Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs HiredScore
Handshake
Handshake is an early-career recruiting network whose employer tools use AI to rank applicants against employer-set criteria, find and message matching students and graduates, and target job promotions.
Substantial gaps
Screening
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
The result
2 points separate HiredScore and Handshake.
HiredScore (Sourcing) edges Handshake (Screening) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 52 to 50. The 7 criteria split 3 to 2 in favour of HiredScore, with 2 level: HiredScore is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Handshake on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Handshake 48, HiredScore 65) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 81% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake2
- HiredScore3
- Level2
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation48 vs 65
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, HiredScore under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Handshake is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | HiredScore |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2012 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight56% of the movement so far
Handshake48HiredScore653.4 weighted points to HiredScore
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight82% of the movement so far
Handshake48HiredScore351.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight91% of the movement so far
Handshake52HiredScore550.5 weighted points to HiredScore
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight96% of the movement so far
Handshake57HiredScore550.3 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake58HiredScore600.2 weighted points to HiredScore
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -2.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.0 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 -2.3.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus HiredScore, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | HiredScore | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 65 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 35 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 52F | -2 | -2.3 |
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 | Handshake | HiredScore | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
Handshake has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and HiredScore sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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