Hi there!! I've been taking a career paths course at uni and my professor says I'm one of the oddest individuals he's met cuz I'm an ENFP with a STRONG CIS (RIASEC dealio where mine is organizing, investigating, and peopling) I've been googling more about ENFP and found a few of your stuffs so hey! I has a Tumblr now XD is my combo weird?!
So I’m not familiar with RIASEC (aka Holland Codes) but upon checking it out it looks faintly familiar and I think I had to take it in high school but not college. However I found an online version here so I took it to see what it appears to test though I know it might not be the official licensed version. I also checked Wikipedia for a description of the results. To sum it up for anyone not familiar, the test asks you how much you’d like to do certain things that could be elements of jobs, and then ranks you along six codes that describe aspects of jobs. They are:
Realistic: practical and concrete jobs, working with your hands. Usually like the outdoors. Probably correlates with Se the best.
Investigative: likes scholarly, scientific, and technical tasks that involve observation and analysis. This was my highest score; I suspect it’s higher among thinkers.
Artistic: like to work with ideas, abstractions, and concepts; creative types. The specific description of ideas/abstractions/concepts makes me lean towards the intuitive types but I think a creative sensor is likely to get this on the test, because the test itself checks more for ‘would you like to compose a song’ and not the cognition.
Social: like tasks that involve socializing, helping others, and teaching. I actually got this as my third score (just a touch higher than realistic) and I think it’s because I enjoy giving advice and teaching and answered yes to a lot of those questions. As a result my opinion on this is that the social questions, at least on the version of the test I took, might not give you the full picture. I like these things but I like them in the specific case where I am the authority. I would be terrible in cases where I’m the mediator or the diplomat. A better test (which the real RIASEC may be; if it’s what I think it is, the version I took in high school was like three times as long though it still asked what do you want to do rather than how do you think) would probably find that this score is higher among feelers.
Entrepreneurial: outgoing, persuasive, dynamic. Kind of the classic business leader vibe. I think this is by far going to go to the extroverts but it will be a mixed bag either way (ie, you’ll get a sample of all the extroverts, and not all extroverts of a certain type will get it).
Conventional: like practical tasks, structure, organizing, etc. Unsurprisingly my second-highest score by a hair (just beat out by Investigative). Definitely high among Si and Te users.
Did you take a test to find you were ENFP, or study? Because if you took a test...throw it out and study the functions and don’t assume you’re an ENFP. If you studied it’s a bit more complicated.
Investigative and social both fit ENFP fine. Social definitely does, and while I think investigative will be higher among thinkers I don’t by any means think it’s limited to them. I know ENFPs who are scientists and researchers and would would score very high on this. The one that gets me is conventional and specifically as your highest score. ENFPs tend to prefer less structured environments and while they respect the rules when they make sense, they aren’t as a rule interested in being the organizer or the detail-oriented one. Most of the ENFPs I know who would have Investigative and Social would have either Entrepreneurial or Artistic as their third result.
Without knowing where you came up with ENFP it’s hard to say more but this is a weird combination and if conventional were your third highest result I’d say it was a fluke but if that’s your highest I’d look critically at either your type or whether you answered the RIASEC honestly.
