§ The result
1 point separates Employment Hero and Hogan Assessments.
Employment Hero holds a 1-point edge over Hogan Assessments under rubric v1.0, 48 to 47, across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. Employment Hero leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Human Oversight Design, while Hogan Assessments leads 2, including Bias Audit Transparency, and 2 are level. The heaviest weighted swing runs the other way — Hogan Assessments takes Bias Audit Transparency at 18%, Employment Hero 35 to Hogan Assessments 44, 73% of the weighted advantage Hogan Assessments holds — while the widest raw gap sits on Human Oversight Design, Employment Hero 62 to Hogan Assessments 52.
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
Hogan Assessments
Hogan Assessments provides science-based personality assessments - chiefly the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI), Hogan Development Survey (HDS), and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI) - used to predict workplace performance for employee selection and development.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, Hogan Assessments under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Employment Hero | Hogan Assessments |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 1987 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · Hogan Assessments 44
1.6 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
12% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · Hogan Assessments 52
1.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · Hogan Assessments 40
1.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · Hogan Assessments 36
0.6 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · Hogan Assessments 52
0.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +0.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +0.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus Hogan Assessments.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | Hogan Assessments | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 44 | -9 | -1.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 36 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 47 (F) | +1 | +0.8 |
§ 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 | Hogan Assessments | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 20 | 6 | 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; Hogan Assessments has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 26 for Hogan Assessments, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Hogan Assessments last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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