Who – the kind of people you would like to work with

Richard Bolles, using the work of Dr. John L. Holland, describes six main people environments, excerpted from the 2008 What Colour is Your Parachute, pages 308-309:

  1. The Realistic-People Environment - filled with people who prefer activities involving "the explicit, ordered, or systematic manipulation of objects, tools, machines and animals".

  2. The Investigative People Environment - filled with people who prefer activities involving "the observation and symbolic, systematic, creative investigation of physical, biological, or cultural phenomena".

  3. The Artistic-People Environment - filled with people who prefer activities involving "ambiguous, free, unsystematized activities and competencies to create art forms or products".

  4. The Social-People Environment - filled with people who prefer activities involving "the manipulation of others to inform, train, develop, cure or enlighten".

  5. The Enterprising-People Environment - filled with people who prefer activities involving "the manipulation of others to attain organizational or self-interest goals".

  6. The Conventional-People Environment " filled with people who prefer activities involving the "explicit, ordered, systematic manipulation of data, such as keeping records, filing materials, reproducing materials, organizing written and numerical data according to a prescribed plan, operating business and data processing machines."

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