Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs HireVue
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
HireVue
Asynchronous video interviewing platform with optional AI-driven assessment scoring of candidate responses.
Substantial gaps
Video interview
The result
HireVue leads Handshake by 8 points.
HireVue scores 58 and Handshake 50 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Video interview and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 3 in favour of HireVue: HireVue is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Handshake on Customer Documentation. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Handshake 52, HireVue 80) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 53% of the weighted advantage HireVue holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake3
- HireVue4
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 80
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, HireVue under Video interview AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only HireVue is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | HireVue |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2004 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight48% of the movement so far
Handshake52HireVue805.0 weighted points to HireVue
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight80% of the movement so far
Handshake48HireVue653.4 weighted points to HireVue
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight88% of the movement so far
Handshake30HireVue350.8 weighted points to HireVue
- 4
Customer Documentation
8% weight91% of the movement so far
Handshake60HireVue550.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight95% of the movement so far
Handshake48HireVue450.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight98% of the movement so far
Handshake57HireVue550.3 weighted points to Handshake
- 7
Human Oversight Design
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake58HireVue600.2 weighted points to HireVue
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.5 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 -8.4.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus HireVue, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | HireVue | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 65 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 80 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 45 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 58F | -8 | -8.4 |
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 | HireVue | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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% | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Handshake has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; HireVue has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and HireVue sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 15 for HireVue, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireVue last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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