§ The result
SHL leads ZipRecruiter on 6 of the 7 criteria.
SHL sits 11 points above ZipRecruiter under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 40 — with SHL filed under Assessment and ZipRecruiter under Sourcing. SHL leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so ZipRecruiter is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 SHL leads is FRIA Support, SHL 30 to ZipRecruiter 27. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (SHL 50, ZipRecruiter 24) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 43% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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.
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
SHL is filed under Assessment AI, ZipRecruiter under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only SHL is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | SHL | ZipRecruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 1977 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SHL 50 · ZipRecruiter 24
4.7 weighted points to SHL
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SHL 60 · ZipRecruiter 40
4.0 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SHL 58 · ZipRecruiter 52
0.9 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SHL 60 · ZipRecruiter 54
0.5 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SHL 30 · ZipRecruiter 27
0.4 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SHL 58 · ZipRecruiter 55
0.4 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +10.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +10.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SHL minus ZipRecruiter.
| Category | Weight | SHL | ZipRecruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 24 | +26 | +4.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 54 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 40 (F) | +11 | +10.9 |
§ 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 | SHL | ZipRecruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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% | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
SHL has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 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 ZipRecruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for ZipRecruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ZipRecruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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