§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Versant by Pearson on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, LinkedIn Recruiter, filed under Sourcing, finishes on 57 and Versant by Pearson, filed under Assessment, on 49, 8 points apart. LinkedIn Recruiter takes all 7 criteria from Versant by Pearson without a 20-point raw gap on any of them; the closest is Article 11 Technical Documentation, LinkedIn Recruiter 67 to Versant by Pearson 63. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Human Oversight Design (LinkedIn Recruiter 66, Versant by Pearson 56) and Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (LinkedIn Recruiter 50, Versant by Pearson 42), the second being 19% 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.
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Versant by Pearson
Versant by Pearson is a suite of AI-scored English proficiency tests (plus spoken Spanish, French, Arabic and Dutch) that automatically score candidates' spoken and written responses on Pearson's Global Scale of English within minutes, used by employers such as contact centres and BPOs to screen applicants and benchmark staff through the ScoreKeeper dashboard.
§ The record
LinkedIn Recruiter is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Versant by Pearson 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 Versant by Pearson is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2002 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 19% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Versant by Pearson 42
1.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.3 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 54% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · Versant by Pearson 30
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · Versant by Pearson 56
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Versant by Pearson 43
0.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
20% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · Versant by Pearson 63
0.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +7.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +7.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 63 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 53 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 56 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 43 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 61 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 49 (F) | +8 | +7.4 |
§ 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 | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources 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 | 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 | 5 | 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 | 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 | 23 | 6 | 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; Versant by Pearson has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LinkedIn Recruiter and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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