§ The result
HiredScore takes the total, Employment Hero takes more of the criteria.
HiredScore (Sourcing) edges Employment Hero (Screening) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 52 to 48. Employment Hero leads more of the criteria than HiredScore — 5 to 2 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which HiredScore leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to HiredScore. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Employment Hero 35, HiredScore 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 55% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds across the 2 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
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, HiredScore under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Employment Hero is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Employment Hero | HiredScore |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · HiredScore 55
3.6 weighted points to HiredScore
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · HiredScore 65
3.0 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · HiredScore 35
1.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · HiredScore 30
0.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · HiredScore 60
0.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · HiredScore 60
0.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · HiredScore 55
0.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -3.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -3.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus HiredScore.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | HiredScore | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 65 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 55 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 52 (F) | -4 | -3.9 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiredScore sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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