§ The result
4 points separate Handshake and Korn Ferry.
Handshake holds a 4-point edge over Korn Ferry under rubric v1.0, 50 to 46, across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. Korn Ferry takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 6 for Handshake, whose share includes Post-Market Monitoring. The heaviest weighted swing runs the other way — Korn Ferry takes Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20%, Handshake 48 to Korn Ferry 58, 100% of the weighted advantage Korn Ferry holds — while the widest raw gap sits on Post-Market Monitoring, Handshake 48 to Korn Ferry 33.
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
Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry provides psychometric talent assessments (Korn Ferry Assess, the KF4D Four Dimensional assessment, KFALP leadership-potential assessment, and the Leadership Architect competency framework) used to evaluate candidates' personality, competencies, drivers, and cognitive ability for selection, promotion, and development decisions.
§ The record
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Korn Ferry under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Korn Ferry is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Handshake | Korn Ferry |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 1969 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Handshake 48 · Korn Ferry 58
2.0 weighted points to Korn Ferry
12% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Handshake 48 · Korn Ferry 33
1.8 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Handshake 30 · Korn Ferry 25
0.8 weighted points to Handshake
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Handshake 57 · Korn Ferry 52
0.8 weighted points to Handshake
18% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Handshake 52 · Korn Ferry 48
0.7 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Handshake 58 · Korn Ferry 52
0.7 weighted points to Handshake
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Handshake 60 · Korn Ferry 52
0.6 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +3.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Korn Ferry.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Korn Ferry | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 48 | +4 | +0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 52 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 33 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 46 (F) | +4 | +3.4 |
§ 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 | Korn Ferry | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | 10 | 7 | 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; Korn Ferry has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 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 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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