Collaboration: chat, meetings, channels, file sharing, integrations.
Before starting, we run a 1-minute tech check — microphone, ambient noise, connection. If your setup isn't good enough, the test is fully refunded.
Show recruiters you actually know Microsoft Teams — channels, meetings, governance, integrations — not just that you've opened the app.
The Plume Microsoft Teams badge puts your collaboration skills to the test in a focused 15-minute AI oral exam. The examiner probes your ability to design team and channel structures, run meetings the right way (lobby settings, breakout rooms, live transcription), co-edit files through the SharePoint backbone behind every channel, wire up tabs and apps like Planner, Forms, and Power Automate, and navigate the governance settings that keep an organisation's Teams environment from turning into chaos.
Self-declared skills on a resume are easy to list and impossible to verify. Plume's oral format is different: an AI examiner asks follow-up questions, pushes on the details, and spots the difference between someone who has actually configured a private channel policy and someone who has only ever clicked 'Join Meeting'. A second AI then reads the full transcript and produces a 0-100 score with a certified level. The result is a shareable, time-stamped badge that stands behind your claim.
This badge is built for anyone whose day-to-day runs through Teams: project managers coordinating hybrid sprints, IT admins managing tenant-level policies, executive assistants running leadership meetings, digital trainers onboarding colleagues, and candidates who want to walk into any Microsoft 365 shop and hit the ground running on day one.
Here are the concrete dimensions the AI examines during the 15-minute oral.
Creating and structuring teams, configuring standard, private, and shared channels, managing membership and permissions, and cleanly archiving or deleting teams when a project wraps up.
Threading conversations, using @mentions and team tags, sending urgent messages, working with Loop components, and keeping communication readable across large channels without losing context.
Scheduling channel and private meetings, configuring lobby and bypass policies, enabling live captions and transcription, managing breakout rooms, and retrieving recordings from OneDrive or SharePoint.
Understanding the link between a channel's Files tab and its underlying SharePoint document library, co-editing Word and Excel files in real time, managing version history, and setting file permissions correctly.
Pinning and configuring tabs (Planner, Forms, OneNote, external websites), adding incoming and outgoing connectors, and deploying apps from the organisational catalogue to streamline workflows inside a channel.
Knowing your way around the Teams Admin Center: messaging policies, meeting policies, team templates, Microsoft 365 Groups governance, guest access controls, and naming conventions that scale.
Connecting Teams to Outlook (meeting invites, channel email), Planner, To Do, Power Automate flows, and Viva Engage to build end-to-end workflows without bouncing between a dozen separate tools.
Identifying meeting privacy options, end-to-end encryption for calls, message retention policies, and the risks and controls around external guest users joining a team or a shared channel.
Final scoring is performed by Claude (Anthropic), which reads back the full transcript and applies this weighted criteria grid.
The candidate can describe exactly how Teams features work — channels, meetings, files, apps — and picks the right tool for the right scenario without hesitation or hand-waving.
The candidate explains how Teams interacts with SharePoint, Exchange, Planner, and Power Automate, and understands where data is actually stored and why that matters for governance.
The candidate knows the policies, templates, and guardrails that prevent Teams sprawl and keep an organisation's environment secure, compliant, and easy to manage at scale.
Answers are well-structured and use precise terminology (channel vs. team, lobby vs. bypass, private channel vs. shared channel) without slipping into vague or circular explanations.
The candidate tailors their approach to the scenario described — SMB vs. enterprise, fully remote vs. hybrid, internal project vs. cross-tenant collaboration — rather than giving one-size-fits-all answers.
A Plume session takes about 20 minutes, from tech check to badge delivery.
Plume runs a quick mic and connection test before the exam starts. All you need is a modern browser and a quiet spot. No irony lost: you don't need Teams installed to earn your Teams badge.
The AI examiner asks you to briefly describe your Teams background: how long you've been using it, what kind of organisation, and whether you've ever held an admin or Teams champion role.
The core of the exam. The AI walks you through realistic scenarios: setting up a private channel for a confidential project, managing a 200-person all-hands meeting, hooking a Power Automate flow into a channel, or troubleshooting a file permission problem. It follows up on your answers to test how deep your knowledge really goes.
The AI asks you to step back: what limits have you hit with Teams, how do you compare it to Slack or Google Meet, and which features you rarely use and why. This reveals how thoughtfully you've engaged with the tool.
Within minutes of finishing, Claude Opus analyses the transcript and generates your 0-100 score, your certified level (Novice to Expert), and a detailed competency report. Your badge is ready to share — or keep private — right away.
Your score out of 100 translates into a level a recruiter can grasp at a glance.
You use Teams to chat and join meetings others have set up, but you've never created a team, configured a channel, or added an app. You know the surface-level features but haven't touched the settings pane.
You create and manage teams and channels, schedule meetings with the right options (lobby, recording, breakout rooms), share files through the Files tab, and use a handful of apps like Planner or Forms to keep projects organised.
You handle Teams governance (messaging policies, private and shared channels, team templates), connect Teams to Power Automate and SharePoint confidently, and regularly train or support other users in your organisation.
You administer Teams at tenant level (Teams Admin Center, compliance policies, end-to-end encryption, large-scale guest access), design an organisation's Teams architecture from scratch, and lead migrations or enterprise-wide deployments.
No degree or years of experience required to take the badge. Here are the profiles it makes the most sense for.
You run sprints, status calls, and document reviews entirely in Teams and want a verifiable credential to back that up when applying for remote or hybrid roles.
You onboard colleagues onto Teams every week and need a recognised proof of expertise to establish credibility with the teams you support, beyond just having the job title.
You manage Teams policies at the tenant level and want a formal validation of expertise that's usually self-taught, without committing to an expensive official Microsoft certification track.
Teams is your coordination hub for leadership meetings, company-wide channels, and cross-department projects. The badge proves you go well beyond joining calls and sending messages.
You've built solid Teams skills through real use but have no official credential to show for it. The Plume badge gives you a concrete, dated proof point to lead with in interviews.
Where and how your Microsoft Teams badge will help you day to day.
A recruiter asks if you're comfortable with Microsoft's collaboration stack. You share your Teams badge URL showing a score of 78/100 at Advanced level, listing exactly what you can and can't do.
You join an SMB that just migrated to Microsoft 365. Your badge signals to IT and your manager that you can configure channels, onboard teammates, and link Teams to SharePoint without hand-holding.
A client hires you to roll out Teams across a 50-person team. You send your badge upfront to demonstrate you can handle governance, team templates, and messaging policies before the kickoff call.
You're going for a digital champion or IT coordinator role inside your company. The badge gives objective evidence of your Teams depth where a generic training certificate only proves attendance.
You're studying for the Teams Administrator Associate exam. The Plume oral helps you spot gaps in your governance and admin knowledge before you sit the official Pearson VUE test.
You add the Plume badge to the Licenses and Certifications section of your LinkedIn profile. Recruiters can click the link and verify your score in seconds, no PDF or screenshot needed.
A few minutes to check you have everything you need.
At the end of your session you don't just get a score — here's everything that awaits you.
You get a precise score and an official level (Novice to Expert) that reflects your real Teams proficiency, validated by an AI analysis of your full 15-minute transcript.
The report pinpoints your strengths (e.g. meeting management, M365 integrations) and the areas to work on (e.g. governance, admin policies) with comments tied to your actual answers.
Your 15-minute session is securely stored and only accessible to you. Re-listen before a job interview, a salary negotiation, or your next attempt at the badge.
Your Microsoft Teams badge lives at a public URL you can drop into your CV, LinkedIn profile, or application email. Anyone who clicks it sees your score and level instantly.
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