What work actually fits you
Pick a type. You'll get the conditions that tend to produce good work, the ones that grind people down, example roles, and the burnout pattern specific to that type.
ENFP The Champion
Optimising for: Possibility, people and variety — ideally in the same week.
Thrives with
- New people and new projects
- Freedom in how the work gets done
- Creative problem-solving
- Enthusiastic collaborators
Drained by
- Repetition
- Detailed record-keeping
- Solitary, silent work
- Micromanagement
Roles that fit the pattern
- Marketing and brand
- Journalism and storytelling
- Events and community building
- Teaching
- Recruiting
- Startup generalist roles
The burnout pattern
Spark death. Everything still sounds interesting, but nothing feels interesting — a signal the variety ran out.
If you're in the wrong role
Add one genuinely new element to the current role before concluding the role is wrong.
Common questions
- Can personality type tell me what job to do?
- No. It describes the working conditions a person tends to find energising or draining, which is useful for narrowing a search. It does not predict performance, and type instruments should not be used for hiring or promotion decisions.
- What if the type I picked does not sound like me?
- Read two or three neighbouring types. Mistyping is common, and the conditions described here are often a better match to a person than the four-letter label is.
- Why does my job drain me even though I am good at it?
- Capability and energy cost are separate. Most people leave jobs they can do well because the surrounding conditions — meetings, ambiguity, noise, reporting — cost more than the work itself returns.
How to use this
Type doesn't predict job performance, and no serious research supports using personality type to hire, screen or assign people. What it does describe reasonably well is the kind of working conditions a person finds energising or exhausting — which is the part that usually decides whether a job lasts.
Read the caveats in our methodology, or compare two types side by side.