Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Wonderlic
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
Wonderlic
Wonderlic Select (formerly WonScore) is a pre-employment assessment that combines cognitive ability, personality, and motivation tests to score and rank candidates for job fit.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
Handshake leads Wonderlic by 7 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Handshake, filed under Screening, finishes on 50 and Wonderlic, filed under Assessment, on 43, 7 points apart. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Handshake: Handshake is ahead on Data Governance Disclosure and Wonderlic on Article 11 Technical Documentation. Even Data Governance Disclosure, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Handshake 57, Wonderlic 38, 15% weight), is only 39% of the weighted advantage Handshake builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake6
- Wonderlic1
- Widest raw gap
- Data Governance Disclosure57 vs 38
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Data Governance Disclosure15% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Wonderlic under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Wonderlic is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Wonderlic |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 1937 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight35% of the movement so far
Handshake57Wonderlic382.9 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight58% of the movement so far
Handshake48Wonderlic331.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight68% of the movement so far
Handshake48Wonderlic520.8 weighted points to Wonderlic
- 4
FRIA Support
15% weight77% of the movement so far
Handshake30Wonderlic250.8 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight86% of the movement so far
Handshake52Wonderlic480.7 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight95% of the movement so far
Handshake58Wonderlic520.7 weighted points to Handshake
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake60Wonderlic550.4 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +6.4 — 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 +6.4.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Wonderlic, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Wonderlic | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 48 | +4 | +0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 38 | +19 | +2.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 33 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 43F | +7 | +6.4 |
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 | Wonderlic | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 9 | 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; Wonderlic has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 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 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 15 for Wonderlic, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wonderlic last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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