§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
LinkedIn Recruiter (Sourcing) and Mercor (Screening) are 34 points apart under rubric v1.0, 57 for LinkedIn Recruiter against 23 for Mercor. Mercor leads none of the 7 criteria, and LinkedIn Recruiter is ahead on 6 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (LinkedIn Recruiter 67, Mercor 22, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 27% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Mercor
Mercor is an AI talent platform that runs automated 20-minute AI video interviews and semantic resume/profile matching to vet, score, and place candidates and expert contractors, and offers an enterprise applicant-screening product that scores employers' applicant pools against role rubrics with pass/fail recommendations.
§ The record
LinkedIn Recruiter is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercor is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2002 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · Mercor 22
9.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Mercor 10
7.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · Mercor 22
6.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Mercor 20
3.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · Mercor 42
2.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · Mercor 20
2.7 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · Mercor 40
2.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +33.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 33.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +34 beside that +33.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 22 | +45 | +9.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 10 | +40 | +7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 20 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 22 | +40 | +6.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 42 | +24 | +2.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 20 | +30 | +3.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 40 | +28 | +2.2 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 23 (F) | +34 | +33.6 |
§ 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 | LinkedIn Recruiter | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 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 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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