§ The result
Handshake leads Cezanne Recruitment on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Handshake, filed under Screening, finishes on 50 and Cezanne Recruitment, filed under ATS-integrated, on 41, 9 points apart. Cezanne Recruitment is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Handshake takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, Cezanne Recruitment 28 to Handshake 30. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cezanne Recruitment 24, Handshake 52 — and at an 18% weight it carries 62% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
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.
Vendor profile
Handshake
Handshake is an early-career recruiting network whose employer tools use AI to rank applicants against employer-set criteria, find and message matching students and graduates, and target job promotions.
§ The record
Cezanne Recruitment is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Handshake under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Cezanne Recruitment | Handshake |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cezanne Recruitment 24 · Handshake 52
5.0 weighted points to Handshake
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 40 · Handshake 48
1.6 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cezanne Recruitment 44 · Handshake 48
0.5 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cezanne Recruitment 54 · Handshake 57
0.4 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cezanne Recruitment 28 · Handshake 30
0.3 weighted points to Handshake
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cezanne Recruitment 57 · Handshake 60
0.2 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -8.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.1 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 -8.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cezanne Recruitment minus Handshake.
| Category | Weight | Cezanne Recruitment | Handshake | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 48 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 24 | 52 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 57 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 48 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 50 (F) | -9 | -8.1 |
§ 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 | Cezanne Recruitment | Handshake | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Cezanne Recruitment has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Handshake has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake 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: 31 for Cezanne Recruitment, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cezanne Recruitment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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