Your Personality Type:
ESTJ
EExtravert. Outer-directed; active,
energetic, outgoing, and assertive;
versatile with broad interests
SSensor. Practical & task-oriented;
prefer action over reflection; excel at
handling details & concrete tasks
TThinker. Use logical analysis to
make decisions; attuned to facts,
consistency & fairness
JJudger. Outwardly firm, direct,
and decisive; conveying closure;
planful & conscientious
ESTJs’ Dominant Function
Rationally structures & organizes ideas, things & processes; consults established facts & methods in decision-making
ESTJs’ Auxiliary Function
Stabilizes beliefs, decisions & behavior by drawing on past experience & learning; embraces the “tried and true”
Key ESTJ Traits:
- Hardworking, dutiful, responsible, organized, and task-oriented
- Outwardly confident, decisive, and unselfconscious
- Readily proffer advice and opinions to others, even if unsolicited; commonly assume leadership roles
- “Straight-shooters”: exhibit a direct (at times blunt) communication style
- Highly competitive; rarely back down from confrontation
- Maintain and defend strong beliefs regarding right and wrong, truth and falsehood; evaluate their own and others’ behavior according to these suppositions
- Sustain routines and traditions that substantiate familial bonds and continuity with the past
- Typically quite loyal to friends and family, but may turn on those who’ve wronged them or violated their core principles
- Tend to downplay their own emotional needs and misfortunes; exhibit a stoic, “no nonsense” approach to life; tend to see emotions as inconvenient disruptions
- May be perceived as unsympathetic to other people’s struggles or difficulties
- Efficient, organized, and planful; live by the calendar
- Prefer clear guidelines and expectations (and their enforcement) in the workplace
- Reliable team members, diligently and efficiently carrying out their duties
- Often oriented to status and career advancement
- Drawn to sales, management and enterprising careers; business, law, marketing, real estate, finance, medicine, etc.
Learn More about ESTJs in Our Books:
My True Type: Clarifying Your Personality Type, Preferences & Functions
The 16 Personality Types: Profiles, Theory & Type Development