Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
hackajob vs SHL
hackajob
Archer, hackajob's AI sourcing agent, is calibrated by a recruiter on a hiring brief, then finds, engages and qualifies passive candidates from a 1.5m-member pool and 800m+ indexed profiles and invites those who meet the bar to apply through the employer's existing ATS.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
SHL
SHL is a global talent-assessment provider offering AI-scored cognitive ability, personality, behavioral, situational-judgement, coding, and video-interview assessments that score, rank, and recommend candidates for hiring and development decisions.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
SHL leads hackajob by 6 points.
Under rubric v1.0, SHL, filed under Assessment, finishes on 51 and hackajob, filed under Sourcing, on 45, 6 points apart. The 7 criteria split 3 to 1 in favour of SHL, with 3 level: SHL is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and hackajob on FRIA Support. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — hackajob 20, SHL 50 — and at an 18% weight it carries 90% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- hackajob1
- SHL3
- Level3
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency20 vs 50
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
hackajob is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, SHL under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
Only SHL is in scope of
| Record | hackajob | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | 1977 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight86% of the movement so far
hackajob20SHL505.4 weighted points to SHL
- 2
Human Oversight Design
12% weight91% of the movement so far
hackajob55SHL580.4 weighted points to SHL
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight96% of the movement so far
hackajob32SHL300.3 weighted points to hackajob
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight100% of the movement so far
hackajob38SHL400.2 weighted points to SHL
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 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 -6 beside that -5.7.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hackajob minus SHL, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | hackajob | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 50 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 45F | 51F | -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 | hackajob | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 38 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
hackajob has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; SHL has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for hackajob, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hackajob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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