Introducing
Plum Role Model™

Reinvent how you define success. Instantly.

Role Model turns your plain-text job descriptions into science-backed blueprints for success in seconds. Because when you define the job right, hiring gets a whole lot better.

Every job deserves a Role Model.

Plum Role Model™ is the first automated job analysis built for the modern workforce. It decodes job descriptions into behavioral benchmarks, revealing the durable skills your roles actually require, like adaptability, communication, and execution.

What's broken?

When the role is poorly defined, even the best candidate can fail. Role Model fixes that by getting the job right first.

Subjective inputs

Role definitions often rely on feedback from SMEs, which can be incomplete or biased. Without standardized criteria, these inputs risk overlooking critical competencies or reinforcing existing biases in hiring.

Outdated process

Traditional job analysis takes over 140 hours per role, involving multiple internal reviews. It’s a slow, resource-heavy process that often can’t keep pace with today’s evolving business needs and hiring timelines.

Mismatch risk

Most hiring tools focus on evaluating people, not the role itself, creating serious blind spots. Without an objective understanding of what success looks like, organizations risk mismatching candidates to job expectations.

Role Model fixes the foundation

Proven & Accurate

Built by I/O psychologists and validated across roles and industries, Plum’s predictive models are grounded in science. They match expert-created benchmarks with over 90% accuracy, giving you trusted insights without the time or subjectivity of manual evaluations.

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Instant & Flexible

Turn any job description into a behavioral benchmark in seconds. Whether you're looking for a quick starting point or a more tailored experience, Role Model lets you toggle customization on or off to fit your hiring workflow. It's fast, intuitive, and adaptable to your needs.

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Fair & Inclusive

Plum’s benchmarks have been audited across 50,000+ users. They are fully compliant, defensible, and designed to ensure fairness. By focusing on potential rather than pedigree, Role Model helps you surface high-potential candidates often missed by traditional screening methods.

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How it works

Use your job posting or internal description for any of your roles.

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Role Model instantly pinpoints the right behavioral benchmark for your role. Add your own job experts to adjust your benchmark to your unique job.

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Your candidates are matched to the Role Model benchmark. From job description to hire in no time.

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Results you can see

Role Model builds on top of Plum's predictive prowess.

150%

more high performers in healthcare roles.

66%

fewer low performers in customer service roles.

2X

top performers in engineering and cybersecurity roles.

Trusted where it matters

Plum Role Model™ is explainable, auditable, and defensible, making it the smarter choice for organizations that demand rigor, equity, and results.

Frequently asked questions

Plum is a soft skills assessment platform that helps companies improve hiring and talent decisions by measuring human potential. Using science-backed I/O psychology, Plum identifies a person’s behavioral strengths, cognitive ability, and work style, translating them into durable soft skills like adaptability, communication, and execution. Organizations use Plum to make fair, data-driven hiring decisions and build a future-ready workforce.

Plum’s Role Model is the first automated job analysis tool that instantly turns any job description into a science-based benchmark of required soft skills. It analyzes your job post to uncover the behavioral competencies — such as problem-solving, innovation, or collaboration — that actually drive performance in the role. Role Model then enables you to match candidates to those benchmarks using Plum Profiles, supporting a faster, more predictive hiring process.

Most traditional job analysis methods are manual, slow, and subjective. They often require 140+ hours and rely on incomplete feedback from subject matter experts. Plum’s Role Model uses machine learning and industrial-organizational psychology to deliver accurate, bias-free benchmarks in seconds. It removes human subjectivity, improves consistency, and reduces hiring time while remaining defensible and compliant.

Yes. Plum’s Role Model is built to be flexible and easy to implement. Whether you want to consult a benchmark or create a Match Criteria from scratch, you can use Role Model alongside your existing hiring workflow. You can toggle it on or off depending on your hiring volume, level of customization, or the role’s complexity, all while maintaining accuracy and fairness. 

Plum Role Model supports fair hiring by eliminating bias at the job definition stage. Instead of relying on assumptions or outdated job templates, it uses objective, science-based data to define role success. Validated across more than 50,000 users with zero evidence of bias, Role Model helps organizations surface high-potential candidates that traditional screening tools may overlook, making hiring more equitable and inclusive.

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