§ The result
Employment Hero takes the total, HiBob takes more of the criteria.
Employment Hero (Screening) edges HiBob (ATS-integrated) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 48 to 46. HiBob leads more of the criteria than Employment Hero — 4 to 3 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Employment Hero leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Employment Hero. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Employment Hero 35, HiBob 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 86% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
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.
Vendor profile
HiBob
HiBob's Bob is an all-in-one HR platform whose Bob Hiring applicant tracking module uses AI to give each application an explainable match score against recruiter-defined criteria (AI CV Matching) and to draft job descriptions, interview scorecards and candidate emails.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, HiBob under ATS-integrated 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 | Employment Hero | HiBob |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · HiBob 20
2.7 weighted points to Employment Hero
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · HiBob 55
1.0 weighted points to HiBob
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · HiBob 35
0.4 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · HiBob 47
0.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · HiBob 57
0.1 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · HiBob 63
0.1 weighted points to HiBob
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · HiBob 61
0.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +1.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus HiBob.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | HiBob | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 20 | +15 | +2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 57 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 63 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 47 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 61 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 46 (F) | +2 | +1.4 |
§ 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 | Employment Hero | HiBob | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; HiBob has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 71 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 36 for HiBob, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiBob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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