Cezanne Recruitment

Cezanne Recruitment (formerly Occupop) is an applicant tracking system for SMEs that handles job posting, candidate management and interview scheduling. In its Recruitment PLUS+ tier it uses AI to score each CV from 0 to 100 against the job description, alongside weighted screening-question scores, knockout filters and optional AI anonymisation of CVs for hiring-manager review.
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HireAIScore rates Cezanne Recruitment 41 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric v1.0, last reviewed September 25, 2026. Cezanne Recruitment ranks 59 of 77 vendors rated in ATS-integrated AI, against a category average of 47. That score is drawn from 31 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for Cezanne Recruitment — 25 with a cited source, 6 recording that nothing was located.

Score breakdown

Cezanne Recruitment, criterion by criterion

Each rubric criterion is scored out of 100 on the cited evidence, then weighted into the total.

Weighted contribution shown to the right of each bar.

  1. Article 11 Technical Documentation

    Weight 20% · avg 51

    40

    +8.0

  2. Bias Audit Transparency

    Weight 18% · avg 41

    24

    +4.3

  3. FRIA Support

    Weight 15% · avg 32

    28

    +4.2

  4. Data Governance Disclosure

    Weight 15% · avg 54

    54

    +8.1

  5. Human Oversight Design

    Weight 12% · avg 57

    58

    +7.0

  6. Post-Market Monitoring

    Weight 12% · avg 42

    44

    +5.3

  7. Customer Documentation

    Weight 8% · avg 59

    57

    +4.6

Total weighted score

41.4(rounded to 41 for display)

Category avg is the mean raw score on that criterion across the 77 ATS-integrated AI vendors in scope of this rubric, this one included.

Strongest criterion

Human Oversight Design

58raw / 100

Contributes 7.0 to the total. 58 against a 57 category average.

Weakest criterion

Bias Audit Transparency

24raw / 100

Contributes 4.3 to the total. 24 against a 41 category average.

Cited evidence

The evidence behind the score

Every score is backed by at least one cited piece of evidence. Open a criterion to see what was found, when, and where.

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Evidence ledger

Items
31
Documentation
22
Public statement
3
Absence
6
With a source URL
25 of 31
Source hostnames
3
Fewest items
3
FRIA Support

These figures measure how thoroughly Cezanne Recruitment was reviewed, not how Cezanne Recruitment performed — an absence row, recording that nothing was located, is counted like any other item.

Article 11 Technical Documentation

5 items40
  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Cezanne's AI in HR page lists five guiding principles (Be Useful, Supportive Role, Accuracy of Information, Robust Security, Transparency and Trust) but names no model, validation method, framework or standard.

    https://cezannehr.com/ai-in-hr/

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Help-centre article explains that the AI CV Score compares a candidate's CV with the job description to produce a numerical score with a written rationale, and that the Total Score averages it with smart-question and interview scores.

    https://knowledge-base.cezannehr.com/candidate-scoring-

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Explains that parsed CV text, stripped of formatting, is compared with the job description to give a 0–100 score, and admits that image-only CVs go unscored and can put candidates at a disadvantage.

    https://knowledge-base.cezannehr.com/guidelines-for-candidate-cv-formatting.-

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    April/May 2026 release notes record an updated AI model for CV scoring and blind scoring 'to deliver more accurate results' without naming the model or publishing any validation figures.

    https://knowledge-base.cezannehr.com/recruitment-april/may-2026-release-notes

  • AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    No model card, technical documentation pack, explainability statement, ISO/IEC 42001 certification or EU AI Act instructions for use was found on cezannehr.com (AI in HR, recruitment, data security and GDPR pages) or in the Cezanne Recruitment help centre.

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Bias Audit Transparency

4 items24

FRIA Support

3 items28

Data Governance Disclosure

5 items54
  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The data security page states that the ISMS for the Cezanne HR service is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified by BSI (certificate IS 696606), that Cezanne is Cyber Essentials certified, that data is hosted in AWS EU data centres and that a DPO is registered with the ICO, and it notes that other modules may have different hosting and security architecture.

    https://cezannehr.com/data-security/

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The June 2026 group sub-processor schedule (v2.3) names Bid Recruit Limited (formerly Occupop, Dublin) as the affiliate supporting Cezanne Recruitment and lists its sub-processors, including AWS EMEA (Ireland and Germany) for hosting and US-based Postmark for candidate email, but names no separate AI model provider.

    https://cezannehr.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CezanneHR-List-of-Sub-Processors_v2.3-4.pdf

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The Blind Scoring FAQ states that candidate data goes to a 'Cezanne controlled LLM', is deleted immediately after processing and is never used for model training or shared with other customers.

    https://knowledge-base.cezannehr.com/blind-scoring-cv-anonymisation

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Admins can set CV retention from 3 months to 2 years or switch it off, and candidates who do not opt in to future roles have their data deleted 30 days after the job closes.

    https://knowledge-base.cezannehr.com/new-user-guide-for-administrators-company-settings

  • AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    No disclosure was found of which model powers AI CV scoring, what training or validation data it uses, or which CV content (such as names, addresses or dates) is excluded from scoring.

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Human Oversight Design

5 items58

Post-Market Monitoring

4 items44
  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    An Atlassian Statuspage with separate Cezanne OnDemand and Cezanne Recruitment components, RSS/Atom subscriptions and scheduled-maintenance notices.

    https://status.cezannehr.com

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The incident feed lists four incidents in 2026, two of them for Cezanne Recruitment (degraded availability on 5 March and CV display issues on 30 March), none with a postmortem.

    https://status.cezannehr.com/api/v2/incidents.json

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    Recruitment release notes, published every month or two, announced the new status page and an 'enhanced' AI CV scoring tool in January 2026, but give no model version or evaluation data.

    https://knowledge-base.cezannehr.com/recruitment-january-2026-release-notes

  • AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    No security.txt (cezannehr.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404), vulnerability disclosure programme or dedicated security contact beyond info@cezannehr.com was found, and no AI-specific drift, accuracy or fairness monitoring is published.

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Customer Documentation

5 items57
  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The product page has FAQs on its AI features (automated CV scoring, smart application filtering, pre-built ChatGPT prompt tools), the Recruitment PLUS+ tier, fairness and ISO 27001 security.

    https://cezannehr.com/hr-systems/recruitment/

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The public help centre explains each scoring method, how to read and sort scores and how to disable AI CV scoring, alongside FAQs on Blind Scoring and CV formatting.

    https://knowledge-base.cezannehr.com/candidate-scoring-

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The AI in HR hub sets out Cezanne's guiding principles and an FAQ noting that UK GDPR gives a right to human review for automated decisions with a real effect on someone.

    https://cezannehr.com/ai-in-hr/

  • DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    The hiring software page advertises DE&I reporting, automatic CV deletion and ECNI, EEOC and OFCCP reporting compliance features.

    https://cezannehr.com/hr-systems/hiring-software/

  • AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026

    No EU AI Act deployer guidance, no NYC Local Law 144 or Illinois candidate-notice guidance and no publicly downloadable DPA was found, and the data security page says the agreement is available on request.

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Editorial notes

Company overview

Cezanne Recruitment, sold as 'powered by Occupop', is the applicant tracking system of Cezanne HR Limited, a London HR and payroll software company incorporated in 2012 and backed by NorthEdge since March 2023. On 12 March 2025 Cezanne bought Dublin-based Occupop. Occupop's company, Bid Recruit Limited (incorporated in 2016), still supports the app as a group affiliate. occupop.com now redirects to cezannehr.com, and Occupop replaced Cezanne's older Inrecruiting ATS. The product is aimed at SMEs and is sold on its own or with the Cezanne HRIS. In the Recruitment PLUS+ tier, an AI CV Score compares each parsed CV with the job description and gives a 0–100 score with a written rationale. Other features sit alongside it: weighted 'smart question' scores, rule-based knockout questions that can reject applicants automatically, and, since May 2026, an optional LLM-based Blind Scoring feature that removes personal details from CVs before hiring managers see them. Cezanne publishes AI guiding principles, a detailed help centre, its ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification and a sub-processor schedule. It has published no bias audit and no model documentation.

Regulatory exposure

Scoring CVs against a job description to rank applicants is candidate evaluation, which the EU AI Act treats as high-risk (Annex III point 4). The app is built by an Irish affiliate and sold in the UK, Ireland and other European markets. Provider duties such as technical documentation, risk management and instructions for use will therefore apply from 2 December 2027, after the Digital AI Omnibus deferral. Cezanne's only public mention of the Act is a blog line that pairs 'GDPR & AI Act compliance' with 'no manual data cleanup needed'. In the UK, its own blog tells employers that automated recruitment decisions still need notice, a way to contest them and human review. The hiring-software page advertises EEOC and OFCCP reporting, and US English became a user language in 2026, so US customers could bring the score under several rules. NYC Local Law 144 requires an annual independent bias audit and candidate notice. Cezanne has published no audit, and DCWP has promised tougher enforcement after a critical December 2025 State Comptroller audit. Illinois HB 3773 adds notice duties, and Colorado's SB 26-189 disclosures start on 1 January 2027. California's FEHA rules require records to be kept for four years, which sits awkwardly with the help centre's statement that data of candidates who do not opt in to future roles is deleted 30 days after a job closes. The product does no video or emotion analysis, so Art. 5(1)(f) and Illinois' AI Video Interview Act do not apply.

Path to a higher score

The biggest gain would come from an independent bias audit of the AI CV Score, repeated each year and published in full with selection rates and impact ratios by sex, race/ethnicity and their intersections. Cezanne should also publish a model card covering CV scoring and Blind Scoring. It should say which model runs where and what CV content is ignored, show how the accuracy claims in its release notes were validated, and list known limits such as image-only CVs going unscored. Adding selection rates by AI-score band to the diversity report would let customers monitor outcomes themselves. Deployer support would improve with EU AI Act instructions for use, a fundamental rights impact assessment template, and candidate-notice templates for UK, NYC and Illinois use. Smaller gains would come from naming the AI processing in the sub-processor schedule, stating the ISO 27001 scope for the recruitment app, publishing a DPA and a security contact, and adding postmortems to the status page.

Regulatory frame

What applies to ATS-integrated AI.

Ranking features are inside EU AI Act Annex III §4 (high-risk) and inside NYC Local Law 144 when they affect NYC-based candidates. Customers should treat the AI surface as a distinct deployer-FRIA scope from the rest of the ATS.

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