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Employment Hero vs SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
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SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting leads Employment Hero by 5 points.
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting scores 53 and Employment Hero 48 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 1 in favour of SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, with 2 level: SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Employment Hero on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Employment Hero 50, SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 67% of the weighted advantage SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting holds across the 4 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
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting is the recruiting module of SAP's cloud HCM suite, using AI (career-site skills matching, job-description generation, resume skills extraction and stack-ranking of applicants) delivered under SAP Business AI and the Joule assistant.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
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 | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | DE |
| Founded | 2014 | 1972 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70
4.0 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40
1.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40
0.9 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 60
0.6 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 35
0.4 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -4.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -4.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 70 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 53 (F) | -5 | -4.8 |
§ 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 | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate 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 | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 17 | 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; SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 22 for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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