§ The result
2 points separate SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting and SHL.
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting (ATS-integrated) edges SHL (Assessment) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 53 to 51. SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while SHL leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70, SHL 60 — and at a 20% weight it carries 54% of the weighted advantage SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting is the recruiting module of SAP's cloud HCM suite, using AI (career-site skills matching, job-description generation, resume skills extraction and stack-ranking of applicants) delivered under SAP Business AI and the Joule assistant.
Vendor profile
SHL
SHL is a global talent-assessment provider offering AI-scored cognitive ability, personality, behavioral, situational-judgement, coding, and video-interview assessments that score, rank, and recommend candidates for hiring and development decisions.
§ The record
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting is filed under ATS-integrated AI, SHL 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 SHL is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | DE | GB |
| Founded | 1972 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70 · SHL 60
2.0 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
18% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40 · SHL 50
1.8 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 35 · SHL 30
0.8 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62 · SHL 58
0.5 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 60 · SHL 58
0.3 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62 · SHL 60
0.2 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +1.9 — 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 +2 beside that +1.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 60 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 51 (F) | +2 | +1.9 |
§ 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 | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 17 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; SHL has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, across 3 distinct source domains, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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