Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs UKG
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
UKG
UKG is an enterprise HCM and workforce-management suite whose UKG Pro Recruiting applicant-tracking module, augmented by the embedded Bryte AI layer, drafts job descriptions and produces profile-match candidate scores to rank and shortlist applicants.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
Handshake leads UKG by 6 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Handshake, filed under Screening, finishes on 50 and UKG, filed under ATS-integrated, on 44, 6 points apart. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Handshake, with 1 level: Handshake is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and UKG on FRIA Support. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 52, UKG 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 62% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake5
- UKG1
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 30
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, UKG under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Handshake | UKG |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2020 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight55% of the movement so far
Handshake52UKG304.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight72% of the movement so far
Handshake48UKG381.2 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight82% of the movement so far
Handshake30UKG350.8 weighted points to UKG
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight92% of the movement so far
Handshake58UKG520.7 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight98% of the movement so far
Handshake60UKG550.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake57UKG560.1 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +5.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +5.7.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus UKG, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | UKG | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 48 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 30 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 56 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 38 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 44F | +6 | +5.7 |
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 | UKG | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 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 | 0 | 2 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 2 | — |
| 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 | 1 | 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 | 6 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Handshake has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; UKG has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 8 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 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for UKG, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- UKG last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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