§ The result
SHL leads Korn Ferry on all 7 criteria.
SHL scores 51 and Korn Ferry 46 under rubric v1.0 — a 5-point gap inside the Assessment cohort. SHL is ahead of Korn Ferry on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Article 11 Technical Documentation at Korn Ferry 58 to SHL 60. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Korn Ferry 52, SHL 60) and Data Governance Disclosure at 15% (Korn Ferry 52, SHL 58), the second being 20% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
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.
§ The record
Korn Ferry and SHL are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Korn Ferry | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 1969 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 20% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Korn Ferry 52 · SHL 58
0.9 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Korn Ferry 33 · SHL 40
0.8 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 54% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Korn Ferry 25 · SHL 30
0.8 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Korn Ferry 52 · SHL 58
0.7 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Korn Ferry 52 · SHL 60
0.6 weighted points to SHL
20% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Korn Ferry 58 · SHL 60
0.4 weighted points to SHL
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Korn Ferry 48 · SHL 50
0.4 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.6 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 -4.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Korn Ferry minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | Korn Ferry | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 40 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 51 (F) | -5 | -4.6 |
§ 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 | Korn Ferry | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Korn Ferry has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 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 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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