§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads eSkill on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, LinkedIn Recruiter (Sourcing) opens a 16-point lead on eSkill (Assessment), 57 to 41. LinkedIn Recruiter leads every one of the 7 criteria, eSkill none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, eSkill 30 to LinkedIn Recruiter 38. The advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (eSkill 25, LinkedIn Recruiter 50, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 29% of the weighted points LinkedIn Recruiter gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
eSkill
eSkill is a pre-employment testing platform with auto-scored skills, cognitive and behavioral tests and human-rated one-way video interviews, plus an optional Proctorio-powered AI proctoring add-on that gives each candidate a suspicion score and a Claude-based "Linea" layer that drafts assessments from job descriptions.
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
eSkill is filed under Assessment AI, LinkedIn Recruiter under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only eSkill is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | eSkill | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2003 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
eSkill 25 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
4.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
20% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
eSkill 48 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
3.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
eSkill 47 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
2.3 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
eSkill 36 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
1.7 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
eSkill 30 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
eSkill 57 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
1.1 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
eSkill 56 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
1.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -15.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is eSkill minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | eSkill | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 67 | -19 | -3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 50 | -25 | -4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 47 | 62 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 66 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 50 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 68 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 57 (F) | -16 | -15.5 |
§ 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 | eSkill | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 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% | 5 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
eSkill has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 eSkill and LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for eSkill, across 2 distinct source domains, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- eSkill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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