§ The result
3 points separate LinkedIn Recruiter and Plum.
LinkedIn Recruiter holds a 3-point edge over Plum under rubric v1.0, 57 to 54, across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of LinkedIn Recruiter: LinkedIn Recruiter is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Plum on Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to Plum — LinkedIn Recruiter 50, Plum 83, on an 18% weight — which is 100% of the weighted advantage Plum holds across the 1 criterion 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
Plum
Plum is a pre-employment talent assessment platform that uses a Five-Factor (Big Five) psychometric Discovery Survey and a Talent Match model to score and rank candidates on behavioral "durable skills" for role fit, hiring, and development.
§ The record
LinkedIn Recruiter is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Plum under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Plum is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | Plum |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2002 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Plum 83
5.9 weighted points to Plum
20% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · Plum 58
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · Plum 52
1.7 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Plum 36
1.7 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · Plum 28
1.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · Plum 54
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · Plum 63
0.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +2.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +2.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus Plum.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | Plum | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 58 | +9 | +1.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 83 | -33 | -5.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 28 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 54 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 52 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 36 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 63 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 54 (F) | +3 | +2.3 |
§ 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 | LinkedIn Recruiter | Plum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 4 | Audit reportSources 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; Plum has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 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 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 19 for Plum, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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