§ The result
Korn Ferry takes the total, Zoho Recruit takes more of the criteria.
Korn Ferry (Assessment) edges Zoho Recruit (ATS-integrated) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 46 to 42. Zoho Recruit leads more of the criteria than Korn Ferry — 4 to 3 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Korn Ferry leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Korn Ferry. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Korn Ferry 48, Zoho Recruit 24 — and at an 18% weight it carries 60% of the weighted advantage Korn Ferry holds across the 3 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
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
§ The record
Korn Ferry is filed under Assessment AI, Zoho Recruit 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, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Korn Ferry | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 1969 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Korn Ferry 48 · Zoho Recruit 24
4.3 weighted points to Korn Ferry
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Korn Ferry 58 · Zoho Recruit 45
2.6 weighted points to Korn Ferry
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Korn Ferry 33 · Zoho Recruit 40
0.8 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Korn Ferry 25 · Zoho Recruit 30
0.8 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Korn Ferry 52 · Zoho Recruit 60
0.6 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Korn Ferry 52 · Zoho Recruit 55
0.4 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Korn Ferry 52 · Zoho Recruit 50
0.2 weighted points to Korn Ferry
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Korn Ferry minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Korn Ferry | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 24 | +24 | +4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 40 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 42 (F) | +4 | +4.5 |
§ 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 | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources 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; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 34 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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