WHY TALENTS?

Plum’s Talent Resilience Platform quantifies human potential by mapping people to opportunities across your organization through the power of Talents. But what exactly are Talents?

Talent acquisition, development, and mobility decisions have traditionally been
informed by hard skills and knowledge—the specific set of learned activities required
for a job. Not only do these criteria not account for the changing nature of people and
jobs, but years of research prove how much bias they bring to talent management decisions.

Talents account for the fluidity of job responsibilities, business strategies, and people,
making them a more evergreen, forward-looking, and unbiased dataset on which to base
your talent process. While we find hard skills and knowledge on traditional resumes, Talents
are more difficult to measure—yet measuring them is a game-changer.

What are Talents?

Talents are recurring patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior. Often referred to as “soft skills,” Talents represent how we are consistently hardwired as humans. They include things like innovation, persuasion, teamwork, adaptation, and communication.

Why Talents?

Talents are up to 4X more predictive of success than job-specific skills and knowledge because they predict an individual’s behavioral competency for a role, rather than just their eligibility. The result is a more accurate dataset that informs unbiased decisions and truly supports a data-driven, inclusive culture.