§ The result
Employment Hero leads Cezanne Recruitment on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Employment Hero, filed under Screening, finishes on 48 and Cezanne Recruitment, filed under ATS-integrated, on 41, 7 points apart. Employment Hero takes all 7 criteria from Cezanne Recruitment without a 20-point raw gap on any of them; the closest is Data Governance Disclosure, Cezanne Recruitment 54 to Employment Hero 56. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (Cezanne Recruitment 24, Employment Hero 35) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Cezanne Recruitment 40, Employment Hero 50), the second being 31% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Cezanne Recruitment
Cezanne Recruitment (formerly Occupop) is an applicant tracking system for SMEs that handles job posting, candidate management and interview scheduling. In its Recruitment PLUS+ tier it uses AI to score each CV from 0 to 100 against the job description, alongside weighted screening-question scores, knockout filters and optional AI anonymisation of CVs for hiring-manager review.
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
Cezanne Recruitment is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Employment Hero under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | Cezanne Recruitment | Employment Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | AU |
| Founded | 2012 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · Employment Hero 50
2.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · Employment Hero 35
2.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · Employment Hero 50
0.7 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cezanne Recruitment 28 · Employment Hero 32
0.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cezanne Recruitment 58 · Employment Hero 62
0.5 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · Employment Hero 62
0.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · Employment Hero 56
0.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -6.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -6.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus Employment Hero.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | Employment Hero | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 35 | -11 | -2.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 32 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 56 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 50 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 62 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 48 (F) | -7 | -6.5 |
§ 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 | Cezanne Recruitment | Employment Hero | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 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 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% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Cezanne Recruitment has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 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 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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