Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs VidCruiter
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
VidCruiter
VidCruiter is an enterprise recruitment platform combining live and pre-recorded video interviewing, structured interview workflows, automated scheduling, skills testing, automated reference checks, and AI features such as transcript-based AI Interview Scoring, AI Interview Notes, and AI fraud detection.
Substantial gaps
Video interview
The result
2 points separate Handshake and VidCruiter.
Handshake holds a 2-point edge over VidCruiter under rubric v1.0, 50 to 48, across the Screening and Video interview cohorts. The criteria split evenly, 3 each to Handshake and VidCruiter, with 1 level, and the weighted points on the side Handshake holds, headed by Bias Audit Transparency, settle the total. Handshake takes the heaviest weighted swing, Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Handshake 52, VidCruiter 38), which is 56% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, Handshake 48 to VidCruiter 33.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake3
- VidCruiter3
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Post-Market Monitoring48 vs 33
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, VidCruiter under Video interview AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only VidCruiter is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | VidCruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2014 | 2012 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight35% of the movement so far
Handshake52VidCruiter382.5 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight62% of the movement so far
Handshake48VidCruiter582.0 weighted points to VidCruiter
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight87% of the movement so far
Handshake48VidCruiter331.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight94% of the movement so far
Handshake58VidCruiter620.5 weighted points to VidCruiter
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight98% of the movement so far
Handshake30VidCruiter320.3 weighted points to VidCruiter
- 6
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake57VidCruiter560.1 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +1.7 — 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 +2 beside that +1.7.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus VidCruiter, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | VidCruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 38 | +14 | +2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 56 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 33 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 48F | +2 | +1.7 |
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 | VidCruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 12 | 6 | 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; VidCruiter has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 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 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for VidCruiter, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- VidCruiter last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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