Signature III · The Individual
SignatureIQ : Work Behaviour
How a person naturally works, wherever they are in their career.
Work Behaviour reads the way a person decides, executes, collaborates, communicates and recovers. It needs no organisational baseline and presumes no seniority, so a first-time job seeker and a seasoned professional can answer it with equal honesty.
Skills tell you what someone can do. Behaviour tells you how they will do it.
Why It Matters
A CV records history. It says nothing about habits.
Two people can share the same degree, the same skills and the same experience, and still work in entirely different ways. One weighs every decision; the other moves at once. One finds energy in a team; the other does their best work alone. These differences shape every working day, yet they rarely appear on paper.
Behaviour arrives before the job
How a person works is formed long before their first role. It travels with them into every organisation they join.
Open to everyone
Nothing here assumes a team to manage, a budget to own or years of experience. Every situation is one any working person can recognise.
Clarity at any scale
Light enough to use whenever many people are being considered, yet clear enough that every reading means something to the person who must act on it.
How It Reads a Person
Every choice has a cost. That is the point.
A person answers a series of short, everyday working situations. In each, they choose between two reasonable responses, and each response shows what it would cost. With no obviously right answer, people choose the way they genuinely work.
- Seventy forced choices across fourteen dimensions
- Situations drawn from ordinary working life
- Each dimension read as Strong or Moderate, stated plainly
An illustrative situation
It is the last day before a deadline. A colleague asks for an hour of your help on something that matters to them.
Neither answer is better. One choice alone means little; across many situations, a consistent pattern emerges. That pattern is the signature.
A Glimpse of Two Dimensions
Two ends. Both strengths.
Every dimension describes a range between two natural ways of working. Choose a dimension and an end to see how each is described.
Strong · Deliberate
Prefers to understand a situation fully before committing. Gathers more, weighs the options and decides once. Brings care and fewer reversals; may need more time when the moment calls for speed.
What the Report Gives
The whole person first. Then the detail.
The report is written for the hiring manager. It opens with what defines this person most clearly, then lays out the full picture.
Headline traits
The five clearest features of how this person works, on the first page.
The full profile
Every dimension described: where the person sits, what that brings and what it may ask of others.
Rankings
People are described, never ranked against each other. A profile is not a position in a queue.
What it does
- Reads anyone, at any stage of their career
- Works on its own, with no baseline required
- Describes fourteen dimensions of working behaviour
- Gives hiring managers a clear, honest picture
What it deliberately does not do
- Pass or fail anyone
- Rank people against each other
- Label any way of working as better
- Improvise interpretation; every word is pre-written
Everyone works in their own way.
Now you can see it.