§ The result
iCIMS leads Korn Ferry on 6 of the 7 criteria.
iCIMS scores 55 and Korn Ferry 46 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. iCIMS leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Korn Ferry is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 iCIMS leads is Data Governance Disclosure, iCIMS 56 to Korn Ferry 52. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — iCIMS 68, Korn Ferry 48 — and at an 18% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage iCIMS holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
iCIMS
Enterprise talent-acquisition / applicant tracking platform (the iCIMS Talent Cloud) that adds optional AI features - Candidate Ranking, Talent Match, and a GPT-powered Copilot - to source, rank, and engage candidates.
Vendor profile
Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry provides psychometric talent assessments (Korn Ferry Assess, the KF4D Four Dimensional assessment, KFALP leadership-potential assessment, and the Leadership Architect competency framework) used to evaluate candidates' personality, competencies, drivers, and cognitive ability for selection, promotion, and development decisions.
§ The record
iCIMS is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Korn Ferry under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Korn Ferry is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | iCIMS | Korn Ferry |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2000 | 1969 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
iCIMS 68 · Korn Ferry 48
3.6 weighted points to iCIMS
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
iCIMS 38 · Korn Ferry 25
1.9 weighted points to iCIMS
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
iCIMS 42 · Korn Ferry 33
1.1 weighted points to iCIMS
8% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
iCIMS 62 · Korn Ferry 52
0.8 weighted points to iCIMS
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
iCIMS 58 · Korn Ferry 52
0.7 weighted points to iCIMS
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
iCIMS 56 · Korn Ferry 52
0.6 weighted points to iCIMS
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +8.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +8.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is iCIMS minus Korn Ferry.
| Category | Weight | iCIMS | Korn Ferry | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 68 | 48 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 33 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 55 (F) | 46 (F) | +9 | +8.8 |
§ 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 | iCIMS | Korn Ferry | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
iCIMS has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; Korn Ferry has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for iCIMS, across 2 distinct source domains, and 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- iCIMS last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next