In fact, passing the Jung Typology personality test was a mandatory requirement for this assignment, and I should say that it was immeasurably informative and helpful as I have received an excellent opportunity to understand my personality. According to the test’s result, my personality type is Extravert (12%) Sensing (25%) Feeling (53%) Judging (38%) (ESFJ). In other words, I have a slight preference of extraversion over introversion and a moderate preference of sensing, feeling, and judging over intuition, thinking, and perceiving, respectively. In addition, I discovered that ESFJs are communicative and emotional people who respect the feelings and demands of others and try to help them and find a solution for any problem if necessary. At the same time, they are highly responsible and reliable, respect seniority, and learn fast.
In general, I agree that I belong to the ESFJ personality type as its description corresponds to what I have already known about my strengths and weaknesses. I am a highly communicative and approachable person who likes to listen to others and help them. As ESFJ, I have a considerably wide social circle that includes my family members, close friends, and classmates. When I communicate with them or with new people I not only allow them to share information and their feelings with me but try to interact in the most comfortable way for them.
At the same time, I am a highly responsible person who is not afraid of challenging tasks or stressful work. However, my emotionality has a negative impact on my skills of public speaking and conflict management as I frequently concentrate on people’s attitude to my performance or try to investigate what decision will be the most appropriate instead of focusing on my professionalism.
In relation to career and job effectiveness, ESFJs may be highly productive and successful workers if they are properly motivated in the correctly chosen area of occupation, such as management, sales and marketing, education, social services, nursing, and health care, fashion merchandising, or public administration. According to the motivator-hygiene theory of Frederick Herzberg, both low-level and high-level needs should be satisfied to keep an employee motivated (“Motivation and motivation theory,” n.d.). The basic needs for ESFJs include safe working conditions (as people with this personality type are frequently paranoid and overprotective) and a friendly working atmosphere (as conflicts are abhorrent for ESFJs).
In turn, for motivation and career progress, they generally require constant interaction with other people, including colleagues, management, and customers, and challenging practical tasks that will contribute to the development of ESFJs’ professional and communication skills. As previously mentioned, occupation and job characteristics play a highly significant role for ESFJs as these people feel satisfied, fulfilled, and content when they deal with practical tasks (Redmond, 2016). At the same time, scientific work may substantially limit their potential regardless of the ESFJs’ ability to comprehend illogical or insufficient information.
From a personal perspective, a suitable way to increase my strengths and reduce weaknesses is to communicate with people more and try to discuss disputable subjects. First of all, this practice will definitely improve my communication skills, and, as conflicts will be frequently inevitable, I will be more confident with a useful experience concerning their management. In addition, making short videos and posting them online will be helpful for the limitation of my fear of public speaking in the most suitable way as I will not speak in front of the audience, however, I will know that other people may listen to me and provide their feedback for my improvement in the future.
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Results: Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Type description: Guardians of birthdays, holidays and celebrations, ESFJs are generous entertainers. They enjoy and joyfully observe traditions and are liberal in giving, especially where custom prescribes.
All else being equal, ESFJs enjoy being in charge. They see problems clearly and delegate easily, work hard and play with zest. ESFJs, as do most SJs, bear strong allegiance to rights of seniority. They willingly provide service (which embodies life’s meaning) and expect the same from others.
ESFJs are easily wounded. And when wounded, their emotions will not be contained. They by nature “wear their hearts on their sleeves,” often exuding warmth and bonhomie, but not infrequently boiling over with the vexation of their souls. Some ESFJs channel these vibrant emotions into moving dramatic performances on stage and screen.
Strong, contradictory forces consume the ESFJ. Their sense of right and wrong wrestles with an overwhelming rescuing, ‘mothering’ drive. This sometimes results in swift, immediate action taken upon a transgressor, followed by stern reprimand; ultimately, however, the prodigal is wrested from the gallows of their folly, just as the noose tightens and all hope is lost, by the very executioner!
Personality type: ESFJ (stands for Extravert, Sensing, Feeling, Judging and represents individual’s preferences in four dimensions characterizing personality type, according to Jung’s and Briggs Myers’ theories of personality type.)
An ESFJ at odds with self is a remarkable sight. When a decision must be made, especially one involving the risk of conflict (abhorrent to ESFJs), there ensues an in-house wrestling match between the aforementioned black-and-white Values and the Nemesis of Discord. The contender pits self against self, once firmly deciding with the Right, then switching to Prudence to forestall hostilities, countered by unswerving Values, ad exhaustium, winner take all.
As caretakers, ESFJs sense danger all around–germs within, the elements without, unscrupulous malefactors, insidious character flaws. The world is a dangerous place, not to be trusted. Not that the ESFJ is paranoid; ‘hyper-vigilant’ would be more precise. And thus they serve excellently as protectors, outstanding in fields such as medical care and elementary education.
Career choices: ESFJs often find themselves in occupations that involve either a lot of direct interaction with other people (e.g. clients, other staff members) or involve responsibility for critical tasks (e.g. those that require complete attention or that may have serious consequences), or both. Very often ESFJs realize their potential in health care and various community care organizations. Other favored areas of occupation include social work, service-oriented professions as well as teaching (often at elementary schools).
JCIJung Career Indicator™ determines occupations and areas in which people of your type find themselves most fulfilled and content, are most successful, and in which they are likely most represented. The following listing includes examples of areas of occupation suitable from a personality type standpoint. The listing factors in the expressiveness of the four traits of your personality type: Extravert(12%) Sensing(25%) Feeling(53%) Judging(38%). Therefore, ESFJ type persons with different expressiveness scores might get a somewhat different list. Areas of occupation that are more aligned with your result appear first.
- Management
- Public Administration
- Hotel & Restaurant Management
- Sales/Marketing Specialist
- Fashion Merchandising
- Health Care
- Nursing
- Social Services
- Education
- Social Work
An extensive list of occupations along with personalized career tips for your type are available with Career Development Profiler.
Learning style
ESFJ Learning Style How ESFJs acquire, memorize and recollect information In ESFJs, interest in learning a subject is related to the question, “Will this help me in work with others?” The more positive the answer to this question, the greater their interest in the topic, and the greater their desire to actively engage in it and apply what they learn.
ESFJ’s are interested in studying something when they see the possibility of gaining new skills and putting them to practice. ESFJs find it easy to take in material when a significant part of it is devoted to the topic’s connection and relevance to people, and when it can be demonstrated with straightforward, real-life examples, as opposed to theoretical ones. They are capable of independently grasping material – mostly that of practical nature. ESFJs are also able to take in a substantial amount of information lacking significant logical flow. Whether or not the material is presented in a systematic and logical way has little impact on their learning.
ESFJs are good at remembering new material when their feelings and emotions are engaged, and when they communicate actively during the learning process. ESFJs are able to precisely reproduce learned information, especially if they associate it with any feelings. As a rule, mechanical memorization is highly accurate in ESFJs, so they are able to recall many details about rapidly changing information, like in a fast-paced slide show. ESFJs are capable of applying new material once they understand its details and nuances. They apply it most effectively in straightforward tasks. Working with material they have learned, understood, and internalized brings them great joy. Although ESFJs are highly tolerant to high levels of learning related stress, they prefer to evenly distribute their efforts when learning new material.
Communication
In communication, ESFJs are practical, concrete, and at the same time supportive and responsive toward the needs of the other party. They are certain of their reasoning and they want others to share it. ESFJs keep to a soft, but assertive communication style. They are clear sticklers to following communication standards and rules accepted in their circle or community. ESFJs have a fairly wide social circle including friends and acquaintances, e.g. people they have met during their travels, or at entertainment events. Many people like to converse with ESFJs about various issues of a practical or day-to-day nature, as well as about their impressions and experiences.
Business communication of ESFJs is intense and for the most part deals with solving practical problems, often related to management. Usually they are apt at on-the-fly communication on immediate practical tasks. However, such topics as scientific discussion or very technical ones can fail to elicit a strong response from ESFJs.
References
Motivation and motivation theory. (n.d.). Reference for business. Web.
Redmond, B. F. (2016). 11. Job satisfaction. Confluence. Web.