§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Korn Ferry on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 16 points clear of Korn Ferry under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 46 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria, Korn Ferry none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Korn Ferry 52 to SmartRecruiters 62. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Korn Ferry 48, SmartRecruiters 78, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 33% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters 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
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
Korn Ferry is filed under Assessment AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Korn Ferry is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Korn Ferry | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1969 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Korn Ferry 48 · SmartRecruiters 78
5.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 52% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Korn Ferry 25 · SmartRecruiters 45
3.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Korn Ferry 58 · SmartRecruiters 70
2.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Korn Ferry 33 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Korn Ferry 52 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Korn Ferry 52 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Korn Ferry 52 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.9 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -16.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Korn Ferry minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Korn Ferry | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 70 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 78 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 45 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 48 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 63 | -11 | -0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 62 (D) | -16 | -16.2 |
§ 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 | Korn Ferry | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Korn Ferry has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 30 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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