§ The result
2 points separate Employment Hero and Korn Ferry.
Employment Hero holds a 2-point edge over Korn Ferry under rubric v1.0, 48 to 46, across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. Employment Hero leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while Korn Ferry leads 2, including Bias Audit Transparency. The heaviest weighted swing runs the other way — Korn Ferry takes Bias Audit Transparency at 18%, Employment Hero 35 to Korn Ferry 48, 59% of the weighted advantage Korn Ferry holds — while the widest raw gap sits on Post-Market Monitoring, Employment Hero 50 to Korn Ferry 33.
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
Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry provides psychometric talent assessments (Korn Ferry Assess, the KF4D Four Dimensional assessment, KFALP leadership-potential assessment, and the Leadership Architect competency framework) used to evaluate candidates' personality, competencies, drivers, and cognitive ability for selection, promotion, and development decisions.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, Korn Ferry 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 | Korn Ferry |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 1969 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · Korn Ferry 48
2.3 weighted points to Korn Ferry
12% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · Korn Ferry 33
2.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · Korn Ferry 58
1.6 weighted points to Korn Ferry
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · Korn Ferry 52
1.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · Korn Ferry 25
1.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · Korn Ferry 52
0.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · Korn Ferry 52
0.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.6 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 +1.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus Korn Ferry.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | Korn Ferry | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 48 | -13 | -2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 25 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 33 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 46 (F) | +2 | +1.8 |
§ 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 | Korn Ferry | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 2 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 10 | 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; Korn Ferry has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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