Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Recruit CRM
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
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
Handshake leads Recruit CRM by 10 points.
Handshake, filed under Screening, comes out 10 points above Recruit CRM, filed under ATS-integrated: 50 against 40 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 4 to 1 in favour of Handshake, with 2 level: Handshake is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Recruit CRM on FRIA Support. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 52, Recruit CRM 20 — and at an 18% weight it carries 59% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake4
- Recruit CRM1
- Level2
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 20
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
Keep this comparison
Both scores and all 7 criteria, side by side, in your inbox.
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of
Only Handshake is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | Not recorded |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight56% of the movement so far
Handshake52Recruit CRM205.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight83% of the movement so far
Handshake48Recruit CRM342.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight90% of the movement so far
Handshake48Recruit CRM420.7 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
FRIA Support
15% weight96% of the movement so far
Handshake30Recruit CRM340.6 weighted points to Recruit CRM
- 5
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake57Recruit CRM540.4 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +9.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +9.1.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Recruit CRM, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 34 | +14 | +2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 20 | +32 | +5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 34 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 54 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 42 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 40F | +10 | +9.1 |
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 | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 30 | 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; Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
HireAIScore scores are editorial research, not legal advice, and no vendor pays for placement, scoring or removal — see the methodology, conflicts policy and terms.