§ The result
Handshake leads Jobvite by 5 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Handshake, filed under Screening, finishes on 50 and Jobvite, filed under ATS-integrated, on 45, 5 points apart. Jobvite takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation 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, Jobvite 38 — and at an 18% weight it carries 56% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Jobvite
Jobvite is an enterprise applicant tracking and talent acquisition suite (part of Employ Inc.) that uses AI for candidate matching, intelligent messaging, and screening, with explanations of why candidates fit a role.
§ The record
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Jobvite under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Handshake | Jobvite |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2006 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Handshake 52 · Jobvite 38
2.5 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Handshake 48 · Jobvite 38
1.2 weighted points to Handshake
20% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Handshake 48 · Jobvite 50
0.4 weighted points to Jobvite
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Handshake 58 · Jobvite 55
0.4 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Handshake 57 · Jobvite 55
0.3 weighted points to Handshake
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Handshake 60 · Jobvite 58
0.2 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +4.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +4.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Jobvite.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Jobvite | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 38 | +14 | +2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 38 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 45 (F) | +5 | +4.1 |
§ 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 | Jobvite | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 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; Jobvite has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and Jobvite sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for Jobvite, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Jobvite last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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