§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads JobAdder on all 7 criteria.
LinkedIn Recruiter sits 12 points above JobAdder under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 45 — with LinkedIn Recruiter filed under Sourcing and JobAdder under ATS-integrated. LinkedIn Recruiter is ahead of JobAdder on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Data Governance Disclosure at JobAdder 56 to LinkedIn Recruiter 62. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (JobAdder 50, LinkedIn Recruiter 67, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 30% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
JobAdder
JobAdder is a Sydney-based ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and in-house teams whose Adder Intelligence layer, launched in November 2025 on LLMs hosted in Amazon Bedrock, gives every applicant an AI summary and relevancy rating and also drafts client-ready candidate overviews (Smart Floats), suggests skill codes, proposes record updates and writes job ads, alongside database skill matching.
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
JobAdder is filed under ATS-integrated AI, LinkedIn Recruiter 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.
| Record | JobAdder | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2007 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
JobAdder 50 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
3.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
JobAdder 35 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
2.7 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
JobAdder 54 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
1.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
JobAdder 30 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
JobAdder 56 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
0.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
JobAdder 43 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
0.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
JobAdder 58 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
0.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -11.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is JobAdder minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | JobAdder | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 67 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 62 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 66 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 50 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 68 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 57 (F) | -12 | -11.3 |
§ 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 | JobAdder | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
JobAdder 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 JobAdder and 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 JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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