§ The result
Test Partnership leads ZipRecruiter by 10 points.
Test Partnership sits 10 points above ZipRecruiter under rubric v1.0 — 50 against 40 — with Test Partnership filed under Assessment and ZipRecruiter under Sourcing. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Test Partnership: Test Partnership is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and ZipRecruiter on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Test Partnership 48, ZipRecruiter 24) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 40% of the weighted advantage Test Partnership holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Test Partnership
Test Partnership publishes computer-adaptive aptitude tests, the TPAQ personality questionnaire and MindmetriQ game-based cognitive assessments. Employers review, rank and export the resulting norm-referenced percentile and sten scores in its dashboard, through its API or in integrated ATSs.
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
Test Partnership 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 Test Partnership is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Test Partnership | ZipRecruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Test Partnership 48 · ZipRecruiter 24
4.3 weighted points to Test Partnership
20% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Test Partnership 57 · ZipRecruiter 40
3.4 weighted points to Test Partnership
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Test Partnership 36 · ZipRecruiter 27
1.3 weighted points to Test Partnership
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Test Partnership 33 · ZipRecruiter 40
0.8 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Test Partnership 57 · ZipRecruiter 52
0.8 weighted points to Test Partnership
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Test Partnership 62 · ZipRecruiter 54
0.6 weighted points to Test Partnership
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Test Partnership 58 · ZipRecruiter 55
0.4 weighted points to Test Partnership
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Test Partnership minus ZipRecruiter.
| Category | Weight | Test Partnership | ZipRecruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 57 | 40 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 24 | +24 | +4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 27 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 52 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 40 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 54 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 40 (F) | +10 | +10.0 |
§ 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 | Test Partnership | ZipRecruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Test Partnership has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 6 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 Test Partnership and ZipRecruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Test Partnership, across 3 distinct source domains, and 33 for ZipRecruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Test Partnership last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ZipRecruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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