§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads HireQuotient on all 7 criteria.
The Sourcing cohort pairing of LinkedIn Recruiter and HireQuotient comes out 57 to 34 under rubric v1.0, a 23-point lead for LinkedIn Recruiter. LinkedIn Recruiter leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; HireQuotient leads none. The advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (HireQuotient 35, LinkedIn Recruiter 67, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 28% of the weighted points LinkedIn Recruiter gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
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
HireQuotient and LinkedIn Recruiter are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only HireQuotient is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireQuotient | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireQuotient 35 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
6.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireQuotient 18 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
5.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
3.3 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireQuotient 22 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
2.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
2.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireQuotient 50 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
1.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 57 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
1.1 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -22.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -23 beside that -22.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireQuotient minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 67 | -32 | -6.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 50 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 38 | -16 | -2.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 62 | -22 | -3.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 66 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 50 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 68 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 57 (F) | -23 | -22.8 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 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 LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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