§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Saville Assessment by 9 points.
LinkedIn Recruiter scores 57 and Saville Assessment 48 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. LinkedIn Recruiter leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Saville Assessment leads 1, including FRIA Support. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (LinkedIn Recruiter 67, Saville Assessment 50, 20% weight), is only 37% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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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.
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Saville Assessment
Saville Assessment publishes the Wave personality questionnaires, Swift aptitude tests and situational judgment tests. They are scored automatically against norm groups and delivered through the Oasys platform, the Wave Connect hiring platform (which uses AI to build role profiles from job descriptions) and a two-minute Screener that returns a fit band into the employer's ATS.
§ The record
LinkedIn Recruiter is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Saville Assessment 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 Saville Assessment is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | Saville Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2002 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · Saville Assessment 50
3.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Saville Assessment 42
1.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Saville Assessment 38
1.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · Saville Assessment 55
1.3 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · Saville Assessment 55
1.1 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · Saville Assessment 60
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · Saville Assessment 40
0.3 weighted points to Saville Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +9.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +9.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus Saville Assessment.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | Saville Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 50 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 55 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 38 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 60 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 48 (F) | +9 | +9.0 |
§ 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 | Saville Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 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 | 34 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Saville Assessment has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LinkedIn Recruiter and Saville Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 79 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 40 for Saville Assessment, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Saville Assessment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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