§ The result
SEEK leads ZipRecruiter on all 7 criteria.
SEEK, filed under Screening, comes out 14 points above ZipRecruiter, filed under Sourcing: 54 against 40 under rubric v1.0. Of the 7 criteria ZipRecruiter wins none, and the narrowest lead SEEK holds is on FRIA Support, SEEK 32 to ZipRecruiter 27. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — SEEK 70, ZipRecruiter 40 — and at a 20% weight it carries 44% of the weighted advantage SEEK holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
ZipRecruiter
ZipRecruiter is an online employment marketplace whose AI matching engine sends employers' job postings out, alerts matched job seekers and invites them to apply, and labels and ranks applicants (for example as 'Great Match') in the employer's candidate dashboard.
§ The record
SEEK is filed under Screening AI, ZipRecruiter under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | SEEK | ZipRecruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 1997 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SEEK 70 · ZipRecruiter 40
6.0 weighted points to SEEK
18% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SEEK 40 · ZipRecruiter 24
2.9 weighted points to SEEK
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SEEK 60 · ZipRecruiter 52
1.2 weighted points to SEEK
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SEEK 50 · ZipRecruiter 40
1.2 weighted points to SEEK
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SEEK 62 · ZipRecruiter 55
0.8 weighted points to SEEK
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SEEK 64 · ZipRecruiter 54
0.8 weighted points to SEEK
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SEEK 32 · ZipRecruiter 27
0.8 weighted points to SEEK
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SEEK minus ZipRecruiter.
| Category | Weight | SEEK | ZipRecruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 40 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 24 | +16 | +2.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 27 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 54 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 40 (F) | +14 | +13.7 |
§ 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 | SEEK | ZipRecruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
SEEK has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; ZipRecruiter has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SEEK and ZipRecruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for SEEK, across 3 distinct source domains, and 33 for ZipRecruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SEEK last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ZipRecruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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