§ The result
Oracle Recruiting and Versant by Pearson tie at 49.
Oracle Recruiting (ATS-integrated) and Versant by Pearson (Assessment) tie at 49 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Oracle Recruiting leads 4 of the 7 criteria and Versant by Pearson 3, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Oracle Recruiting 30, Versant by Pearson 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 69% of the weighted advantage Versant by Pearson holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
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
Versant by Pearson
Versant by Pearson is a suite of AI-scored English proficiency tests (plus spoken Spanish, French, Arabic and Dutch) that automatically score candidates' spoken and written responses on Pearson's Global Scale of English within minutes, used by employers such as contact centres and BPOs to screen applicants and benchmark staff through the ScoreKeeper dashboard.
§ The record
Oracle Recruiting is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Versant by Pearson under Assessment 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 Versant by Pearson is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Oracle Recruiting | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 1977 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Oracle Recruiting 30 · Versant by Pearson 42
2.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
15% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Oracle Recruiting 60 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.1 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Oracle Recruiting 35 · Versant by Pearson 30
0.8 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
20% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Oracle Recruiting 60 · Versant by Pearson 63
0.6 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Oracle Recruiting 60 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.5 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Oracle Recruiting 40 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.4 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Oracle Recruiting 62 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.1 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Oracle Recruiting minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Oracle Recruiting | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 63 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 42 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 53 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 43 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 61 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 49 (F) | - | -0.8 |
§ 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 | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 2 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 6 | Sources 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; Versant by Pearson has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Oracle Recruiting, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Oracle Recruiting last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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