Making a Successful Career in Marketing: INTJ

The term INTJ describes the traits of marketers as intuitive, thinking, judging, and introverts. When it comes to marketing, theories abound and each one has a claim as the best told for that purpose. A good marketer with INTJ will do well to do a self assessment and decide on how to go about in his job using his faculties to the best advantage and holding back his negative features. Using the MBTI is a good method for this purpose.

Any advice given with a harsh tone of compulsion naturally results in a rebellion. Good marketers have to be good in people management also and will have to show a lot of flexibility in dealing with problems. Suggestions that are good will have to be accepted. Lack of flexibility and rigidity in approach may result in people totally ignoring you and your recommendations. A person with good INTJ will have fresher and more ideas.

Marketing experts feel that using MBTI is a good method for choosing something which will suit your methods of work and personal preferences. This applies to the different types coming under INTJ. Introverts are people want to be left alone most of the time and feel greatly affected if their work demands that they interact with lot of people. While applying MBTI a person with original thinking capacity and immense drive to get work done and also to implement ideas. Such a person is the thinking on as described in INTJ.

Introverts of INTJ have been listed among various personalities who are in top of their professions. Some characters in fiction have been created as introverts as in the case of “Pride and Prejudice”. Great personalities like President Eisenhower and inventors like Thomas Alva Edison have all been introverts as termed in INTJ. Cultivating a great reputation of being an expert in their field of activity is a trait of introvert.

Judging correctly is a good trait of INTJ. However, being judgmental is something to be avoided. Persons coming under this group are suitable for marketing profession. They will be good at innovations producing attractive newsletters and blogs, doing case studies, putting them on view, good interaction with clients and leading people by creating new ideas. With all these treating people with respect is essential for any good marketing man. Personal preferences and bias have to be kept aside. One should also learn to accept things as they happen and move on instead of brooding over it.

ENFP for Career Counseling

ENFP stands for Extra Version Intuition Feeling and Perception. These are definitions of a person’s nature especially with regard to choosing a career, making good in that, or seeking a change. Each of them represent a personal trait and will determine the suitability or otherwise for a particular type of career. A person with extra version trait of ENFP is deemed to be suitable for a career in which he may want to work as part of a team and interact with clients and different people at different levels.

People with extra version trait of ENFP are suitable for fast paced work and are also good at making plans even while they are on the move. However, such people will not be suitable for independent work, detailing and also for extra time. Wrong usage of ENFP in this instance will result only in frustration. People with intuition are good at innovations, for solving problems, and meeting challenges. They can think in an unorthodox manner different from routine.

People with feeling of ENFP would love to work in a peaceful atmosphere. They are sticklers to rules and procedures and averse to changing the norms. They are people who avoid conflicts and tension and would like to build harmonious relationship with all people in whose company he may have to work. They have some strong views relating to human relationships and find it difficult when it comes to making tough decisions especially if they are likely to affect others.

People with good perception of ENFP can take up a career involving the necessity for adapting to changes in the work place. In fact, they love the changes and would like to make a career out of them. Anything new gives them a lot of excitement as also variety at the work place and the work being done. They are not bother about the results and do not mind the uncertainty of the outcome of nay project they may undertake. Such people are very orderly in nature and it will be reflected in the structured manner they do the work.

A person can assess on his own based on ENFP guidelines whether a career change is desirable and if so what should it be. It is a very useful method of self assessment to know what one is good at and where he may be a failure. A career change is only for those who work in intolerable conditions or a misfit in the existing job.