Why How You Work Gets You Hired

How work-style behavioral alignment influences hiring outcomes

Key Findings at a Glance:

Hiring Has Shifted From Credentials to Work-Style Behavior.

Degrees, job titles, and technical skills no longer reliably predict performance or retention. Employers are replacing credential-based hiring with work-style behavioral alignment as the primary signal of long-term success.

Skills Open Doors. Behavior Determines Who Gets Hired.

Technical skills show what a candidate can do, but work-style behavior reveals what they will do under pressure, ambiguity, and collaboration. Most hiring failures occur when this behavioral dimension is ignored.

Work-Style Can Be Measured Scientifically.

Modern behavioral hiring is grounded in validated psychometrics, most notably the Big Five behavioral framework. These and related assessments quantify how individuals think, decide, collaborate, adapt, and perform across environments.

O*NET Is the Gold Standard for Predicting Job Success

The U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET database defines 16 work-style traits empirically linked to success across 900+ occupations. Mapping candidate behavior to O*NET benchmarks turns hiring from intuition into predictive science.

Behavioral Alignment Delivers Measurable ROI

Organizations that hire for work-style alignment see lower turnover, faster productivity, and higher profitability. Behavioral alignment reduces role stress, improves engagement, and directly impacts financial performance.

The TraitDNA™ Work-Style Assessment:

Developed and scientifically validated by I/O PhD psychometric psychologists at GlobalProsLabs.
Benchmarked against O*NET occupational success traits.
Role-specific alignment scoring, not personality typing.
Designed for hiring relevance, not self-description.

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Job market signals change.
Career strategies should too.

Actionable intelligence computed from your TraitDNA™ results and live market data, refreshed continuously to surface trends early.

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Hiring Indicators

Live demand signals from 95% of real-time US job postings, personalized to your best-fit occupations as adjusted for AI impact.

What this report shows

Measures hiring momentum for your best-fit occupations.
Tracks acceleration, stability, or cooling in demand.

Why it requires monitoring

Demand shifts often appear before layoffs or hiring surges.
Trend direction matters more than a single data point.

Compensation Alignment

How your salary expectations compare to real-time market pay for your best-fit occupations.

What this report shows

Compares your salary goals to real-time market ranges.
Identifies when pay leverage improves or weakens.
Filters for location, experience, type, and occupation fit adjusted for the impact of AI.

Why it requires monitoring

Market pay shifts continuously based on labor market conditions and new company postings.
Timing matters when leverage moves up or down.

AI EXPOSURE & RESILIENCE

See how your work style positions you to thrive as AI changes your occupation

What this report shows

Tracks how AI is changing tasks within your occupation
Highlights trends and provides 3 and 5 years projections. estimates.

Why it requires monitoring

AI impact is evolving rapidly across most all of our tracked 900+ occupations and 19,000+ associated tasks.
Small shifts can compound into long-term career risk or advantage.

Monitoring matters.
Trends, shape strategies.

All market signals are personalized using your TraitDNA work-style results

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