§ The result
4 points separate LinkedIn Recruiter and Spark Hire.
LinkedIn Recruiter holds a 4-point edge over Spark Hire under rubric v1.0, 57 to 53, across the Sourcing and Video interview cohorts. LinkedIn Recruiter leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Spark Hire leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to Spark Hire — LinkedIn Recruiter 50, Spark Hire 62, on an 18% weight — which is 100% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire 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
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
LinkedIn Recruiter is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Spark Hire under Video interview 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 Spark Hire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2002 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Spark Hire 62
2.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · Spark Hire 58
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Spark Hire 38
1.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · Spark Hire 30
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · Spark Hire 62
0.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · Spark Hire 64
0.3 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · Spark Hire 60
0.3 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +3.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 58 | +9 | +1.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 62 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 38 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 64 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 53 (F) | +4 | +3.4 |
§ 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 | LinkedIn Recruiter | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 4 | 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; Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LinkedIn Recruiter and Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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