§ The result
Employment Hero leads HireQuotient on all 7 criteria.
Employment Hero, filed under Screening, comes out 14 points above HireQuotient, filed under Sourcing: 48 against 34 under rubric v1.0. Employment Hero leads every one of the 7 criteria, HireQuotient none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Employment Hero 62 to HireQuotient 57. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Post-Market Monitoring (Employment Hero 50, HireQuotient 30) and Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Employment Hero 35, HireQuotient 18), the second being 22% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, HireQuotient under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: ATS-integrated and Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Employment Hero | HireQuotient |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | AU | SG |
| Founded | 2014 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 22% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · HireQuotient 18
3.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
20% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · HireQuotient 35
3.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · HireQuotient 40
2.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · HireQuotient 30
2.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · HireQuotient 22
1.5 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · HireQuotient 50
1.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · HireQuotient 57
0.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus HireQuotient.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | HireQuotient | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 18 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 22 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 40 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 57 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 30 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 34 (F) | +14 | +13.9 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | 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 | 6 | 0 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 5 | 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; HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next