Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Indeed
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
Indeed
Job marketplace whose employer-side AI (the Talent Scout agent, Sourcing Assistant, Smart Screening and candidate matching) sources, ranks and scores candidates from Indeed's profile pool and applicant flow and drafts outreach to them.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
The result
Handshake and Indeed tie at 50.
Handshake, filed under Screening, and Indeed, filed under Sourcing, tie at 50 under rubric v1.0 by different routes through the criteria. Handshake leads 2 of the 7 criteria and Indeed 5, yet the two totals land on the same number. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 52, Indeed 38 — and at an 18% weight it carries 72% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake2
- Indeed5
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 38
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Indeed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Indeed |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2004 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight33% of the movement so far
Handshake52Indeed382.5 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight58% of the movement so far
Handshake48Indeed582.0 weighted points to Indeed
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight74% of the movement so far
Handshake30Indeed381.2 weighted points to Indeed
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight86% of the movement so far
Handshake48Indeed401.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight94% of the movement so far
Handshake58Indeed630.6 weighted points to Indeed
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight98% of the movement so far
Handshake60Indeed640.3 weighted points to Indeed
- 7
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake57Indeed580.1 weighted points to Indeed
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.8.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Indeed, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Indeed | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 38 | +14 | +2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 64 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 50F | - | -0.8 |
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 | Indeed | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 5 | 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 | 4 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 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 | 36 | 5 | Sources 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; Indeed has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and Indeed sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 74 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 40 for Indeed, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Indeed last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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