§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads SHL by 5 points.
Workday Recruiting AI scores 56 and SHL 51 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Workday Recruiting AI leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while SHL leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (SHL 60, Workday Recruiting AI 70, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 35% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
SHL
SHL is a global talent-assessment provider offering AI-scored cognitive ability, personality, behavioral, situational-judgement, coding, and video-interview assessments that score, rank, and recommend candidates for hiring and development decisions.
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
SHL is filed under Assessment AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only SHL is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | SHL | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 1977 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SHL 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
2.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SHL 50 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
1.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SHL 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SHL 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SHL 40 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.6 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SHL 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.4 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SHL 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -4.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SHL minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | SHL | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 70 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 65 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 65 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 56 (F) | -5 | -4.7 |
§ 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 | SHL | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
SHL has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 30 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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