§ The result
Versant by Pearson takes the total, Employment Hero takes more of the criteria.
Versant by Pearson (Assessment) edges Employment Hero (Screening) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 49 to 48. Employment Hero leads more of the criteria than Versant by Pearson — 5 to 2 — but Article 11 Technical Documentation, which Versant by Pearson leads, carries 20% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Versant by Pearson. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Employment Hero 50, Versant by Pearson 63) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 67% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds across the 2 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
Versant by Pearson
Versant by Pearson is a suite of AI-scored English proficiency tests (plus spoken Spanish, French, Arabic and Dutch) that automatically score candidates' spoken and written responses on Pearson's Global Scale of English within minutes, used by employers such as contact centres and BPOs to screen applicants and benchmark staff through the ScoreKeeper dashboard.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, Versant by Pearson 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 | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · Versant by Pearson 63
2.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · Versant by Pearson 42
1.3 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.7 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · Versant by Pearson 53
0.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · Versant by Pearson 30
0.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 63 | -13 | -2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 42 | -7 | -1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 53 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 43 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 61 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 49 (F) | -1 | -1.5 |
§ 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 | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 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; Versant by Pearson has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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