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Caitlin MacGregor

CEO & Co-FounderPlum

Kitchener, ON, Canada

Member Since February 2024

Skills

Start-ups
Customer Service
Employee Hiring

About

Caitlin MacGregor is CEO & Co-founder of Plum. With vision, tenacity, and incomparable resilience, she has led Plum’s evolution and growth from a pre-employment assessment solution to a robust talent management platform that is revolutionizing how enterprise organizations manage their talent across the employee lifecycle. Before founding Plum, Caitlin was the first employee at a social enterprise called Me to We Style, where she built the company from scratch as Director of Operations. She then joined goQ Software, an educational technology company, as President, where she opened and ran the new U.S. Head Office. Caitlin is passionate about equipping business leaders with the talent data they need to match their talent to the right roles, as companies adapt in the age of automation. Caitlin is a regular speaker at women entrepreneur events, and she was selected by Springboard enterprises NYC as one of the top 10 businesses led by women.

Published content

19 strategies to make your company culture stand out to attract top talent

expert panel

It can be difficult to stand out from your competition when trying to hire top talent; with a strong company culture, it's easier. When it comes to standing out in a competitive job market, your company's culture can be a crucial influence in attracting and retaining top talent. A workplace that is vibrant, inclusive, and supportive not only sets an organization apart from its competitors but lends itself to employee satisfaction and productivity. Here, Fast Company Executive Board members discuss how companies can use their culture as a key differentiator from their competition. With these strategies in mind, you can cultivate a work environment that attracts the top candidates in your industry.

Career transitioners: 12 methods to make hiring managers take notice 

expert panel

Consider these next steps to achieve a smooth job transformation in a new industry of choice. When it comes to making a drastic career transition in life, it's something that can be obtained in time, no matter how difficult it may seem at first. Learning to communicate your professional goals clearly and authentically is one of the first steps to gaining the trust and credibility that will turn your career aspirations into reality. To help steer business professionals in the right direction and contemplate their next moves, below, 12 Fast Company Executive Board members each discuss their strategy for translating existing job skills to new industry standards and leverage digital platforms for job hunting, ensuring that candidates stand out in a competitive employment landscape.

Mind the gap closers: Spotting and supporting the new wave of leaders

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Gap closers are overlooked as potential leaders—seen for being too in the weeds rather than thinking about the big picture. But that's also where breakthroughs happen.

Company details

Plum

Company bio

Revolutionary talent assessment provider Plum knows when people flourish, business thrives. With a universal design, Plum uses objective data to measure and match human potential to job needs, enhancing talent decisions across the employee lifecycle. Featuring unmatched scalability, Plum empowers organizations to quantify job fit, improve quality of hire, identify potential, provide personalized career insights and create high-performing teams from one platform. Plum has been named a Top HR Product of the Year by Human Resource Executive, won an HR Tech Award from Lighthouse Research & Advisory and secured High Performer status with G2.

Industry

Technology

Area of focus

Recruiting
Human Resources
Hiring

Company size

11 - 50