ESTJ: “The Supervisor”

Note: If you want to read about all personality types, please go to the 16 Personality Types. If you want to learn your personality type, please go take the Personality Type Test or or one of these more sophisticated Myers Briggs Career Personality Tests.

Some people call it the Jung Typology Test and others call it the Myers-Briggs Test.

ESTJ = Extroverted, Sensing, Thinking Judger

Nickname of ESTJ: “The Enforcer or Supervisor”

Main Qualites of ESTJ:

• Organized
• Routine
• Systematic
• Decisive
  

Good ESTJ Careers:

• Lawyer
• Chief Information Officer
• Compliance Officer
• Sound Technician
• Auditor
• Network or Database Administrator
• Office Manager
• Project Manager
• Dentist

Famous ESTJs & Fictional ESTJs

• Sam Walton, Owner and founder of WalMart
• James Monroe (U.S. President)
• Andrew Jackson (U.S. President)
• William Henry “Tippecanoe” Harrison (U.S. President)
• Franklin Pierce (U.S. President)
• Grover Cleveland (U.S. President)
• Harry S. Truman (U.S. President)
• Lyndon B. Johnson (U.S. President)
• George W. Bush (U.S. President)
• John D. Rockefeller
• Bette Davis
• Robert A. Taft (U.S. senator, son of Pres. Wm. H. Taft)
• Barbara Stanwyck
• Rev. Billy Graham
• Carrie Nation
• Elliot Ness
• Dale Bumpers (U.S. Senator, D-Arkansas)
• Phil Fulmer, head football coach of the U. Tenn Vols
• Pat Head Summit, head basketball coach of the Lady Vols
• Bill Frist, M.D. (U.S. Senate Majority Leader)
• John Heywood (c.1497-c.1580, collector of English colloquialisms)

Fictional ESTJs

• Lucy (Charles Schultz’s Peanuts character)
• Mrs. Harbottle (Herriott, All Creatures Great and Small)
• Mrs. Rachel Lynde (Anne of Green Gables)
• The Mayor (The Music Man)

These Web site were helpful for this article:

KnowYourType, TypeLogic, MyPersonality and SimilarMinds

I find these books useful:

• Introduction to Type
• The Art of Speedreading People

If you are enjoying the 16 Myers-Briggs Personality Types, you may also enjoy The 9 Enneagram Personality Types.