§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Korn Ferry on all 7 criteria.
Workday Recruiting AI sits 10 points above Korn Ferry under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 46 — with Workday Recruiting AI filed under ATS-integrated and Korn Ferry under Assessment. Workday Recruiting AI is ahead of Korn Ferry on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Post-Market Monitoring at Korn Ferry 33 to Workday Recruiting AI 35. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Human Oversight Design (Korn Ferry 52, Workday Recruiting AI 65) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Korn Ferry 58, Workday Recruiting AI 70), the second being 26% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry provides psychometric talent assessments (Korn Ferry Assess, the KF4D Four Dimensional assessment, KFALP leadership-potential assessment, and the Leadership Architect competency framework) used to evaluate candidates' personality, competencies, drivers, and cognitive ability for selection, promotion, and development decisions.
Vendor profile
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
Korn Ferry is filed under Assessment AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Korn Ferry is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Korn Ferry | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1969 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Korn Ferry 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
2.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Korn Ferry 48 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
2.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Korn Ferry 52 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Korn Ferry 25 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.5 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Korn Ferry 52 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Korn Ferry 52 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Korn Ferry 33 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -9.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Korn Ferry minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Korn Ferry | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 70 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 60 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 65 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 35 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 65 | -13 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 56 (F) | -10 | -9.4 |
§ 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 | Korn Ferry | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Korn Ferry has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 28 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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