§ The result
2 points separate LinkedIn Recruiter and Gem.
Under rubric v1.0, LinkedIn Recruiter and Gem finish 2 points apart, 57 to 55, as two Sourcing entries. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of LinkedIn Recruiter: LinkedIn Recruiter is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Gem on Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing are the same criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, and Gem holds it (Gem 66, LinkedIn Recruiter 50, 18% weight), worth 100% of the weighted advantage Gem builds across the 1 criterion it leads.
Vendor profile
Gem
Gem is an AI-first recruiting platform combining a talent CRM, AI sourcing and outreach automation, candidate engagement, and a newer applicant tracking system with AI-powered application review and ranking.
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
Gem and LinkedIn Recruiter are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Gem | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Gem 66 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
2.9 weighted points to Gem
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Gem 58 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Gem 57 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
0.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Gem 61 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Gem 62 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
0.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Gem 35 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
0.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Gem 47 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
0.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -1.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Gem minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | Gem | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 67 | -9 | -1.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 66 | 50 | +16 | +2.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 62 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 61 | 66 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 50 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 68 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 55 (F) | 57 (F) | -2 | -1.6 |
§ 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 | Gem | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 3 | 0 | 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% | 2 | 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | 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% | 19 | 2 | 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 |
Gem has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 2 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 Gem and LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for Gem, across 2 distinct source domains, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Gem last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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