A FREE program for colleges, universities, and career centers that gives every student:
Developed and scientifically validated by Industrial-Organizational psychometric psychologists, at no cost to your career center.
TraitDNA™ is a psychometric work-style measurement, developed by Industrial-Organizational psychologists and benchmarked against the U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET occupational framework. Your career center is scored on graduate outcomes, not measurements completed, so every part of TraitDNA™ is built around the things that actually move a student from measured to hired: a cultural fit credential employers value, evidence-based AI readiness with a clear path to close any gap, and awareness of occupations they qualify for but never considered.
Employers consistently rank cultural fit and soft skills among the top factors in a hiring decision, often ahead of the resume itself. TraitDNA™ gives every student a documented, verified Career Readiness Certification and a shareable badge to put in front of an employer. Not a self-reported claim, a measured one.
More employers are screening for AI fluency, and most candidates can only offer a resume line about it. This combines a measured AI Readiness Score™ with a scientifically validated Critical Thinking measurement, not a self-reported score, and a separate view of how AI is already reshaping the occupations they’re applying for, then turns it into personalized AI upskilling recommendations that tell students exactly what to learn next.
Most students walk in asking about one job title. This benchmarks their measured strengths against 926 O*NET occupations to surface adjacent roles they already qualify for, often without additional training.
Most career centers already screen students with a Holland Code (RIASEC) interest inventory, and it’s a legitimate tool. But it answers a narrower question: what would a student enjoy. TraitDNA™ answers a different one: where are they likely to succeed.
RIASEC tools measure 6 broad interest types and match them to occupations, including many in O*NET. That narrows the field to what a student finds engaging, but it doesn’t measure whether their actual work style predicts success in that occupation.
TraitDNA™ measures 21 work-style traits, then benchmarks them against the same O*NET occupations for likelihood of success, not just interest, turning the result into a verifiable credential and a ranked list of occupations a student is likely to succeed in.
Every student who completes the measurement receives the full package below, organized around the things that move them toward a job: a hireable credential, verified AI readiness with a personalized upskilling plan, and a wider set of occupations and openings to consider. At no cost to them or your career center.
21 independently measured workplace behavioral traits, not a self-reported claim.
Shows exactly where a student’s measured strengths meet real occupational expectations.
A verified credential, plus a shareable badge, a student can put directly in front of an employer.
Shows how a student’s own work-style traits position them to adapt as their field is changed by AI.
An independently scored measurement of how well a student evaluates AI outputs and oversees agentic AI decisions.
A free, occupation-level look at how AI is currently affecting their best-fit occupations.
Specific courses and tools matched to each student’s own AI readiness gap, not a generic training list.
Expands their options to compatible occupations they may not have considered.
Flags when a student’s profile matches successful entrepreneurs, a path standard measurements miss entirely.
Live openings aligned with their best-fit occupations, pulled from ~95% of US jobs.
TraitDNA™ was developed with the guidance of a team of four Industrial-Organizational Psychologists, including three doctoral-level experts specializing in workplace behavioral measurement, occupational alignment, and hiring success prediction. Every work-style trait is mapped to and benchmarked against O*NET occupational success profiles, entrepreneurial success patterns, and current AI exposure data across professions.
Your institution tracks graduate outcomes and career-placement data it reports every year. TraitDNA™ gives the students your career center serves scientifically measured career intelligence, plus a documented, benchmarked data point behind every career and internship recommendation your advisors make. All at no cost to your college, university, community college, or career center, or to the students you serve.
Support student success, career-readiness, and graduate-outcomes goals with measurable, data-backed career guidance.
The GlobalProsEdge AI Workforce Initiative is GlobalProsEdge’s public-service program, built to help career centers place more students into jobs that fit, not just complete more measurements. The free TraitDNA™ measurement gives students a credential employers value, evidence-based AI readiness, and career paths benchmarked against the U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET database. There is no cost to your college, university, community college, or career center, or students.
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