§ The result
1 point separates Jobma and Employment Hero.
Jobma holds a 1-point edge over Employment Hero under rubric v1.0, 49 to 48, across the Video interview and Screening cohorts. Jobma leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Employment Hero leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 2 are level. Jobma takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Employment Hero 50, Jobma 55), which is 43% of the weighted advantage Jobma holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, Employment Hero 50 to Jobma 44.
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
Jobma
AI video interviewing platform offering one-way (pre-recorded), live, and agentic AI interviews with automated transcription and AI scoring of candidate video, audio, and written responses as recruiter decision-support.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, Jobma under Video interview 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 | Jobma |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · Jobma 55
1.0 weighted points to Jobma
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · Jobma 40
0.9 weighted points to Jobma
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · Jobma 44
0.7 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · Jobma 35
0.4 weighted points to Jobma
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · Jobma 60
0.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -1.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.3 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 -1.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus Jobma.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | Jobma | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 56 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 44 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 49 (F) | -1 | -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 | Jobma | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | 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 | 17 | 4 | 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; Jobma has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 21 for Jobma, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Jobma last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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