Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs LinkedIn Recruiter
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
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is LinkedIn's enterprise sourcing and candidate-management platform, whose Hiring Assistant add-on and AI-Assisted Search use AI to turn intake notes into qualifications, source and rank candidates, evaluate applicants against recruiter-set qualifications, and draft or send outreach.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Handshake by 7 points.
LinkedIn Recruiter scores 57 and Handshake 50 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. LinkedIn Recruiter leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Handshake leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Handshake 48, LinkedIn Recruiter 67) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 50% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake1
- LinkedIn Recruiter6
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation48 vs 67
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, LinkedIn Recruiter under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Handshake | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2002 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight48% of the movement so far
Handshake48LinkedIn Recruiter673.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
- 2
FRIA Support
15% weight63% of the movement so far
Handshake30LinkedIn Recruiter381.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
- 3
Human Oversight Design
12% weight75% of the movement so far
Handshake58LinkedIn Recruiter661.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight84% of the movement so far
Handshake57LinkedIn Recruiter620.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight92% of the movement so far
Handshake60LinkedIn Recruiter680.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
- 6
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight97% of the movement so far
Handshake52LinkedIn Recruiter500.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 7
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake48LinkedIn Recruiter500.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -7.2.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus LinkedIn Recruiter, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 67 | -19 | -3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 62 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 66 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 68 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 57F | -7 | -7.2 |
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 | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | 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 | 34 | 5 | 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; LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 73 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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