12.04.2024

A BULGARIAN PLATFORM ASSESSES HR SOFT SKILLS THROUGH GAMES

A Bulgarian platform offers assessment of the skills of job seekers through games.

The idea for Pleggi was born from the desire to find something that shows our qualities and strengths, said Tsvetelin Nikolov, co-founder of Pleggi. The idea was born in the student years of its creators, who had difficulty finding a job because they had no experience. Thus, they develop a platform that evaluates candidates based on their skills, helping to understand whether they are suitable for the position, for the culture of a given company and the team.

We realized already in our student years that taking tests is not the most pleasant, so we decided to bet on experience, on games, said Nikolov.

Pleggi shows candidates' strengths through short scientific games, evaluating a player's behavior in a given situation, Nikolov explained. The platform creates an upgraded CV that gathers all the information such as experience, education, languages, etc., but augments it with assessed behavioral and personality characteristics known as soft skills. The key is that it pulls out information about the candidate's top five values, he added.

Currently, Pleggi meets almost entirely the competencies of all office activities. The soft skills that the platform evaluates correspond to many positions, adds Nikolov.

Pleggi is available to both companies and job seekers. Candidates have the opportunity, through a button open for work, to fall into the lists of vacant positions of companies only for which they are suitable.

Test results can change over time, but mainly more stable characteristics were selected to give certainty over time to these data, Nikolov explained. The reliability of the results is 9 months, after which a slight deviation is possible.

Although the Pleggi platform is available in both Bulgarian and English, for the company it is a priority to evaluate the skills of people in Bulgaria and showcase the talents, its co-founder also said.

At the moment, the countries of the Balkans are interested in entering the foreign market, and the company's intentions are to start with them.