Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Workday Recruiting AI
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
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Handshake by 6 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Workday Recruiting AI, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 56 and Handshake, filed under Screening, on 50, 6 points apart. Workday Recruiting AI leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Handshake leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 48, Workday Recruiting AI 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 56% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake2
- Workday Recruiting AI5
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation48 vs 70
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of
Only Handshake is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2005 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight45% of the movement so far
Handshake48Workday Recruiting AI704.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight62% of the movement so far
Handshake48Workday Recruiting AI351.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight76% of the movement so far
Handshake52Workday Recruiting AI601.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight85% of the movement so far
Handshake58Workday Recruiting AI650.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight93% of the movement so far
Handshake30Workday Recruiting AI350.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight97% of the movement so far
Handshake60Workday Recruiting AI650.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
- 7
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake57Workday Recruiting AI550.3 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -6.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.7 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 -6.0.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Workday Recruiting AI, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 70 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 65 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 35 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 65 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 56F | -6 | -6.0 |
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 | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | 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 | 2 | 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; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 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 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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