§ The result
Handshake leads JobDiva on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Handshake (Screening) opens a 21-point lead on JobDiva (ATS-integrated), 50 to 29. Handshake takes all 7 criteria and JobDiva none of them; the nearest contest is FRIA Support, Handshake 30 to JobDiva 22. The advantage Handshake holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Handshake 52, JobDiva 15, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 33% of the weighted points Handshake gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
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.
Vendor profile
JobDiva
JobDiva is an all-in-one ATS, CRM, onboarding, back-office and VMS-synchronization platform for staffing agencies, with AI features including DivaMatch candidate-to-job scoring, AI-enhanced matching and semantic search, resume harvesting and generative outreach.
§ The record
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, JobDiva under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Handshake is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Handshake | JobDiva |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2003 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Handshake 52 · JobDiva 15
6.7 weighted points to Handshake
20% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Handshake 48 · JobDiva 28
4.0 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Handshake 57 · JobDiva 38
2.9 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Handshake 58 · JobDiva 40
2.2 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Handshake 48 · JobDiva 30
2.2 weighted points to Handshake
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Handshake 60 · JobDiva 42
1.4 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Handshake 30 · JobDiva 22
1.2 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +20.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +21 beside that +20.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus JobDiva.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | JobDiva | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 28 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 15 | +37 | +6.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 38 | +19 | +2.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 30 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 42 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 29 (F) | +21 | +20.5 |
§ 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 | JobDiva | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 4 | 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 | 2 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 20 | 8 | 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; JobDiva has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 8 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 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 28 for JobDiva, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- JobDiva last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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