§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads eSkill by 15 points.
Workday Recruiting AI finishes 15 points clear of eSkill under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 41 — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Workday Recruiting AI leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while eSkill leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (eSkill 25, Workday Recruiting AI 60) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 44% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 6 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
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
eSkill 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 eSkill is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | eSkill | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2003 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
eSkill 25 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
6.3 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
eSkill 48 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
4.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
eSkill 47 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
1.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
eSkill 57 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
eSkill 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
eSkill 56 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.7 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
eSkill 36 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.1 weighted points to eSkill
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -14.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is eSkill minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | eSkill | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 70 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 60 | -35 | -6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 47 | 55 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 65 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 35 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 65 | -9 | -0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 56 (F) | -15 | -14.2 |
§ 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 | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
eSkill has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 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 eSkill sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for eSkill, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- eSkill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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