We hear it time and time again, …

Sighs of relief were felt around offices everywhere when Google unveiled the …

Every employee has a different personality type – so do managers. So dealing with conflict in the workplace requires disparate measures. Your ability to resolve conflict will ultimately have a direct impact on your team’s ability to succeed, and…

Personality assessments have their pros and cons. Creating assessments to identify personality types best notifies clients what they have to work with in their office. Everyone works, behaves, and thinks differently, and a good test evaluates not on…

As a hiring manager, you’ve been tasked with fine-tuning your skills in finding the qualities of the company and candidate characteristics that match. You’ve spent enough time coaching employees to understand what works for your team, so your…

Agreeableness is an estimate of the point at which one tires of being defiant and turns to acts of submission. We recognize “challengers” and we notice “adapters” within the personality archetypal framework. These two polar ends…

Company culture is often defined (at least partially) by the employees within the organization. By using personality assessments…

Every employee works and learns in different ways, and knowing who works how is the best way to build productive and happy teams. At Vitru, we’ve distilled several kinds of employee traits into the five most predictive and important categories:…

Work culture is increasingly important, but few managers know how to cultivate a happy, engaged and productive workforce. Vitru was built to bring psychometrics, cultural fit and personality assessments into one place, so everyone has the tools they need to build better teams.

One way to foster innovation and creativity inside your workplace is to study…

When a region in the United States is mentioned, a few defining traits of an individual from that area probably come to mind. Think of the mannerly southerner or the hard-working midwesterner. Of course environment is a huge factor when it comes to the formation of personality, but just how accurate are those assumptions? One company decided to explore the idea of what…

When building out a team, a new division or staffing your company in general, it’s of course important to focus on skills, both hard and soft. You want team members to know what they’re doing and work well together. But many companies overlook the importance of building a diverse team, and there’s reason to believe, it hurts the bottom line. Here are some hard…

Matching open positions with the best fit candidates can challenge even the best of recruitment professionals. Liz Hall (@lizabethmhall), Executive Director of Training and Development at C&A Industries, Inc., on the other hand, has a pretty good grasp on the needs organizations have when filling open…

As the 9-5 goes the way of the typewriter, and cubicles transform into Ikea couches in our living rooms, everything about business as usual has changed. Even if your team is still functioning in the traditional office setting, your clients, customers, partners and vendors are always going to be scattered.

The tech boom has made virtual meetings very…

Special project on the horizon? Put a team together! See a need for innovation at work? Put a team together! Want to break down your workplace silos? Put a team together! Employers are starting to look at the assembly of a team as the duct tape of the workforce.

Don’t get me wrong, workplace teams can expedite special projects, create an innovative atmosphere and…

How do we work best? It’s a question on every manager’s mind, but it can be difficult to answer. There are lots of remedies, solutions and workarounds floating out there, but it’s not always easy to see what methods work best for your own staff. However, conducting the right tests can help you make key decisions while hiring and…

Imagine waking up from a coma to find the world has been over run by zombies, or worse, you’re part of a dysfunctional and ineffective team at work. Either way, the day in and day out trials are exhausting. The other night I was watching AMC’s hit show, The Walking Dead. As I went through a mental recap of the prior seasons, it…

Members only organizations are those with exclusionary hiring practices. They end up looking and feeling like a clone factory or old school country club. These practices not only stifle innovation, they create a feeling of “other” that people are getting pretty fed up with.

Academic, writer and entrepreneur, …

Until very recently, there have only been two options –introvert, or extrovert. You either prefer to live in a cave and do your shopping online, as to avoid as many humans as possible, or you’re a loud, abrasive, attention seeker. Those are your two options. Well, not anymore. As it turns out, there is a third category…

Company cultures can look and feel very different from organization to organization. Furthermore, the idea of cultural fit will vary greatly as well. Does it mean the clothes the candidate wears,…