§ The result
2 points separate Test Partnership and Employment Hero.
Test Partnership holds a 2-point edge over Employment Hero under rubric v1.0, 50 to 48, across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Test Partnership, with 1 level: Test Partnership is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Employment Hero on Post-Market Monitoring. Test Partnership takes the heaviest weighted swing, Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Employment Hero 35, Test Partnership 48), which is 52% of the weighted advantage Test Partnership holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, Employment Hero 50 to Test Partnership 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
Test Partnership
Test Partnership publishes computer-adaptive aptitude tests, the TPAQ personality questionnaire and MindmetriQ game-based cognitive assessments. Employers review, rank and export the resulting norm-referenced percentile and sten scores in its dashboard, through its API or in integrated ATSs.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, Test Partnership 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 | Test Partnership |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · Test Partnership 48
2.3 weighted points to Test Partnership
12% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · Test Partnership 33
2.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · Test Partnership 57
1.4 weighted points to Test Partnership
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · Test Partnership 36
0.6 weighted points to Test Partnership
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · Test Partnership 58
0.5 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · Test Partnership 57
0.1 weighted points to Test Partnership
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -2.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.0 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 -2.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus Test Partnership.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | Test Partnership | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 57 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 48 | -13 | -2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 36 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 57 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 33 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 50 (F) | -2 | -2.0 |
§ 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 | Test Partnership | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 6 | Sources 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; Test Partnership has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Test Partnership sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Test Partnership, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Test Partnership last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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