ISFJs are sympathetic, considerate individuals who enjoy providing behind-the-scenes support to help those in need. They are loyal, organized, detail-oriented, and take their commitments seriously. ISFJs strive to create order and harmony through thorough and accurate work, while being respectful of traditions and authority.
Understanding the Thoughtful Nurturer: Traits and Careers of the ISFJ Personality Type
1. ISFJs are sympathetic, loyal, considerate,
and kind, and will go to any amount of
trouble to help those who need it.
They enjoy providing behind-the-scenes
support and encouragement.
Introverted Sensing
with Feeling
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2. Honor commitments – others rely on them
Are painstaking and thorough in organizing
so that everything is in the right place at the
right time
Handle with ease those details that matter
to others
Are cooperative, considerate of each person
General Strengths
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5. ISFJ
• The NURTURER
• The Assistant
• Protector
• Compassionate Assimilators
• Amiable Helper
6. • Service before self
• Protector Supporter
• Super-Dependable
• Conservator
• A high sense of duty
• Committed to getting the job done
• ISFJs work behind the scenes
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8. POTENTIAL STRENGTHS
• Ability to get things organized
• Preserve what works
• Build consensus
• People skills
• Set up effective procedures
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9. ISFJ
• Quiet, friendly, responsible, and conscientious.
• Committed and steady in meeting their obligations.
• Thorough, painstaking, and accurate.
• Loyal, considerate, notice and remember specifics
about people who are important to them, concerned
with how others feel.
• Strive to create and orderly and harmonious
environment at work and at home.
10. • Work toward obligations,
• Stable, loyal, Concerned about others Feelings,
• Through, Painstakingly Accurate, Non-Technical,
• may avoid Leadership but will step in when ask,
• Complies with organizational needs and hierarchy,
• Use personal influence behind the scene,
• May be pessimistic about the future.
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14. CAREER TRENDS
1. Occupations attractive to ISFJs provide
opportunities to nurture provide
opportunities to service in education, health
care, or religiously oriented jobs.
2. Over 35% of the top 50 are in health care.
3. ISFJs’ strong sense of duty and desire to
make a personal commitment help make these
careers attractive.
ISFJ
15. MOST ATTRACTIVE OCCUPATIONS
• Nursing
• Teacher
• Religiously Oriented Occupations
• Administrator: Social Services
• Librarian
• Physician: Family, General Practice
• Health Service Worker
• Food Service
• Private Household Worker
ISFJ
18. ISFJ
• Louisa May Alcott
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Barbara Bush
Charles Dickens
Terri Garr
Michael Jordan
• Robert E. Lee
Queen Mary I of
England
William Howard Taft
Kristi Yamaguchi