, advertising, and public relations allow the ENTP to be involved with other creative people, developing and implementing their ideas, often in creative and exciting ways. ENTPs enjoy the fast-paced, sometimes glamorous world of public relations and advertising and are able to use their charm and people skills selling their ideas and concepts. Market research requires ENTPs to use their abilities to spot trends. It also stimulates and satisfies their insatiable curiosity and active imagination.
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
- Strategic planner
- Personnel systems developer
- Real estate agent/developer
- Special projects developer
- Investment broker
- Computer analyst
- Industrial design manager
- Logistics consultant (manufacturing)
- Network integration specialist (telecommunications)
- Financial planner
- Investment banker
- Urban planner
Careers in planning and development require the ability to use one’s vision and anticipate trends and formulate creative plans. Developers work on speculative projects, often needing to convince others of their merit and potential for success, an activity ENTPs enjoy and often excel at. Developers also need to remain flexible, adapting to new opportunities, ready to put together new “deals” without much preplanning or notice. ENTPs enjoy careers in strategic planning if they are allowed to focus on the development of innovative solutions to problems and then delegate the follow-through of the details to others.
POLITICS
- Politician
- Political manager
- Political analyst
- Social scientist
These occupations allow ENTPs to use their ideas, knowledge, and personal sophistication in a highly charged, fast-paced, and powerful arena. ENTPs are able to use their abilities to see trends, themes, and public opinion shifts and adapt to those changes. ENTPs are drawn to the powerful and enjoy working with a variety of different people. The world of politics requires they meet and establish rapport quickly with those whom they wish to influence. ENTPs often enjoy public speaking and can be excellent orators, using figurative, expansive language, and expressing great vision.
MISCELLANEOUS
- Chiropractor
- Environmental scientist
- Educational psychologist
- Athletic coach and scout
- Criminalist and ballistics expert
- Detective
Your work-related strengths may include:
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to get others excited about your ideas
- Eagerness to “think outside the box” and consider new possibilities
- Great creative problem-solving skills
- Courage to take some risks, try new things, and overcome obstacles
- Broad range of interests and ability to learn new things quickly
- Ability to withstand rejection and maintain optimism and enthusiasm
- Great confidence and drive to continually increase your knowledge
- Natural curiosity and skills for getting the information you need
- Ability to see the big picture and the implications of actions and ideas
- Ability to juggle several projects at once Perceptiveness about people — their needs and motivations
- Adaptability and ease shifting gears and changing directions quickly
- Great social ease and ability to fit comfortably into most social situations
Your work-related weaknesses may include:
- Trouble keeping yourself organized
- Difficulty setting priorities and making decisions
- Overconfidence; you may misrepresent your abilities or experience
- Propensity to always focus on what’s possible rather than what’s doable or probable
- Tendency to promise more than you can deliver
- Impatience with unimaginative or inflexible people
- Tendency to lose interest in projects once problems are solved
- Dislike of doing things in traditional, established, or routine manner
- Lack of discipline when it comes to attending to and following through on important details
- Tendency to become bored or easily sidetracked
- Dislike of repetitive tasks Impatience with people whose competence you question
Using your strengths is easy. The secret to success for an ENTP is learning to: Prioritize, focus, and follow through — especially with commitments made to others.