§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads HiredScore by 5 points.
Inside the Sourcing cohort, rubric v1.0 puts LinkedIn Recruiter on 57 and HiredScore on 52, 5 points apart. LinkedIn Recruiter leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while HiredScore leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. The advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds is spread out: Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (HiredScore 35, LinkedIn Recruiter 50, 12% weight), yet it supplies only 31% of the weighted points LinkedIn Recruiter gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
Vendor profile
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is LinkedIn's enterprise sourcing and candidate-management platform, whose Hiring Assistant add-on and AI-Assisted Search use AI to turn intake notes into qualifications, source and rank candidates, evaluate applicants against recruiter-set qualifications, and draft or send outreach.
§ The record
HiredScore and LinkedIn Recruiter are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only LinkedIn Recruiter is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | HiredScore | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 45% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiredScore 30 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiredScore 55 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
1.1 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiredScore 55 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
0.9 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiredScore 60 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
0.7 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiredScore 60 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
0.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -4.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 67 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 66 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 68 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 57 (F) | -5 | -4.9 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiredScore and LinkedIn Recruiter 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: 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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