Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Employment Hero vs Sova Assessment
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.
Substantial gaps
Screening
Sova Assessment
Sova Assessment is a UK-based enterprise talent assessment platform combining personality questionnaires, cognitive and ability tests, situational judgement, video interviews, virtual assessment centres and AI-led role simulations into a single occupational-psychology-validated candidate scoring workflow.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
Employment Hero and Sova Assessment tie at 48.
Employment Hero (Screening) and Sova Assessment (Assessment) tie at 48 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Employment Hero leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Sova Assessment 3, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. FRIA Support, at 15%, is the heaviest weighted swing and goes to Sova Assessment (Employment Hero 32, Sova Assessment 40), 44% of the weighted advantage it holds, while the widest raw gap is Post-Market Monitoring, Employment Hero 50 to Sova Assessment 40.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Employment Hero3
- Sova Assessment3
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Post-Market Monitoring50 vs 40
- Heaviest weighted swing
- FRIA Support15% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, Sova Assessment under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Employment Hero | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | AU | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | 2015 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
FRIA Support
15% weight22% of the movement so far
Employment Hero32Sova Assessment401.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight45% of the movement so far
Employment Hero50Sova Assessment401.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
- 3
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight63% of the movement so far
Employment Hero50Sova Assessment551.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight79% of the movement so far
Employment Hero62Sova Assessment550.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
- 5
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight90% of the movement so far
Employment Hero56Sova Assessment520.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
- 6
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight100% of the movement so far
Employment Hero35Sova Assessment380.5 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -0.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.1.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus Sova Assessment, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 48F | 48F | - | -0.1 |
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 | Sova Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 domainSources on a separate 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 28 | 8 | 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; Sova Assessment has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sova Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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