§ The result
Employment Hero leads Cegid on 4 of the 7 criteria.
Employment Hero (Screening) edges Cegid (ATS-integrated) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 48 to 45. Employment Hero leads 4 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 3 are level, so Cegid is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 4 Employment Hero leads is Data Governance Disclosure, Cegid 55 to Employment Hero 56. Even Post-Market Monitoring, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cegid 40, Employment Hero 50, 12% weight), is only 39% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero builds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Cegid
Cegid's HR suite offers two recruiting lines: Cegid HR Talent Acquisition (ex-DigitalRecruiters), an ATS/CRM with CV parsing, scorecards, automated scoring and an AI conversational agent that pre-qualifies candidates on career sites and WhatsApp, and Cegid Talentsoft (now sold as Cegid HR Suite) recruiting, whose 'Recruiting Match' matches positions to candidates algorithmically.
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
Cegid is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Employment Hero under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Employment Hero is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cegid | Employment Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | FR | AU |
| Founded | 1983 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cegid 40 · Employment Hero 50
1.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cegid 30 · Employment Hero 35
0.9 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cegid 55 · Employment Hero 62
0.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cegid 55 · Employment Hero 56
0.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to -3.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -3.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cegid minus Employment Hero.
| Category | Weight | Cegid | Employment Hero | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 32 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 48 (F) | -3 | -3.1 |
§ 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 | Cegid | Employment Hero | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 6 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Cegid has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 74 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for Cegid, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cegid last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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