§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Emmersion by 12 points.
Workday Recruiting AI, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 12 points above Emmersion, filed under Assessment: 56 against 44 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Workday Recruiting AI: Workday Recruiting AI is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Emmersion on Post-Market Monitoring. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Emmersion 28, Workday Recruiting AI 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Emmersion
Emmersion, Rosetta Stone's assessment division within IXL Learning, sells AI-scored adaptive TrueNorth speaking and writing tests and WebCAPE reading and grammar exams. They rate language proficiency on a 0-10 scale mapped to CEFR and ACTFL and are used for pre-employment screening, checking employees' language skills and placing students.
Vendor profile
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
Emmersion is filed under Assessment AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Emmersion is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Emmersion | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emmersion 28 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
5.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
20% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emmersion 57 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
2.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emmersion 53 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emmersion 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emmersion 50 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emmersion 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emmersion 38 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.4 weighted points to Emmersion
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -11.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emmersion minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Emmersion | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 57 | 70 | -13 | -2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 60 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 65 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 65 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 56 (F) | -12 | -11.3 |
§ 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 | Emmersion | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 35 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Emmersion sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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