§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Zoho Recruit by 14 points.
Workday Recruiting AI sits 14 points above Zoho Recruit under rubric v1.0, 56 against 42, with both filed under ATS-integrated. Workday Recruiting AI leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Zoho Recruit leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Workday Recruiting AI 60, Zoho Recruit 24 — and at an 18% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
Vendor profile
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
§ The record
Workday Recruiting AI and Zoho Recruit are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Zoho Recruit is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Workday Recruiting AI | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2005 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Workday Recruiting AI 60 · Zoho Recruit 24
6.5 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Workday Recruiting AI 70 · Zoho Recruit 45
5.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Workday Recruiting AI 65 · Zoho Recruit 50
1.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Workday Recruiting AI 35 · Zoho Recruit 30
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Workday Recruiting AI 35 · Zoho Recruit 40
0.6 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Workday Recruiting AI 65 · Zoho Recruit 60
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +13.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Workday Recruiting AI minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Workday Recruiting AI | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 45 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 24 | +36 | +6.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 65 | 50 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 65 | 60 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 42 (F) | +14 | +13.8 |
§ 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 | Workday Recruiting AI | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 28 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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