Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs hireEZ
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
hireEZ
AI-powered outbound recruiting platform that sources, matches, screens, engages, and schedules candidates on top of a customer's existing ATS.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
The result
Handshake leads hireEZ by 8 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Handshake, filed under Screening, finishes on 50 and hireEZ, filed under Sourcing, on 42, 8 points apart. hireEZ takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Data Governance Disclosure among them, against 5 for Handshake, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 52, hireEZ 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake5
- hireEZ1
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 30
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, hireEZ under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Handshake | hireEZ |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2015 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight46% of the movement so far
Handshake52hireEZ304.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight70% of the movement so far
Handshake48hireEZ382.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight84% of the movement so far
Handshake48hireEZ381.2 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
FRIA Support
15% weight93% of the movement so far
Handshake30hireEZ250.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight98% of the movement so far
Handshake57hireEZ600.4 weighted points to hireEZ
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake60hireEZ580.2 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +7.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +7.6.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus hireEZ, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | hireEZ | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 38 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 30 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 38 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 42F | +8 | +7.6 |
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 | Handshake | hireEZ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Handshake has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; hireEZ has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for hireEZ, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- hireEZ last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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