The E type generally likes to work with people and ideas more than with things. People describe the E type as outgoing, adventurous, energetic, optimistic, sociable, self-confident, and ambitious. The C type has clerical and math abilities. The C type likes to work indoors and likes to organize things. The C type generally likes to work with papers and numbers.
People describe the C type as practical, careful, thrifty, efficient, orderly, and persistent.
Types that are next to one another on the hexagon are most similar. For example, Realistic and Investigative types tend to have similar interests, but Realistic and Social types tend to be different. Conventional types are closely related to Enterprising types but tend to be different from Artistic types, and so on. For example, we could say that one person is like a Realistic, or R, type. Another person might be more like a Social, or S, type.