§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads SHL on 6 of the 7 criteria.
LinkedIn Recruiter scores 57 and SHL 51 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. LinkedIn Recruiter leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so SHL is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 LinkedIn Recruiter leads is Data Governance Disclosure, LinkedIn Recruiter 62 to SHL 58. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap (LinkedIn Recruiter 50, SHL 40) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (LinkedIn Recruiter 67, SHL 60), 23% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
SHL
SHL is a global talent-assessment provider offering AI-scored cognitive ability, personality, behavioral, situational-judgement, coding, and video-interview assessments that score, rank, and recommend candidates for hiring and development decisions.
§ The record
LinkedIn Recruiter is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, SHL 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 SHL is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2002 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · SHL 60
1.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 43% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · SHL 30
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · SHL 40
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · SHL 58
1.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · SHL 60
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · SHL 58
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +6.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +6.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 60 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 58 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 60 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 51 (F) | +6 | +6.0 |
§ 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 | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | 0 | Sources 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 | 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; SHL 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 SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next