§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads UKG on all 7 criteria.
LinkedIn Recruiter sits 13 points above UKG under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 44 — with LinkedIn Recruiter filed under Sourcing and UKG under ATS-integrated. LinkedIn Recruiter takes all 7 criteria and UKG none of them; the nearest contest is FRIA Support, LinkedIn Recruiter 38 to UKG 35. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap (LinkedIn Recruiter 50, UKG 30) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (LinkedIn Recruiter 67, UKG 48), 29% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter builds across the 7 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
UKG
UKG is an enterprise HCM and workforce-management suite whose UKG Pro Recruiting applicant-tracking module, augmented by the embedded Bryte AI layer, drafts job descriptions and produces profile-match candidate scores to rank and shortlist applicants.
§ The record
LinkedIn Recruiter is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, UKG under ATS-integrated 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.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | UKG |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2002 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · UKG 48
3.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · UKG 30
3.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · UKG 52
1.7 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · UKG 38
1.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · UKG 55
1.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · UKG 56
0.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · UKG 35
0.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +12.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus UKG.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | UKG | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 48 | +19 | +3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 30 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 52 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 38 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 55 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 44 (F) | +13 | +12.9 |
§ 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 | UKG | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 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 | 0 | 2 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 2 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 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 | 6 | 8 | 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; UKG has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 8 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 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 14 for UKG, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- UKG last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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