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Careers for ENTJ Personality Types

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Whether you're a young adult trying to find your place in the world, or a not-so-young adult trying to find out if you're moving along the right path, it's important to understand yourself and the personality traits that will impact your likeliness to succeed or fail at various careers. It's equally important to understand what is really important to you. When armed with an understanding of your strengths and weaknesses, and an awareness of what you truly value, you are in an excellent position to pick a career that you will find rewarding.

The following traits are generally found in ENTJs:

  1. Driven to turn theories into plans
  2. Highly value knowledge
  3. Future-oriented
  4. Natural leaders
  5. Impatient with inefficiency and incompetence
  6. Want things structured and orderly
  7. Excellent verbal communication skills
  8. Dislike routine, detail-oriented tasks
  9. Self-confident
  10. Decisive

ENTJs are especially well-suited to be leaders and organization builders. They have the ability to clearly identify problems and innovative solutions for the short and long-term well-being of an organization. Having a strong desire to lead, they're not likely to be happy as followers. ENTJs like to be in charge, and need to be in charge to take advantage of their special capabilities.

The following list of professions is built on our impression of careers that would be especially suitable for an ENTJ. It is meant to be a starting place, rather than an exhaustive list. There are no guarantees that any or all of the careers listed here would be appropriate for you, or that your best career match is among those listed here.

     

Possible Careers Paths for ENTJ

   Business Executive
   Organization Builder
   Entrepreneur
   Computer Consultant
   Lawyer
   Judge
   Business Administrator
   Business Manager
   University Professor

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