§ The result
4 points separate LinkedIn Recruiter and Criteria.
LinkedIn Recruiter (Sourcing) edges Criteria (Assessment) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 57 to 53. LinkedIn Recruiter leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Human Oversight Design, while Criteria leads 1, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. Even Human Oversight Design, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Criteria 56, LinkedIn Recruiter 66, 12% weight), is only 30% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter builds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
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
Criteria is filed under Assessment AI, LinkedIn Recruiter under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Criteria is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Criteria | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2006 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Criteria 56 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Criteria 42 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
1.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Criteria 32 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
0.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Criteria 60 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Criteria 48 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
0.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Criteria 68 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
0.2 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -3.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -3.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 67 | +1 | +0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 38 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 66 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 68 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 57 (F) | -4 | -3.9 |
§ 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 | Criteria | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 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% | 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 | 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% | 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% | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 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 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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