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17 reviewers had the following to say about Plum's features:
We are using the assessment to help with our sales recruiting process.
The biggest benefit is to filter out 10s - 100s of candidates to fit a particular style of work that you are hiring for.
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
- 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"...
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
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.
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.
Pros
As personality profiles go, plum is really nice.
Cons
If you change an applicant to hired plum counts them against your hiring limit regardless of the reason.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Another tool to assess culture fit within our organization.
Pros
Multiple users able to create assessment criteria.
Cons
Wording on assessments can seem a little harsh when a candidate scores low.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It is simple to use and it helps guide you towards what your criteria (soft skills) are for each role you are recruiting for.
Cons
The only thing that I can think of is the reporting is a little light as in numbers of people completed the assessment for the role, and how they scored.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
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.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It's like an applicant tracking system and way easier to sort through all the applicants than email.
Cons
Having the resumes in a format where you could more easily drag them into a folder or calendar invite for interviews.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
-helps you see in depth what potential candidates bring to the table -easy to use - contacting customer service is quick and easy as well
Cons
would like more functionality on the development side of people - for example if they have a growth area in managing others, what TED talks or books + chapters + reflection activities would they find useful?
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Easier and higher quality hiring.
Pros
It makes it really easy to review great candidates without going through hundreds of resumes.
Cons
The manager profile can take a little time to complete, but it's worth the work to get it done well!
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Rapid, cost-effective, successful hires
Pros
- Rapid reduction of applicant volume based on intelligent data points curated with contextual awareness to our organization's culture and roles - Speed to hire has decreased dramatically, alongside the investment of resources required per hire
Cons
- Certain advanced features are on the product road map but currently require manual assistance from Plum's (stellar) customer support team
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
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 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.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Easy to use - so simple to set up a new job/role profile in Plum and have multiple members of your team fill out key criteria for the role.
Cons
Navigation -- not as intuitive as I would have liked.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
This software helps me screen candidates and saves a huge amount of time when trying to decide the right fit culturally and professionally. It's the first stage of our hiring process and the results on candidates is quite uncanny!
Pros
The customer support and training is awesome and I love that it's a Canadian company.
Cons
This is not a con, but a "want": Looking forward to results that suggest what a good occupation would be for the candidate
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
see prior review comment.
Pros
The results. This tool helps us focus on key areas to verify strengths and weaknesses of candidates.
Cons
Difficult to make choices between important and 'not important', but understand that this is the nature of the tool.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Helped us define the right criteria and speed up our hiring process.
Pros
This software helped our hiring managers align on the right competencies for candidates. Identifying the needs of the role was a valuable exercise and the system helped us identify the right candidates.
Cons
Would be great if there was an easy way to see a description of all the match criteria.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
The software is easy to use, effective and very helpful in the hiring process!
Cons
I honestly don't have much negative to say about this.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Occasionally
Likelihood to recommend
