Career recommendations for Enneagram types (Type 2-Type 3- Type 4)

Career recommendations for Enneagram types (Type 2-Type 3- and Type 4)

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Enneagram is useful for exploring your personality type along with the basic motivations that help you shape yourself. It's also helpful to help you find your meaningful and fulfilling career journey. In this article, you will find some suggestions based on your Enneagram type that will contribute to how you can experience a meaningful career while doing the job you love.

The goal of filling the blanks between your Enneagram type and your career is not to confine you to a specific area. Rather, it is to help you understand what motivates you and how to connect it to satisfying work.

Type 2 and career recommendations:

Type 2 is a relational, selfless, caring, generous person and aims to please other people.

9 Enneagram types are divided into 3 basic potentials. These are the emotional, mental and physical potentials.

Type 2 has an emotional potential. But the feelings he has are directed at others. For this reason, Type 2 is empathetic, supportive, generous, and evaluates events associatively.

Also the main desire of Type 2 is to be appreciated.

Type 2 has potential:

* Warm: Due to its warm nature, it can easily connect with others in pairs and is often much loved by others.

* Giving: He is compassionate and can predict the needs of others. He's generous to them.

* Human-centered: Focusing on building relationships positively affects their capacity to step into roles where customer and human relationships are important.

* Altruism: He often pushes his own needs and feelings into the background to support and be with others.

* Praise: Being around a type 2 makes people feel very special and they approach him with confidence.

Key motivations affecting the careers of Type 2’s

How are Type 2’s motivated?

* Give others the opportunity to solve their problems

* Create an environment to make a difference

* Support

* Create an opportunity to help those in need

* Allow him to build strong relationships

How do Type 2’s become demotivated?

* If their needs and ideas are ignored

* If they feel unappreciated or undesirable

* If not in relationship with their environment

* If paperwork is considered more important than relationships with people

* If leaders or colleagues are overly critical or harsh

Type 3 and career recommendations:

Type 3; tends to be goal-oriented or practitioners. They are focused on success, they value success. They can be effective, capable and good at goal setting.

9 Enneagram types are divided into 3 basic potentials. These are the emotional, mental and physical potentials.

Type 3 has an emotional potential. But their feelings are determined by how others react to them. Therefore, type 3’s are typically ambitious, results-oriented, and energetic.

Also the basic desire of Type 3 is to be admirable, successful and respected.

Type 3 has the potential:

* Ambition: Type 3’s are ambitious and have the will and energy to strive to be the best in everything they undertake. They believe in their ability to suceed.

* Effective: A skilled type 3 knows how to do things efficiently and productively.

* Adaptable: As well as being willing to adapt to achieve their goals, type 3’s can skillfully adapt to different situations, people or environments.

* Focused: Type 3's high energy and enthusiasm for projects forces them to get things done and others to perform.

* Result-oriented: setting goals and achieving them is as natural as breathing for Type 3s. They focus on the outcome.

Key motivations affecting the careers of type 3s

How are type 3s motivated?

* Being accepted by colleagues and leaders

* Networking with new people

* Achieving results

* Guided by vision

* Achieving the intended goals

* Being efficient and practical

How do Type 3’s become demotivated?

• If "winning" is not clearly defined

• If they do not receive credit for their work

* If their work is not respected

* If ignored or reduced in value

* If feedback and communication is confusing

Type 4 and career recommendations:

Type 4 seeks depth and authenticity. They are in harmony with their emotions and the environment that surrounds them. They can be very creative, artistic and inspiring.

9 Enneagram types are divided into 3 basic potentials. These are the emotional, mental and physical potentials.

Type 3 has an emotional potential. They blend in with their emotions and experience them in a wide range of events. They are also aware of the feelings of others and the atmosphere around them. Therefore, Type 4 typically strives for precision, creativity, and originality.

Also, the main desire of Type 4 is to be original.

Type 4 has potential:

* Self-awareness: Type 4’s are aware of the feelings of themselves and someone else and try to understand these feelings. This allows them to connect in depth.

* Focusing on purpose: Adapting to what has meaning and purpose leads Type 4’s to express their goals and contributions to the world.

* Inspiring: Their creative capacities enable Type 4’s to uniquely express what matters to them.

* Sensitive: Type 4’s can understand what is missing and goes deep into the matters. Their sense-based intuition allows them to adapt to the environment at a high rate.

* Courage: Type 4’s do not avoid suffering and the more painful aspects of the emotional world. It gives them the courage to ask difficult questions.

Key motivations affecting the careers of Type 4’s

How are Type 4s motivated?

* Authentic expression of ideas, concepts and values

* Seeking creativity and vulnerability

* Open to new ideas and ways to do things

* Be associative

* Forcing others to grow or change

How do Type 4s become demotivated?

* If they feel misunderstood or excluded

* If they feel to be insignificant

* Focuses on logic and practicality

* Confrontational environment

* If there is no possiblity for new ideas

Compiled from www.enneagramgift.com.

By Azize Sahin, Educator