§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Employment Hero on 6 of the 7 criteria.
LinkedIn Recruiter scores 57 and Employment Hero 48 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. LinkedIn Recruiter leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Employment Hero is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 LinkedIn Recruiter leads is Human Oversight Design, Employment Hero 62 to LinkedIn Recruiter 66. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Employment Hero 50, LinkedIn Recruiter 67, 20% weight), is only 38% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter builds across the 6 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
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is LinkedIn's enterprise sourcing and candidate-management platform, whose Hiring Assistant add-on and AI-Assisted Search use AI to turn intake notes into qualifications, source and rank candidates, evaluate applicants against recruiter-set qualifications, and draft or send outreach.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, LinkedIn Recruiter under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Employment Hero is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Employment Hero | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
3.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
2.7 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
0.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
0.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
0.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
0.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -8.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -9 beside that -8.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 67 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 38 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 62 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 66 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 68 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 57 (F) | -9 | -8.9 |
§ 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 | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 74 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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