Plum Role Model™ | 2025 Top HR Tech Products

HR Executive and the HR Tech conference have named Plum Role Model™ as one of the year’s Top HR Products. Selected alongside 11 other solutions, the tool was awarded for its innovative approach at the intersection of human resources and technology.

What it is

Plum Role Model™, an AI-powered job analysis tool, helps turn an organization’s traditional job descriptions into science-backed blueprints for hiring success in seconds. Role Model automatically determines the ideal combination of Plum Talents (soft skills) required for a role and instantly assesses candidates for fit, enabling faster and fairer hiring. Whether creating a new role or optimizing an existing one, Role Model equips talent teams with a fast, consistent and scalable foundation for durable skills-based hiring. By shifting the focus from pedigree to potential, Plum helps companies build adaptive, future-ready workforces equipped for the pace of change.

Why we liked it

What impressed us most about Plum Role Model™ is how it transforms the traditionally subjective hiring process into something scientifically rigorous yet elegantly simple. By automatically converting job descriptions into behavioral and skills benchmarks, it eliminates guesswork and creates clear definitions of success for every role. The behavioral science foundation, combined with ONET’s comprehensive U.S. labor market data, provides credible, bias-free assessments that product representatives say are four times more accurate than resume screening. We particularly appreciated how subject matter expert input can be seamlessly layered in, allowing organizations to maintain their unique requirements while benefiting from standardized benchmarks. The concept of creating a “role model” for each position is brilliant—it gives both hiring managers and candidates a concrete understanding of what excellence looks like in that specific role.

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