FAQ's

Profiling helps us understand a person's preferences to work and interactions which surface in the unique ways we perform, process, and think. From this information, we can have a better understanding of their grit, drive, sales energy, autonomy and more. To understand these preferences, our brain profiling test analyses three cores areas:

• Brain preferences - This looks at how a person engages with, processes, and communicates information. This is categorised by factors like structured, detailed, creative, or people-oriented.

• Application style - This looks at how a person applies themselves to work and certain tasks. This is categorised by factors like competitiveness, flexibility, and independence.

• Interaction style - This looks at how a person interacts with other people in group settings. This is categorised by factors like charisma, confidence, and extraversion.

With these insights, ploomo will then identify the archetypes the individual is most similar to and provide a summary of their preferences and personality type. For a further breakdown of the results, you can click here.

At ploomo, we have developed our very own personality assessment built on a foundation of leading scientific assessment frameworks. Our proprietary assessment combines academic research with practical insights from our team members with decades of real-world business experience to bring valuable insights on personality archetypes and workplace preferences.

The development of the Assessment is based in part on existing psychometric testing approaches, including MBTI and Jung test, Kobus Neethling NBI brain preference test, Big 5 (6) tests and Thomsons High Performing Trait Indicator (HPTI). These extensively researched and respected perspectives within the personality and organisational research provided frameworks from which our team extended on, augmented by their own business experience.

Our research team is built on diversity across skills, industries, interests, and backgrounds and has been developing applicable insights for over ten years. The original research occurred at one of Australia’s largest and most successful systematic macro trading hedge funds. The core team continued on to form ploomo and continues to expand with backgrounds in data modelling, software development, quantitative trading research, mathematics, information engineering, and psychology. The background and approach provide a new perspective to a data-driven approach to talent management, making the insights practical and approachable for professionals.

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On average, customers report that profiling technology reduces the time to hire by improving screening processes throughout the recruitment cycle. The team at ploomo will work with you to seamlessly integrate the test into your recruitment process to ensure strategic deployment has a minimal effect on application rates. Often, this is done at the start of the application process (along with resume, cover letter and other initial screening questions).

• Our technology is simple to use, easily accessible and user-friendly, allowing for a positive candidate experience.

• Candidates are supported throughout the process by our team to ensure guidenace and technical support is available as required.

• Finally, our test is a short 20-minute assessment that provides valuable insights to the candidate themselves, encouraging their commitment in taking the test quickly.

While psychometric testing is a valuable tool for assessing a candidate's strengths and preferences in the workplace, it can pose a barrier for some candidates if not deployed in an optimised way.

The ploomo Role Profile is a 10-minute assessment that builds a representation of a role, team and organisational structure in order to identify key factors required for highest potential success. It is best completed by an individual who understands the requirements of the role (such as a direct manager, incumbent or Human Resources). Our role profiling technology assesses the design of the role across:

• Job characteristics - day-to-day tasks of the role

• Team environment - social orientation, inherent autonomy and management influence

• Organisational culture - overarching atmosphere the role operates within

While every organisation has different needs, the normal process of onboarding goes over 2 weeks and involves two 30-45 minute workshops, and individual online assessments which take around 20 minutes.

ploomo assesses areas that are scientifically proven to affect employee engagement and workplace relationships. These areas include

• Role - how you feel about your role and responsibilities

• Relationships - how you feel about your team and the people you work closest to

• Culture - how you feel about the wider company and culture

Questions are specific to the individual to provide immediate feedback on factors that may be influencing their work experience, productivity and engagement.

No, ploomo believes in taking targeted action to foster a strong workplace relationship between individuals by directly identifying any areas of frustration and encouraging open, honest communication.

We act as an independent party to ensure employees feel comfortable to provide honest responses by implementing a number of safeguards.

The ploomo Talent Portal provides you with a comprehensive overview of your organisation-wide profiles and live alignment. From here, you can deep dive into departments, teams or individuals to understand their particular situation.

Both products are designed to be easy to implement and use. Predictive Placement is an online tool that integrates with existing HR processes and provides insights and recommendations that are easy to understand and act upon. Live Alignment is delivered via an online portal and our Mia chatbot and provides insights to how your people are experiencing their work.

All insights collected are kept internally, solely to deliver the product and for product enhancements.

Our customer support team is based in Australia and is available via email, phone, or chat. We are committed to providing excellent customer service and are available to answer any questions or concerns that HR professionals may have about our products.

Our sister company, LedgeRec, work directly with candidates taking the brain profile assessment to ensure there is no barrier to the application during the recruitment process

While our reports provide an in-depth understanding of any highlighted challenges with context for why they might be occurring and potential actions you can take to rectify them, we are unable to assist to implement actions. You will be assigned a dedicated Account Manager who is available to discuss any content of the report should it require clarification.