Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs TalentLens
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
TalentLens
TalentLens, Pearson's workplace psychometrics brand, publishes the Watson-Glaser critical-thinking test, Raven's Adaptive, BMCT-II and DAT Next Generation, which candidates take online and which are scored automatically against norm groups to produce percentile-based reports for hiring and development.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
4 points separate Handshake and TalentLens.
Handshake (Screening) edges TalentLens (Assessment) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 50 to 46. Handshake leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while TalentLens leads 1, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. One criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, is both the widest raw gap (Handshake 48, TalentLens 32) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 12% weight it makes up 43% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake5
- TalentLens1
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Post-Market Monitoring48 vs 32
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Post-Market Monitoring12% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, TalentLens under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only TalentLens is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | TalentLens |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | Not recorded |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight36% of the movement so far
Handshake48TalentLens321.9 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight60% of the movement so far
Handshake52TalentLens451.3 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight80% of the movement so far
Handshake57TalentLens501.1 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight95% of the movement so far
Handshake48TalentLens520.8 weighted points to TalentLens
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight98% of the movement so far
Handshake60TalentLens580.2 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake58TalentLens570.1 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +3.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.3 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 +3.7.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus TalentLens, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | TalentLens | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 32 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 46F | +4 | +3.7 |
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 | TalentLens | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 24 | 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; TalentLens has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and TalentLens sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for TalentLens, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TalentLens last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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