§ The result
SEEK leads Mercer | Mettl by 12 points.
SEEK sits 12 points above Mercer | Mettl under rubric v1.0 — 54 against 42 — with SEEK filed under Screening and Mercer | Mettl under Assessment. Mercer | Mettl takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for SEEK, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Mercer | Mettl 38, SEEK 70) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 53% of the weighted advantage SEEK holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Mercer | Mettl
Mercer | Mettl is an online talent assessment and remote-proctoring platform offering psychometric, aptitude, coding, and skills tests plus AI-assisted exam proctoring and scoring for hiring, certification, and L&D.
Vendor profile
SEEK
SEEK runs employment marketplaces in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia (SEEK, Jobstreet and Jobsdb), and its seekAi employer tools label and rank applicants as 'high-fit' using a model trained on millions of past hirer shortlisting decisions, target job ads at predicted high-fit candidates, and run AI voice or text pre-screens, recommended shortlists and reference checks through a feature called Assist.
§ The record
Mercer | Mettl is filed under Assessment AI, SEEK under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Mercer | Mettl is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercer | Mettl | SEEK |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | AU |
| Founded | 2010 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 38 · SEEK 70
6.4 weighted points to SEEK
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercer | Mettl 45 · SEEK 62
2.0 weighted points to SEEK
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercer | Mettl 38 · SEEK 50
1.4 weighted points to SEEK
8% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 52 · SEEK 64
1.0 weighted points to SEEK
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercer | Mettl 55 · SEEK 60
0.8 weighted points to SEEK
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercer | Mettl 28 · SEEK 32
0.6 weighted points to SEEK
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercer | Mettl 42 · SEEK 40
0.4 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -11.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercer | Mettl minus SEEK.
| Category | Weight | Mercer | Mettl | SEEK | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 70 | -32 | -6.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 32 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 62 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 50 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 64 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 54 (F) | -12 | -11.8 |
§ 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 | Mercer | Mettl | SEEK | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Mercer | Mettl has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; SEEK has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SEEK sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains, and 30 for SEEK, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SEEK last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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