§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Talkpush on all 7 criteria.
LinkedIn Recruiter, filed under Sourcing, comes out 11 points above Talkpush, filed under Screening: 57 against 46 under rubric v1.0. LinkedIn Recruiter takes all 7 criteria from Talkpush without a 20-point raw gap on any of them; the closest is Post-Market Monitoring, LinkedIn Recruiter 50 to Talkpush 46. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (LinkedIn Recruiter 62, Talkpush 44) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (LinkedIn Recruiter 67, Talkpush 52), the second being 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
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
§ The record
LinkedIn Recruiter is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Talkpush 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 Talkpush is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | Talkpush |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | HK |
| Founded | 2002 | 2014 |
§ 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 · Talkpush 52
3.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · Talkpush 44
2.7 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · Talkpush 27
1.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Talkpush 42
1.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · Talkpush 56
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · Talkpush 60
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Talkpush 46
0.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +11.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus Talkpush.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | Talkpush | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 52 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 27 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 44 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 56 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 46 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 60 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 46 (F) | +11 | +11.1 |
§ 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 | Talkpush | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 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 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 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 | 21 | 7 | Sources 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; Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LinkedIn Recruiter and Talkpush sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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