HiredScore
HireAIScore rates HiredScore 52 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric v1.0, last reviewed May 21, 2026. HiredScore ranks 22 of 86 vendors rated in Candidate sourcing AI, against a category average of 46. That score is drawn from 9 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for HiredScore — 7 with a cited source, 2 recording that nothing was located.
Score breakdown
HiredScore, criterion by criterion
Each rubric criterion is scored out of 100 on the cited evidence, then weighted into the total.
Weighted contribution shown to the right of each bar.
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Weight 20% · category avg 48
65
+13.0
Bias Audit Transparency
Weight 18% · category avg 40
55
+9.9
FRIA Support
Weight 15% · category avg 31
30
+4.5
Data Governance Disclosure
Weight 15% · category avg 53
55
+8.3
Human Oversight Design
Weight 12% · category avg 56
60
+7.2
Post-Market Monitoring
Weight 12% · category avg 40
35
+4.2
Customer Documentation
Weight 8% · category avg 57
60
+4.8
Total weighted score
51.8(rounded to 52 for display)
Category avg is the mean raw score on that criterion across the 86 Candidate sourcing AI vendors in scope of this rubric, this one included.
Strongest criterion
Article 11 Technical Documentation
65raw / 100
Contributes 13.0 to the total. 65 against a 48 category average.
Weakest criterion
FRIA Support
30raw / 100
Contributes 4.5 to the total. 30 against a 31 category average.
Cited evidence
The evidence behind the score
Every score is backed by at least one cited piece of evidence. Open a criterion to see what was found, when, and where.
Download diligence recordEvidence ledger
- Items
- 9
- Documentation
- 6
- Audit report
- 1
- Absence
- 2
- With a source URL
- 7 of 9
- Source hostnames
- 1
- Fewest items
- 1
- Bias Audit Transparency
These figures measure how thoroughly HiredScore was reviewed, not how HiredScore performed — an absence row, recording that nothing was located, is counted like any other item.
Article 11 Technical Documentation
3 items65
- DocumentationCaptured May 21, 2026
Responsible AI at HiredScore datasheet (PDF, December 2024).
https://www.workday.com/content/dam/web/en-us/documents/datasheets/responsible-ai-at-hiredscore.pdf
- DocumentationCaptured May 21, 2026
HiredScore AI for Recruiting datasheet.
https://www.workday.com/content/dam/web/en-us/documents/datasheets/hiredscore-ai-recruiting.pdf
- DocumentationCaptured May 21, 2026
HiredScore AI for Talent Mobility datasheet.
Bias Audit Transparency
1 item55
- Audit reportCaptured May 21, 2026
Secretariat NYC LL 144-style audit of HiredScore Spotlight, completed March 2026; data window Sep 2025–Feb 2026; conclusion of no disparate impact disputed in Mobley v. Workday.
https://www.workday.com/en-us/legal/responsible-ai-and-bias-mitigation.html
FRIA Support
1 item30
- AbsenceCaptured May 21, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-05-21.
Where we looked: No FRIA template located, https://www.workday.com/en-us/legal/responsible-ai-and-bias-mitigation.html - no deployer FRIA materials.
Data Governance Disclosure
1 item55
- DocumentationCaptured May 21, 2026
Design choices documented: excludes university name, hobbies/extracurriculars, exact addresses (uses bucketed commute distances); learning-set balancing described.
https://www.workday.com/content/dam/web/en-us/documents/datasheets/responsible-ai-at-hiredscore.pdf
Human Oversight Design
1 item60
- DocumentationCaptured May 21, 2026
Spotlight outputs A/B/C/D letter grades; recruiter performs final decision; per-candidate explainability provided in product.
https://www.workday.com/content/dam/web/en-us/documents/datasheets/responsible-ai-at-hiredscore.pdf
Post-Market Monitoring
1 item35
- AbsenceCaptured May 21, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-05-21.
Where we looked: https://www.workday.com/en-us/legal/responsible-ai-and-bias-mitigation.html - no vendor-specific incident channel beyond general Workday surfaces.
Customer Documentation
1 item60
- DocumentationCaptured May 21, 2026
Public product page for HiredScore-based AI Recruiting.
https://www.workday.com/en-us/products/talent-management/ai-recruiting.html
Editorial notes
Company overview
HiredScore is an AI-driven talent-orchestration layer that sits on top of an existing ATS. Its core function is ranking incoming applicants and routing them through configurable workflows. Workday acquired HiredScore in 2024; the product continues to be sold and developed, and is also being integrated into Workday Recruiting AI features.
Regulatory exposure
Candidate ranking is squarely inside EU AI Act Annex III §4 - high-risk. NYC LL 144 applies whenever HiredScore's ranking decisions affect NYC candidates. Because HiredScore is now part of Workday, customers should also pay attention to how Workday's responsible-AI documentation maps onto the HiredScore product surface - disclosures that apply to "Workday" do not automatically apply to HiredScore.
Path to a higher score
To move into the B band on this rubric, HiredScore would need to publish
(a) a current NYC LL 144 bias audit for the ranking and routing flows,
(b) a model card for the ranking model with subgroup performance metrics,
and (c) clear delineation of which Workday-level responsible-AI documents
apply to the HiredScore product specifically.
Regulatory frame
What applies to candidate sourcing AI.
Ranking outputs are inside Annex III §4 when they influence hiring decisions. GDPR Article 22 (automated decision-making) and the GDPR rights around profiling apply independently for EU candidates.
Compare
HiredScore against its nearest-scoring peers.
The closest scores in Candidate sourcing AI, side by side.
- Side-by-sideHiredScore vs SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting53F
- Side-by-sideHiredScore vs Phenom52F
- Side-by-sideHiredScore vs Wellfound52F
- Side-by-sideHiredScore vs Textkernel51F
Ranking
Others rated in Candidate sourcing AI
Ranked 22 of 86 by weighted total under rubric v1.0. The ordering is arithmetic on the rubric and carries no view on which tool suits a given hiring process.
- #19SEEK54F
- #20SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting53F
- #21Phenom52F
- #22HiredScoreThis profile52F
- #23Wellfound52F
- #24Textkernel51F
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