Your personality type is ISFJ-The Nurturers .
Introverted (I) 71% Extraverted (E) 29%
Sensing (S) 55% Intuitive (N) 45%
Feeling (F) 69% Thinking (T) 31%
Judging (J) 64% Perceiving (P) 36%
Introverts often:
- Have quiet energy
- Listen more than talk
- Think quietly inside my head
- Think, then act
- Feel comfortable being alone
- Prefer to work "behind-the-scenes"
- Have good powers of concentration
- Prefer to focus on one thing at a time
- Are self-contained and reserved
Sensors often:
- Focus on details & specifics
- Admire practical solutions
- Notice details & remember facts
- Are pragmatic - see what is
- Live in the here-and-now
- Trust actual experience
- Like to use established skills
- Like step-by-step instructions
- Work at a steady pace
Feelers often:
- Decide based on their values & feelings
- Appear warm and friendly
- Are most convinced by how they feel
- Are diplomatic and tactful
- Value harmony and compassion
- Take many things personally
- Are quick to compliment others
- Are motivated by appreciation
- Avoid arguments and conflicts
Judgers often:
- Make most decisions pretty easily
- Are serious & conventional
- Pay attention to time & are prompt
- Prefer to finish projects
- Work first, play later
- Want things decided
- See the need for most rules
- Like to make & stick with plans
- Find comfort in schedules
Sensitive, caring, patient, and conscientious, ISFJs can take time to warm up to new ideas and people. Painstakingly accurate and methodical when working with facts and details, ISFJs are patient with follow-through tasks. They tend to take commitments and deadlines very seriously, have excellent memories and are especially good at remembering details pertaining to people. They are patient listeners, eager to help people in real and practical ways. Quiet, private and reserved at first, but once they make a connection they are exceptionally loyal, generous and devoted. ISFJs are down-to-earth and realistic people and use practical judgment in making decisions and lend stability through their excellent commonsense perspective. ISFJs are modest, serious and hardworking and highly supportive of friends and colleagues.
ISFJs Tend To Be:
• Sensitive to others’ perspectives; conscientious
• Organized and able to remember and manage lots of details
• Hard working; quick to help
• Practical, realistic & efficient; adept at executing tasks with precision
• Dependable & likely to take commitments & deadlines seriously
• Focused; able to concentrate for long periods of time alone
Career SatisfiersAll people are most satisfied and successful when using their natural talents in an environment that is consistent with their personality preferences and values. Research shows that ISFJs are most satisfied by jobs that provide the following:
• Clear expectations, objectives, & deadlines that do not often change
• Opportunities to work primarily one-on-one, helping others
• Plenty of time & space to work alone & concentrate on one task at a time without a lot of surprises or interruptions
• A manager whom they admire & who has their best professional interests at heart
• A friendly, cooperative environment, free from conflict or tension
Possible Career Paths for the ISFJ:
- Interior Decorators
- Designers
- Nurses
- Administrators and Managers
- Administrative Assistants
- Child Care / Early Childhood Development
- Social Work / Counselors
- Paralegals
- Clergy / Religious Workers
- Office Managers
- Shopkeepers
- Bookkeepers
- Home Economics
Personal reflection:
After taking the MBTI test, I have come to know myself better in terms of my personality. I have a clearer idea of what kind of a person I am, and I think this is very important. One should first know him or herself well before he or she can make changes to improve, whether it is to the environment, the people, or just themselves.
In the past, or rather, before taking this test, I use to think that being an introvert is not a good thing. However, after this, I have discovered through some of the information that being an introvert does have its good points of it though. In fact there is actually no good or bad between introverts and extroverts. But of course, there are definitely spaces that I can still improve on.
Through knowing myself better, I have also gain some confidence in myself. I still see myself as me, but then there is a slight difference in the way I view myself. I view myself as a person with both unique strong and weak points instead of just an ordinary girl. And compare to the test results of some of my friends, I am actually quite different, though there are some of them whom have the same result as mine. No doubt, the test results as well as the description of my personality were accurate; I am rather amazed by it. I have also realized some of the qualities that I have possessed but have not known it in the past.
Now that I have my strengths defined, I am able to use them appropriately to achieve my goals. Knowing my ability, I can then plan for my goals next year or even further in the future and am more realistic with it. Only then can I move on towards success, making good use of my strength and if possible help others in need with it.
As for my career path, I have also somewhat a clearer idea of what can I do or be in the future, given some of the possible career paths mentioned above. (Being a designer is one of my dream careers though, as well as a child psychologist.) Of course, these will just be some of the suggestions. Who knows, people might change as they grow, and there might be a wider career fields suitable for them then. Right now, I guess I can only do my part as a student and hopefully make the better out of me to prepare myself for the future ahead.
