§ The result
SEEK leads Employment Hero on 4 of the 7 criteria.
Inside the Screening cohort, rubric v1.0 puts SEEK on 54 and Employment Hero on 48, 6 points apart. SEEK leads 4 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 3 are level, so Employment Hero is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 4 SEEK leads is Customer Documentation, Employment Hero 62 to SEEK 64. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Employment Hero 50, SEEK 70) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 71% of the weighted advantage SEEK 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
SEEK
SEEK runs employment marketplaces in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia (SEEK, Jobstreet and Jobsdb), and its seekAi employer tools label and rank applicants as 'high-fit' using a model trained on millions of past hirer shortlisting decisions, target job ads at predicted high-fit candidates, and run AI voice or text pre-screens, recommended shortlists and reference checks through a feature called Assist.
§ The record
Employment Hero and SEEK are both filed under Screening 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 | SEEK |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | AU |
| Founded | 2014 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · SEEK 70
4.0 weighted points to SEEK
18% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · SEEK 40
0.9 weighted points to SEEK
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · SEEK 60
0.6 weighted points to SEEK
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · SEEK 64
0.2 weighted points to SEEK
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to -5.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -5.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus SEEK.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | SEEK | 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 | 32 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 64 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 54 (F) | -6 | -5.7 |
§ 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 | SEEK | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 the vendor's own 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 | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 7 | 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; SEEK has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SEEK sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 30 for SEEK, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SEEK last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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