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Careers for ESFJ Personality Types

By Brenda Ellis, PersonalityPage.com

Whether you're a young adult trying to find your place in the world, or a not-so-young adult trying to find out if you're moving along the right path, it's important to understand yourself and the personality traits that will impact your likeliness to succeed or fail at various careers. It's equally important to understand what is really important to you. When armed with an understanding of your strengths and weaknesses, and an awareness of what you truly value, you are in an excellent position to pick a career that you will find rewarding.

The following traits are generally found in ESFJs:

  1. Organized
  2. Loyal
  3. Can be depended on to follow things through to completion
  4. Enjoy creating order, structure and schedules
  5. Enjoy interacting with people
  6. Warm-hearted and sympathetic
  7. Tend to put others' needs above their own
  8. Very good at giving practical care
  9. Very cooperative, good team members
  10. Practical and down-to-earth
  11. Value peaceful living and security
  12. Enjoy variety, but work well with routine tasks
  13. Need approval from others
  14. Receive satisfaction from giving to others
  15. Live in the here and now - dislike theorizing about the future

The ESFJ has two primary traits that will help define their best career direction: 1) they are extremely organized and enjoy creating order, and 2) much of their self-satisfaction is gotten through giving and helping others. Accordingly, they will do well at tasks that involve creating or maintaining order and structure, and they will be happiest when they are serving others.

The following list of professions is built on our impression of careers that would be especially suitable for an ESFJ. It is meant to be a starting place, rather than an exhaustive list. There are no guarantees that any or all of the careers listed here would be appropriate for you, or that your best career match is among those listed here.

   
 

Possible Careers Paths for ESFJ

Nurse
Teacher
Administrator
Child Care
Physician
Clergy
Office Manager
Counselor
Social Worker
Bookkeeper
Accountant
Administrative Assistant