Product updates

We’ve updated the PI platform to focus on product modularity. Each product has its own dedicated home, with new information architecture designed to help you perform your workflow quicker and smarter.

Let’s walk through the biggest changes to the overall platform in PI2.

Biggest changes in PI2

New dashboard and navigation experience

The first thing you will notice is your new dashboard. Use this dashboard to view recent activity (e.g., new assessment results, new jobs), send out Behavioral Assessment (“BA”) invites to employees, and quickly hop to various PI features.

We’ve also simplified the top menu bar to reduce clutter and help you access different PI products faster. To return to the dashboard, click the PI button in the top-left corner.

Updated assessment sending

The Assessment Center in the legacy experience has been integrated with your Employee Directory. Admins can now can invite employees to the software and/or send them BAs with a single organization file upload. (You can also send assessments individually if you prefer.)

We’ve also embedded assessment sending into each of the PI products:

• Hire: Send Behavioral and Cognitive Assessments to candidates right from an open job.
• Inspire: Send assessments to employees and view their behavioral data all in one place.
• Design: Add a team member and they’ll automatically be asked to take the BA.

Please note: The ability to send assessments via invitation links is currently available only in Hire. However, we will be adding support for employee assessment links later this year.

Folders have been streamlined

In the legacy experience, folders allowed you to organize jobs, candidates, and employees. They also functioned as a way to control who could see what within the PI platform. While companies with impeccable organization skills were able to take full advantage of folders, many other clients felt the old system was cumbersome and confusing. 

In PI2, we have streamlined the way folders work. Unlike legacy, where you added both people and jobs to folders, in PI2 we are de-emphasizing the focus on people and focusing solely on job access. As with legacy, you can extend folder access permissions to users, allowing you to fine-tune job access to your liking. Learn more about folders in PI2.

Note: Some clients used folders to control access to employee BA data. In PI2, we are adding a new setting, “Behavioral Data Permissions,” which will allow you to control BA access without the need to organize people into folders. This new setting is scheduled to release in April. Learn how you can prepare.

Group Analytics has a new home

Group Analytics (previously, just “Analytics”) lets you overlay two or more people’s behavioral data, so you can visualize trends. Use the results to analyze a group of top performers to find shared strengths or compare employees to their current job to identify development opportunities.

We’ve moved Group Analytics from its old dropdown menu in the legacy experience. Access it by clicking the graph icon () in the right-hand corner of your top navigation bar.

All the features you’ve come to expect are here—just with a new look and feel. Learn how Group Analytics works in PI2.

Factor E has been refined and expanded

If you’ve read our Behavioral Reports in the legacy experience, you’re likely familiar with the concept of the Self, Self-Concept, and Synthesis. You’re probably also familiar with Factor E, which previously showed up solely on the Synthesis.

In PI2, we’ve sunsetted the Synthesis. Why? For many clients, it was confusing. For us, it was also holding our science for Factor E back.

“In the legacy experience, Factor E reflects an average Self and Self-Concept score, which wasn’t particularly informative,” said Dana Pollet, PhD, Manager of Product Science at PI.

“In PI2, you can now interpret your E Factor for both the Self and Self-Concept, the same way you would with any other factor. This means a lot of people will be seeing a difference in their E scores, but we very much view this as a positive! The new E is the proper and accurate measure of one’s actual drive for objectivity in decision making.”

Learn more about changes to Factor E.

Coming soon to PI2

Retake the Behavioral Assessment

At PI, we believe strongly that your initial BA self-results are the most accurate. Studies show that behavior doesn’t tend to change dramatically over time, except following major life events. 

In the legacy experience, it was possible to flip between multiple Behavioral Assessment results per user.

Currently, PI2 only allows users to have one set of BA results. That said, we recognize that clients do enjoy the opportunity to retake the BA, and are pleased to confirm that support for multiple BAs is on the way.

In the future, you’ll be able to retake both the Self and the Self-Concept—an addition we hope will facilitate healthy professional development conversations. Expect more details later this year.

Need to retake the BA in the meantime? Reach out to our support team, and we’ll be happy to help.

Localization support (PI software)

Currently in PI2, English is the only language supported within the software. However, we plan to localize the PI2 platform to support the following 12 languages:

• Chinese (simplified), Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Spain), and Swedish

We’ll have more to share about our localization plans in the coming months.

Please note: Although the PI software currently only supports English, the PI Behavioral Assessment can still be taken in 68 languages. Users can also download Behavioral Reports for candidates (requires PI Hire) or employees (requires PI Inspire) in any of the 13 languages listed above.

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