§ The result
1 point separates LinkedIn Recruiter and Workday Recruiting AI.
LinkedIn Recruiter (Sourcing) edges Workday Recruiting AI (ATS-integrated) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 57 to 56. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of LinkedIn Recruiter: LinkedIn Recruiter is ahead on Post-Market Monitoring and Workday Recruiting AI on Bias Audit Transparency. Workday Recruiting AI takes the heaviest weighted swing, Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (LinkedIn Recruiter 50, Workday Recruiting AI 60), 75% of the weighted advantage it builds, while the widest raw gap is on Post-Market Monitoring, LinkedIn Recruiter 50 to Workday Recruiting AI 35.
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
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
LinkedIn Recruiter is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only LinkedIn Recruiter is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2002 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
1.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
1.1 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
20% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
0.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.1 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +1.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 70 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 65 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 65 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 56 (F) | +1 | +1.3 |
§ 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 | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 0 | 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 | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 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 | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 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 | 9 | 2 | 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; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 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 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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