Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Zoho Recruit
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
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
Handshake leads Zoho Recruit on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Handshake, filed under Screening, finishes on 50 and Zoho Recruit, filed under ATS-integrated, on 42, 8 points apart. Zoho Recruit is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Handshake takes 5, the remaining 2 are level, and the nearest of those 5 is Data Governance Disclosure, Handshake 57 to Zoho Recruit 55. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Handshake 52, Zoho Recruit 24 — and at an 18% weight it carries 64% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake5
- Zoho Recruit0
- Level2
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 24
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Zoho Recruit under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of
Only Zoho Recruit is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2014 | 1996 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight64% of the movement so far
Handshake52Zoho Recruit245.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Human Oversight Design
12% weight76% of the movement so far
Handshake58Zoho Recruit501.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight89% of the movement so far
Handshake48Zoho Recruit401.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight96% of the movement so far
Handshake48Zoho Recruit450.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake57Zoho Recruit550.3 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +7.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +7.9.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Zoho Recruit, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 45 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 24 | +28 | +5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 42F | +8 | +7.9 |
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 | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | 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 | 10 | 7 | 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; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 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 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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