§ The result
1 point separates LinkedIn Recruiter and Cornerstone OnDemand.
LinkedIn Recruiter holds a 1-point edge over Cornerstone OnDemand under rubric v1.0, 57 to 56, across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of LinkedIn Recruiter: LinkedIn Recruiter is ahead on Human Oversight Design and Cornerstone OnDemand on Bias Audit Transparency. The heaviest weighted swing runs the other way — Cornerstone OnDemand takes Bias Audit Transparency at 18%, Cornerstone OnDemand 58 to LinkedIn Recruiter 50, 59% of the weighted advantage Cornerstone OnDemand holds — while the widest raw gap sits on Human Oversight Design, Cornerstone OnDemand 55 to LinkedIn Recruiter 66.
Vendor profile
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand is an enterprise talent-management and learning suite whose Cornerstone Galaxy platform uses AI-driven skills extraction and matching (including the acquired SkyHive Skills Models) to power recruiting, candidate screening, and workforce development.
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
Cornerstone OnDemand is filed under ATS-integrated AI, LinkedIn Recruiter under Candidate sourcing 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. Only Cornerstone OnDemand is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cornerstone OnDemand | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1999 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cornerstone OnDemand 58 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
1.4 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
12% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cornerstone OnDemand 55 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
1.3 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cornerstone OnDemand 72 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
1.0 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
8% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cornerstone OnDemand 60 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cornerstone OnDemand 45 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cornerstone OnDemand 35 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
0.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cornerstone OnDemand 60 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
0.3 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -0.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cornerstone OnDemand minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | Cornerstone OnDemand | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 72 | 67 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 66 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 50 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 68 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 57 (F) | -1 | -0.9 |
§ 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 | Cornerstone OnDemand | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Cornerstone OnDemand has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 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 Cornerstone OnDemand and 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 Cornerstone OnDemand, across 2 distinct source domains, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cornerstone OnDemand last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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