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 Search Reality

Job seekers are forced to piece together critical decisions from job boards, AI tools, and advice that were never designed to work together.

The result is wasted time, false confidence, and short-lived career moves..

Career Needs

A confident career decision requires measured personal fit, verified role alignment, real-time demand, current compensation reality, and a clear view of AI’s impact.

Missing any one introduces unnecessary risk.