§ The result
4 points separate Spark Hire and Oracle Recruiting.
Spark Hire (Video interview) edges Oracle Recruiting (ATS-integrated) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 53 to 49. Oracle Recruiting and Spark Hire each lead 3 of the 7 criteria, with 1 level, though the side of the split Spark Hire holds (headed by Bias Audit Transparency) adds up to more weighted points. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Oracle Recruiting 30, Spark Hire 62 — and at an 18% weight it carries 94% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Oracle Recruiting
Oracle Recruiting (part of Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, formerly Oracle Recruiting Cloud) is an enterprise applicant tracking system whose embedded AI suggests and ranks candidates, finds similar candidates, and generates 0-5 generative-AI match ratings against job requisitions to assist recruiters.
Vendor profile
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
Oracle Recruiting is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Spark Hire under Video interview 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 Spark Hire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Oracle Recruiting | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1977 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Oracle Recruiting 30 · Spark Hire 62
5.8 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Oracle Recruiting 35 · Spark Hire 30
0.8 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
20% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Oracle Recruiting 60 · Spark Hire 58
0.4 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Oracle Recruiting 60 · Spark Hire 62
0.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Oracle Recruiting 40 · Spark Hire 38
0.2 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Oracle Recruiting 62 · Spark Hire 64
0.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -4.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.6 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 -4.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Oracle Recruiting minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | Oracle Recruiting | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 62 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 64 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 53 (F) | -4 | -4.8 |
§ 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 | Oracle Recruiting | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 2 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Oracle Recruiting has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Oracle Recruiting, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Oracle Recruiting last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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