E — The Enterprising Type

This type is one of Holland’s Vocational Personality Types. The Enterprising type can be described by the following characteristics:

Adjectives

adventurous, ambitious, authoritarian, dominant, energetic, enthusiastic, full of joie de vivre, impulsive, obtrusive, optimistic, popular, self-confident, sociable

Preferences & Values

• activities through which organisational or economic objectives can be achieved
• the economic and the political
• social tasks where they can assume leadership
• persuading others to their own viewpoints
• power, status, and material wealth
• working in expensive settings

Dislikes

symbolic, systematic and monitoring activities

Aptitudes

• selling
• dominating
• leadership,
• expresses self well: has a great ability with words

Common Vocational choices

business development coordinator, business executive, buyer, hotel manager, industrial relations consultant, manager, political campaigner, realtor, sales, sports promoter, television producer

Negative Traits

• no aptitude for science
• impatient with precise work or work involving long periods of intellectual effort

En"ter*pri`sing (?), a.

Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm.

© Webster 1913.