§ The result
Employment Hero leads Alooba on all 7 criteria.
Employment Hero sits 10 points above Alooba under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 38 — with Employment Hero filed under Screening and Alooba under Assessment. Employment Hero is ahead of Alooba on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being FRIA Support at Alooba 28 to Employment Hero 32. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap (Alooba 36, Employment Hero 50) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Alooba 22, Employment Hero 35), 25% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Alooba
Alooba sells online skills assessments (auto-graded SQL, Python/R, multiple-choice and data-analysis tests, plus manually graded free-response and one-way video questions) that employers use to screen, benchmark and optionally auto-reject job candidates.
Vendor profile
Employment Hero
SmartMatch is Employment Hero's AI candidate-matching engine. Since March 2026 it has been surfaced through Find Talent and ATS applicant scoring, where it ranks job seekers and applicants against employer criteria and feeds a Recruitment Agent that auto-shortlists candidates and runs AI video and phone screening interviews.
§ The record
Alooba is filed under Assessment AI, Employment Hero under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alooba | Employment Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | AU |
| Founded | 2019 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alooba 22 · Employment Hero 35
2.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alooba 40 · Employment Hero 50
2.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alooba 36 · Employment Hero 50
1.7 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alooba 45 · Employment Hero 56
1.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alooba 55 · Employment Hero 62
0.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alooba 28 · Employment Hero 32
0.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alooba 58 · Employment Hero 62
0.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -9.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alooba minus Employment Hero.
| Category | Weight | Alooba | Employment Hero | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 35 | -13 | -2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 32 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 56 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 50 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 48 (F) | -10 | -9.4 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Alooba | Employment Hero | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Alooba has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alooba sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Alooba, across 3 distinct source domains, and 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alooba last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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