§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads ADP on all 7 criteria.
LinkedIn Recruiter scores 57 and ADP 48 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. LinkedIn Recruiter is ahead of ADP on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Bias Audit Transparency at ADP 46 to LinkedIn Recruiter 50. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (ADP 53, LinkedIn Recruiter 67, 20% weight), is only 33% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
ADP
ADP is an enterprise human capital management and payroll provider whose recruiting suite uses AI to parse, rank, and match job applicants via its Candidate Relevancy tool, ADP Assist generative-AI assistant/job-description generator, and skills intelligence.
Vendor profile
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is LinkedIn's enterprise sourcing and candidate-management platform, whose Hiring Assistant add-on and AI-Assisted Search use AI to turn intake notes into qualifications, source and rank candidates, evaluate applicants against recruiter-set qualifications, and draft or send outreach.
§ The record
ADP is filed under ATS-integrated AI, LinkedIn Recruiter under Candidate sourcing 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.
| Record | ADP | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1949 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ADP 53 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
2.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ADP 28 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
1.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ADP 55 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
1.3 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ADP 58 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
0.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ADP 57 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
0.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ADP 46 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
0.7 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ADP 45 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -9 beside that -8.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | ADP | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 67 | -14 | -2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 50 | -4 | -0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 38 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 62 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 66 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 50 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 68 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 57 (F) | -9 | -8.5 |
§ 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 | ADP | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
ADP has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next