§ The result
3 points separate LinkedIn Recruiter and Bullhorn.
LinkedIn Recruiter holds a 3-point edge over Bullhorn under rubric v1.0, 57 to 54, across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of LinkedIn Recruiter, with 1 level: LinkedIn Recruiter is ahead on Post-Market Monitoring and Bullhorn on Bias Audit Transparency. Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Bullhorn 35, LinkedIn Recruiter 50 — and at a 12% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Bullhorn
Bullhorn is a cloud-based applicant tracking system and CRM for staffing and recruiting agencies, with AI features (Bullhorn Copilot/Amplify, automation, and Textkernel-powered search and match) that source, screen, and rank candidates against jobs.
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
Bullhorn 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 | Bullhorn | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1999 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bullhorn 35 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bullhorn 58 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
1.4 weighted points to Bullhorn
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bullhorn 62 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
1.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bullhorn 60 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
0.7 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bullhorn 60 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bullhorn 60 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
0.3 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -3.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -3.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bullhorn minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | Bullhorn | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 67 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 66 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 68 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 57 (F) | -3 | -3.0 |
§ 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 | Bullhorn | 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% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | — | 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 | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 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% | 15 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Bullhorn has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 6 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 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Bullhorn, across 2 distinct source domains, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bullhorn last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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