About Plum
Plum is a cloud-based pre-employment assessment solution which assesses candidates on their problem solving abilities, behavior and attitude, and social intelligence. Hiring managers select the most important qualities required for each role through a short role analysis survey, and Plum uses its inbuilt algorithm to calculate a role match score for each applicant based on their assessment responses and the output of the role analysis.
Plum’s Problem Solving assessment evaluates candidates’ capacity for logical thinking and their ability to solve new problems, using questions which require candidates to identify relationships and patterns. The test is designed to estimate each candidate’s ability to acquire new knowledge and solve work-related problems. The Personality Inventory test assesses 10 character qualities - assertiveness, compassion, openness, politeness, enthusiasm, self-regard, stability, orderliness, intellectance, and industriousness - designed to provide a comprehensive analysis of the most important temperament, traits, and dispositions of candidates. The test was developed with a forced-choice methodology, preventing candidates from increasing scores for all traits by falsely reporting their character traits.
Plum’s Social Intelligence test evaluates candidates’ individual differences in understanding social cues and their ability to anticipate the impact that different actions may have on the feelings and impressions of others. In the assessment, work situations are presented and candidates are asked to select the most and least effective courses of action that could be taken in response to the problem from several different options. Scores for the three sections are calculated in percentiles and color-coded, with darker colors representing more exceptional scores. Users can create and apply thresholds and filters to identify optimal candidates, and results are accompanied by short descriptions of the significance of the score. Candidates can then be shortlisted and interviewed using the provided structured behavioral interview questions.
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- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
We use PLUM for a stepping stone in our hiring process and it is a very helpful tool!
Reviewed on 2018/04/27
The biggest benefit is to filter out 10s - 100s of candidates to fit a particular style of work...
The biggest benefit is to filter out 10s - 100s of candidates to fit a particular style of work that you are hiring for. It is a huge time saver for that feature alone.
Pros
- Behavioral Analysis is great to filter candidates
- Building an ideal candidate profile
- Easy to sort through and determine which candidates are a good fit
- Simple to use for the potential candidate
Cons
- Monthly pricing doesn't seem right for this type of software. A per-job pricing would be ideal for the way that we use it.
- Account management is simple, but seems lacking on a few features
- It would be nice to have another section or custom sections for different stages of the interview process rather than just "shortlisted" and "hired"... Many candidates go through several stages of the interview and sometimes want to keep track of that.
Response from Plum
Hi Devon - thanks for this feedback, and for making Plum part of your hiring success!
We've listened and added 3 new stages to our next release - Applied, Shortlisted, Interview, In Progress, Disregard, and Hired are all around the corner. For many of our customers who use an ATS we conform to - and integrate with the stages used here, to ensure a streamlined process across platforms and team members.
To see the best value with Plum we encourage you to have any and all applicants take the assessment - whether or not you have an open requisite or job criteria. This will highlight rockstars in your talent pool, and give you a sourcing headstart when a new job is posted.
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Fastest, the most accurate psychometric tool to date. Our organization did extensive research.
Reviewed on 2018/07/17
Ability to pinpoint the exact types of personality for our team' desires. Timeline to shorten our...
Ability to pinpoint the exact types of personality for our team' desires. Timeline to shorten our screening process with 1000s of resumes.
Pros
The ability to save exponential amounts of time on screening candidates for our roles. The ability to understand humans more and more after reviewing their profiles.
Cons
The length of time can be challenging for some people but as long as it's presented properly, it shouldn't be an issue. A lot of the competition have 2-3 hour tests while this is 30-40 minutes.
- Industry: Pharmaceuticals
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Useful assessment tool
Reviewed on 2018/10/16
Pros
ability to assign candidates to different jobs
Cons
template incompatibility with our email software
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10
Nice insights, not so nice service
Reviewed on 2020/01/16
The tool provides interesting insights into the type of person you are hiring, which is important...
The tool provides interesting insights into the type of person you are hiring, which is important for understanding the most effective ways to manage and communicate with them. Unfortunately, we were having trouble determining whether the investment was really worth it and they were very rude and unhelpful.
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As personality profiles go, plum is really nice. Interesting text descriptions of the person and the match rating system is easy to understand.
Cons
Be careful! If you change an applicant to hired plum counts them against your hiring limit regardless of the reason. While they let you change the status from hired back to something else, they will count that applicant as hired and they refuse to accept any reason for changing it back. So don't make a mistake! They will be very rude if you do! The location of functions in the menu system is not very intuitive. Functionality is there but you have to hunt a bit and once you understand it you can find ways to make management easier.
- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Excellent screening tool for candidates
Reviewed on 2018/10/23
Pros
Results are genuinely helpful in assessing strengths and weaknesses of potential hires.
Based on the Big Five personality traits, I have a high degree of confidence in the validity of the results.
The additional hurdle of completing the survey effectively filters out unqualified applicants.
Customer support is excellent -- they are very open to sharing additional information and spending time with you to ensure you understand what you need to know.
Cons
I would like to see how employees rate on all 10 talents as opposed to just the top 5 that are used for scoring.
The methodology used for scoring should be a bit more transparent so that swings in results can be explained more easily. How is each of the top 5 criteria weighted? Do the bottom 5 influence the score at all? How do you aggregate each team member's match criteria to arrive at a single score? Is it done at the talent or sub-talent, or sub-sub-talent level?
It would be amazing if Plum implemented more ATS system functionality. As it stands, we still have to use a spreadsheet to manage and review candidates alongside their system.
Plum FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Plum.Q. What type of pricing plans does Plum offer?
Plum offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$750.00
- Free Trial: Available
Unlike many other assessment providers, Plum uses a per-hire costing model. This means that you pay based on how many hires you will make within a year. This is very different from the traditional pay per candidate model, which charges you for every individual who completes an assessment. At Plum we believe you should have actionable, data-driven insight for all of your candidates - and our pricing model supports this notion. Since you aren’t restricted by per candidate pricing, you can use Plum at the top of your hiring funnel and measure your entire talent pool - allowing you to mitigate bias, streamline your process, and make better shortlisting decisions.
Q. Who are the typical users of Plum?
Plum has the following typical customers:
501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Plum support?
Plum supports the following languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
Q. Does Plum support mobile devices?
Plum supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Plum integrate with?
Plum integrates with the following applications:
Greenhouse, SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite
Q. What level of support does Plum offer?
Plum offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Chat
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