§ The result
HiBob leads eSkill by 5 points.
Under rubric v1.0, HiBob, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 46 and eSkill, filed under Assessment, on 41, 5 points apart. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of HiBob: HiBob is ahead on Data Governance Disclosure and eSkill on Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Post-Market Monitoring (eSkill 36, HiBob 47) and Data Governance Disclosure at 15% (eSkill 47, HiBob 57), the second being 25% of the weighted advantage HiBob holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
eSkill
eSkill is a pre-employment testing platform with auto-scored skills, cognitive and behavioral tests and human-rated one-way video interviews, plus an optional Proctorio-powered AI proctoring add-on that gives each candidate a suspicion score and a Claude-based "Linea" layer that drafts assessments from job descriptions.
Vendor profile
HiBob
HiBob's Bob is an all-in-one HR platform whose Bob Hiring applicant tracking module uses AI to give each application an explainable match score against recruiter-defined criteria (AI CV Matching) and to draft job descriptions, interview scorecards and candidate emails.
§ The record
eSkill is filed under Assessment AI, HiBob under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only eSkill is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | eSkill | HiBob |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2003 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 21% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
eSkill 47 · HiBob 57
1.5 weighted points to HiBob
20% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
eSkill 48 · HiBob 55
1.4 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
eSkill 36 · HiBob 47
1.3 weighted points to HiBob
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
eSkill 25 · HiBob 20
0.9 weighted points to eSkill
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
eSkill 30 · HiBob 35
0.8 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
eSkill 57 · HiBob 63
0.7 weighted points to HiBob
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
eSkill 56 · HiBob 61
0.4 weighted points to HiBob
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.2 — 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 -5 beside that -5.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is eSkill minus HiBob.
| Category | Weight | eSkill | HiBob | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 47 | 57 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 63 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 47 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 61 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 46 (F) | -5 | -5.2 |
§ 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 | eSkill | HiBob | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
eSkill has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; HiBob has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for eSkill sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for eSkill, across 2 distinct source domains, and 36 for HiBob, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- eSkill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiBob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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