Plum provides a cloud‑based assessment platform that quantifies durable soft‑skill dimensions such as adaptability, decision‑making and communication through validated psychometric tests. Its Plum Role Model™ engine translates any job description into a data‑driven behavioral blueprint for over 40,000 roles, delivering a predictive fit score, structured interview guides and bias‑audit compliance for hiring teams, while also supporting employee onboarding and career development.
Funding
$5.9M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Organizations rely heavily on resumes and traditional screening methods, which provide limited insight into a candidate’s ability to think, adapt, and solve problems. This leads to frequent mis‑hires, low quality of hire, and difficulty building teams that can meet evolving business demands.
Solution
Plum offers a cloud‑based pre‑employment assessment that quantifies durable soft skills such as adaptability, decision‑making, communication, and resilience. The platform uses scientifically validated psychometric tests and the Plum Role Model™ engine, which translates job descriptions into data‑driven behavioral blueprints covering over 40,000 roles. Assessment results are scored against these blueprints, enabling hiring teams to predict on‑the‑job performance up to four times more accurately than a resume alone. The system also generates structured interview guides and provides bias‑audit compliance, helping recruiters conduct fair, consistent interviews and make data‑backed hiring decisions. For existing employees, Plum extends the same skill insights to support onboarding, career development, and internal mobility.
Target Audience
Primary customers are talent acquisition and HR teams at mid‑size to large enterprises across finance, pharma/biotech, healthcare, logistics, and recruitment process outsourcing firms, as well as HR technology platforms seeking to embed durable‑skill analytics into their hiring workflow.
Features
- Validated psychometric assessment that measures 30+ durable soft‑skill dimensions in a 15‑minute online test
- Plum Role Model™ mapping engine that creates role‑specific behavioral blueprints from any job description, supporting 40,000+ titles
- Predictive analytics dashboard that scores candidates against role blueprints and ranks fit with a single “fit score”
- Automated interview guide generator that produces structured, bias‑reduced question sets aligned to the identified durable skills
- Cloud‑hosted reporting API for seamless integration with applicant tracking systems and HRIS platforms
- Enterprise‑grade security and compliance, including third‑party bias audit certification (NYC LL144) and GDPR‑ready data handling
- Employee development module that extends assessment results to onboarding pathways, skill‑based career planning, and internal talent mobility
- Industry‑specific solution packs (finance, pharma/biotech, healthcare, logistics, RPO) with pre‑configured role models and benchmark data