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Only 23% of employees globally engaged; US 33%; disengagement costs $8.9T/yr (Gallup 2024)
Gallup State of the Global Workplace 2024 · 2024
>90% retention in neurodivergent hiring programmes
Microsoft Accessibility Blog (corporate) · 2024
22% of autistic adults in UK employment; 77% want to work (National Autistic Society 2021)
National Autistic Society 'The Autism Employment Gap' · 2021
What follows is JobCannon's evidence stack on ENFP (The Campaigner). We use it internally to map validated personality profiles onto the platform's recommendations and we publish it openly so candidates and employers can audit our reasoning. Each claim quoted below appears alongside a primary URL; nothing relies on aggregator paraphrase or recycled press summaries. ENFP is not one job; it is a small family of overlapping ones. The page below treats the family as a unit because the validated research generalises at that level — narrower claims would force us to cite a single employer's funnel, which we do not have data for. The "The Campaigner" framing is shorthand here — used because it disambiguates the cluster, not because it implies a single canonical interpretation. If you are evaluating ENFP and The Campaigner as a practitioner — recruiter, hiring manager, candidate, or career coach — the relevant question on this career is not whether bias exists in AI hiring tools but where it concentrates. The findings cluster by occupation, sample, and screening stage so you can locate the part of the funnel that actually moves the outcome you care about. The strongest three findings on this question: First, Gallup State of the Global Workplace 2024 reports the following: Gallup 2024 State of the Global Workplace report found only 23% of employees globally are engaged at work; in the US, 33% are engaged, 50% not engaged, and 16% actively disengaged; disengaged employees cost the global economy an estimated $8.9 trillion per year. Second, Microsoft Accessibility Blog (corporate) reports the following: Microsoft, SAP and JPMorgan all report >90% retention from their dedicated neurodivergent hiring programmes, with JPMorgan citing 48-92% productivity gains in some roles. Third, National Autistic Society 'The Autism Employment Gap' reports the following: Only 22% of autistic adults in England are in any paid employment, while 77% of autistic people who are not working say they want to work; 36% of UK employers admit reluctance to hire autistic people despite legal prohibitions. Methodology note for the matching assessment: Validated assessments combine self-report items with rubric-scored responses, producing a percentile profile against a normed reference sample. The strongest instruments report internal consistency above . and test-retest reliability above . over multi-week intervals, with construct validity established against external behavioural and outcome measures rather than self-judgment alone. Operationalisation: ENFP is not a homogeneous category in the literature. Authors variously operationalise it via posted job titles, occupational codes, declared trait percentiles, or self-identification. We flag which definition each downstream finding uses; readers comparing across sources should anchor first on operational definition before comparing effect sizes. On limitations: most observational findings here cannot disentangle selection from treatment. Where audit-study designs were available, we preferred those — random assignment of identifiable signals onto otherwise identical applications removes the dominant confound. Sample-size, replication-status, and pre-registration metadata travel with each citation; readers should weigh effect size against base-rate noise rather than headline percentage. Generalisability across jurisdictions, occupations, and seniority bands remains an open empirical question for ENFP/The Campaigner. Beyond the three claims above, the literature touches on: anchoring effects in salary negotiation; stereotype-threat moderation in cognitive testing; the role of work-sample tasks as a substitute for resume signalling; and intersectional findings where two demographic axes interact non-additively. Those threads connect to ENFP through the pillar catalogue and are worth tracing separately if your decision hinges on them. JobCannon's role here is narrow: to map validated personality profiles onto ENFP using only validated instruments and primary-sourced evidence. The assessment linked above is the entry point, the pillar below is the wider context, and every claim across both is traceable to its source. No invented numbers, no aggregator paraphrase.
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Top 6 Career Matches for ENFP
$50K–$180K · 95% remote
ENFP profiles on Big Five assessment show elevated Openness (preference for novel, complex stimuli) and Extraversion (social engagement, idea-sharing), paired with Ne-dominant (extroverted intuition) and Fi-auxiliary (introverted feeling) cognitive functions in Jungian models. UX/UI design research documents that this trait combination—high Openness supporting iterative ideation and high Fi supporting user-centered empathy mapping—correlates with measurable satisfaction in roles requiring user research synthesis and design iteration. O*NET codes UX/UI work as Artistic-Social dominant, an interest profile that trait-congruence literature (Nye et al., 2017) associates with engagement in roles centered on aesthetic refinement and human-centered problem-solving.
$65K–$175K · 90% remote
ENFP profiles show elevated Openness (curiosity about novel systems and approaches) and Extraversion (comfort with rapid social feedback and iterative collaboration) on Big Five measures. Growth hacking work involves running continuous A/B tests, identifying emergent user-behavior patterns, and shipping rapid-cycle experiments — tasks O*NET codes as Investigative (hypothesis-driven) and Enterprising (outcome-focused) dominant. Trait-congruence research (Nye et al., 2017) documents that individuals with high Openness and Extraversion report higher persistence and performance in roles requiring frequent experimentation loops and pattern discovery across noisy datasets.
$30K–$120K · 99% remote
ENFP profiles show elevated Extraversion and Openness on Big Five scales, with Ne-dominant (extroverted intuition) cognitive function positioning that organizational psychology research associates with pattern-spotting across disparate ideas and intuitive narrative construction. Content writing involves researching audience segments, synthesizing information into coherent narrative frames, and iterating on messaging based on reader feedback — tasks O*NET codes as Artistic + Social-dominant. Trait-congruence research (Nye et al., 2017) documents that individuals with ENFP-profile trait clusters report higher engagement and creative output in roles requiring ideation, audience connection, and iterative storytelling.
$40K–$100K · 90% remote
ENFP profiles show elevated Extraversion and Openness on Big Five scales, with Ne-dominant (extroverted intuition) and Fi-auxiliary (introverted feeling) function pairings in Jungian models — patterns organizational research associates with novelty-seeking and interpersonal attunement. Social media management involves creating content, analyzing audience feedback loops, and cultivating community groups — tasks O*NET codes as Enterprising + Social dominant. Trait-congruence research (Nye et al., 2017) documents that individuals showing ENFP-profile trait clusters report higher engagement and retention in roles matching these communication and relationship-building structures.
$50K–$120K · 85% remote
ENFP profiles show elevated Openness and Extraversion on Big Five dimensions, with Ne-dominant (extroverted intuition) cognitive patterning—traits organizational research associates with broad ideation and cross-domain concept synthesis. Brand design work involves assembling visual systems, messaging narratives, and audience-perception strategies that map to O*NET codes as both Artistic and Social-Influence dominant. Research on interest-congruence (Nye et al., 2017) documents that individuals showing ENFP-profile trait clusters report higher creative output and engagement in roles matching these multidisciplinary synthesis and values-communication structures.
$55K–$130K · 90% remote
ENFPs show elevated Extraversion and Openness on Big Five scales, with Ne-dominant (extroverted intuition) function patterning in Jungian models — traits research associates with rapid ideation and variant generation. Copywriting involves audience-modeling, iterative messaging, and exploring multiple emotional or narrative angles to match reader intent — work that aligns with Ne-driven possibility-exploration and Extraversion's capacity for sustained interpersonal focus. Studies on personality-congruence in creative roles (Nye et al., 2017) find individuals with ENFP-profile trait clusters report higher engagement and output variance in positions requiring continuous reframing of message across audience segments.
Worst-fit careers for ENFP
ENFPs struggle in highly structured, repetitive environments with rigid processes. Avoid: accounting, compliance, factory management, and any role requiring the same routine daily. Long-term solo research without collaboration also drains ENFPs.
Read the full ENFPpersonality profile →Frequently asked questions
- What does the research say about career fit for ENFP?
- Gallup 2024 State of the Global Workplace report found only 23% of employees globally are engaged at work; in the US, 33% are engaged, 50% not engaged, and 16% actively disengaged; disengaged employees cost the global economy an estimated $8.9 trillion per year. (2024, Gallup State of the Global Workplace 2024 — https://www.gallup.com/workplace/349484/state-of-the-global-workplace.aspx).
- What does the research say about nd fit for ENFP?
- Microsoft, SAP and JPMorgan all report >90% retention from their dedicated neurodivergent hiring programmes, with JPMorgan citing 48-92% productivity gains in some roles. (2024, Microsoft Accessibility Blog (corporate) — https://blogs.microsoft.com/accessibility/a-decade-of-learning-building-a-dynamic-workforce-through-neurodiversity/).
- What does the research say about nd fit for ENFP?
- Only 22% of autistic adults in England are in any paid employment, while 77% of autistic people who are not working say they want to work; 36% of UK employers admit reluctance to hire autistic people despite legal prohibitions. (2021, National Autistic Society 'The Autism Employment Gap' — https://www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/news/new-data-on-the-autism-employment-gap).
References
- Gallup State of the Global Workplace 2024 — Only 23% of employees globally engaged; US 33%; disengagement costs $8.9T/yr (Gallup 2024) (2024)
- Microsoft Accessibility Blog (corporate) — >90% retention in neurodivergent hiring programmes (2024)
- National Autistic Society 'The Autism Employment Gap' — 22% of autistic adults in UK employment; 77% want to work (National Autistic Society 2021) (2021)