Categories 2010

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1. Recruitment Personality of the Year

Nominated by our readers, this Award will be presented to the recruiter (external, internal, recruitment outsourcing, recruitment advertising, job board, etc) who has made the most significant impact on the industry in 2009.

Nominations into this category are submitted free of charge. Please click here to download the Category Entry Form and then upload the completed form on the ‘Submit an Entry’ page.

Achievements outlined in entries into this category should have occurred between October 2008 and October 2009.

Internal Recruitment Awards

2. Best Candidate Experience

Awarded to an employer’s internal recruitment team to recognise outstanding service and care for candidates, ensuring that each is treated with professionalism throughout the recruitment process and aiming to provide a uniquely positive experience to all. The winning entry will provide evidence of a successful candidate experience programme.

Please click here to download the Category Entry Form.
3. Best Diversity Recruitment Strategy

Awarded to an outstanding example of an organisation’s achievement in successfully diversifying its workforce by targeting, recruiting and retaining employees at all levels to reflect the full composition of UK society: by age, disability, ethnic/national origin, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation. The winning entry will explain the composition of the organisation before the strategy was implemented, development and execution of the strategy, the specific recruitment targets, how the full organisation embraced the programme, and outline retention of those recruits 12 months later.

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4. Best Recruitment Team

Awarded to an employer’s internal recruitment team to recognise their collective achievement of organisation recruitment goals, development and/or refinement of recruitment strategy, innovation, effective campaigns, working closely with all stakeholders (corporate, line managers, candidates, etc) and impact on their organisation. The winning entry will show quantifiable evidence of the above.

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5. Innovation in Recruitment

Awarded to recognise ‘thinking outside the box’ that contributed to the success of a recruitment programme. The winning entry may demonstrate innovation in strategy, new internal processes, marketing, use of resources, working with other departments, or any other area in which something new and different made a difference in an internal recruitment team’s activity.

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6. Most Effective Employer Brand Development

Awarded to recognise outstanding implementation of aligning and progressing organisational values/reputation to recruitment strategy. The winning entry will demonstrate success in creating or taking the employer brand to a new level through its recruitment programme.

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7. Most Effective Recruitment Strategy

Recognising success and efficiency.
Awarded to an outstanding example of how an internal recruitment team has succeeded in achieving a recruitment goal through reaching specific targets in a highly efficient way. The winning entry will explain in clear language how the strategy was developed and its implementation, along with the strategy’s targets and how they were achieved.

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8. Most Effective Use of Technology/Online

Awarded to an organisation that demonstrates outstanding innovation, cost savings and positive employer brand impact through creative application of new technology or online service/web site. The winning entry will provide evidence of how the effective use of the technology/online service has benefited the recruitment programme.

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Achievements outlined in the above entries should have occurred between April 2008 and October 2009.

External Recruiter Awards

9. Agency of the Year

Awarded to a recruitment, interims or executive search agency operating in any sector achieving the most stand-out business accomplishment, or series of accomplishments, of the year. The winning entry will provide evidence of financial stability and profitability and of having significantly enhanced the recruitment industry’s reputation in the UK business world.

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Please click here to download the Testimonal / Referee Form.
10. Best Recruitment Agency to Work For

Awarded to a recruitment, interims or executive search agency operating in any sector that can provide evidence that it provides the most effective work environment, incentives, benefits, training, internal communications and ‘best practice’-orientated management. Along with providing evidence of financial stability and profitability, the winning entry must demonstrate workforce diversity and the availability of career development opportunity for all. A set of clearly defined organisational values will also be evident in the winning entry.

Please click here to download the Category Entry Form.

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11. Best Candidate Care

Awarded to a recruitment, interims or executive search agency operating in any sector, which provides exceptional service to candidates. The winning agency will provide evidence of financial stability and profitability, exceptional insight into the sector(s) it which is operates and into its candidates and their needs as they look for work. Not only must the agency must demonstrate that it provides candidates with outstanding basic care such as interviewing each candidate and ensuring they are put forward only for appropriate roles - the agency must show that they add outstanding value to their work with candidates and how they contribute to their candidates’ career success.

Please click here to download the Category Entry Form.

Please click here to download the Testimonal / Referee Form.
12. Best Client Service

Awarded to a recruitment, interims or executive search agency operating in any sector which provides exceptional service to clients. The winning agency will provide evidence of financial stability and profitability, exceptional insight into the sector(s) in which it operates and into its clients, their cultures, current and strategic goals, staffing requirements and how the clients fit into the marketplace. The agency must demonstrate how they add outstanding value to their partnerships with clients.

Please click here to download the Category Entry Form.

Please click here to download the Testimonal / Referee Form.
13. Best Commercial Recruitment Agency

Awarded to a recruitment agency operating in office support, customer service, call centres, hospitality, retail, sales, or travel which provides outstanding service to clients and candidates. The winning agency will provide evidence of financial stability and profitability, exceptional insight into its sectors, business innovation, outstanding service to clients and candidates as well as practising ‘best practice’ as an employer.

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Please click here to download the Testimonal / Referee Form.
14. Best Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

Awarded to a recruitment, interims or executive search agency operating in any sector for the most effective CSR strategy. The winning firm must provide evidence that its strategy to ‘give back’ to community, environment or specific group offers tangible benefit to the intended beneficiary(ies), clearly aligns with the day-to-day business and enhances the perception of recruitment in the wider community.

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15. Best Executive Search Agency

Awarded to an agency providing outstanding client and candidate service in C-level recruitment and placement, i.e. headhunting. The winning firm will provide evidence of financial stability and profitability, exceptional insight into the sectors, organisations and talent pools available, business innovation, outstanding service to clients and candidates, as well as practising ‘best practice’ as an employer.

Please click here to download the Category Entry Form.

Please click here to download the Testimonal / Referee Form.
16. Best Industrial Recruitment Agency

Awarded to a recruitment agency operating in construction, drivers, food processing, logistics, manufacturing, warehouse which provides outstanding service to clients and candidates. The winning agency will provide evidence of financial stability and profitability, exceptional insight into its sectors, business innovation, outstanding service to clients and candidates as well as practising ‘best practice’ as an employer.

Please click here to download the Category Entry Form.

Please click here to download the Testimonal / Referee Form.
17. Best Interim Recruitment Agency

Awarded to an agency providing outstanding client and candidate service in the recruitment/placement of interim managers/executives. The winning agency will provide evidence of financial stability and profitability, exceptional insight into the sectors and organisations in which it places interims, business innovation, outstanding service to clients and candidates, as well as practising ‘best practice’ as an employer.

Please click here to download the Category Entry Form.

Please click here to download the Testimonal / Referee Form.
18. Best International Recruitment Agency

Awarded to an agency with a UK head office which operates physical offices and bases staff in a minimum of three countries outside the UK and Ireland, providing outstanding services to clients and candidates abroad. The winning agency will provide evidence of financial stability and profitability, exceptional knowledge of and insight into the localities outside/inside the UK where it operates and the sectors in which it operates, business innovation, outstanding service to clients and candidates, as well as practising ‘best practice’ as an employer.

Please click here to download the Category Entry Form .

Please click here to download the Testimonal / Referee Form.
19. Best Newcomer Agency

Awarded to a recruitment, interims or executive search agency operating in any sector that started trading no earlier than 1 January 2007. The winning firm must demonstrate financial stability, business innovation, a clearly defined business plan and significant insight into the sector(s) in which it operates. The winning firm must also demonstrate outstanding service to client and candidate. (Note: this cannot be a new agency created by a pre-pack administration, or ‘phoenix’, deal.) Achievements outlined in the entries should have occurred between January 2007 and October 2009.

Please click here to download the Category Entry Form.

Please click here to download the Testimonal / Referee Form.
20. Best Professional Services Recruitment Agency

Awarded to a recruitment agency operating in accountancy, banking & financial services, creative, human resources, legal, marketing, or PR which provides outstanding service to clients and candidates. The winning agency will provide evidence of financial stability and profitability, exceptional insight into its sectors, business innovation, outstanding service to clients and candidates as well as practising ‘best practice’ as an employer.

Please click here to download the Category Entry Form.

Please click here to download the Testimonal / Referee Form.
21. Best Public Sector Recruitment Agency

Awarded to a recruitment agency operating in public sector, education, healthcare/medical, housing, social care, voluntary and charitable organisations which provides outstanding services to clients and candidates. The winning agency will provide evidence of financial stability and profitability, business innovation, exceptional insight into its sectors, outstanding service to clients and candidates as well as practising ‘best practice’ as an employer.

Please click here to download the Category Entry Form.

Please click here to download the Testimonal / Referee Form.
22. Best Technical Recruitment Agency

Awarded to a recruitment agency operating in sectors such as aerospace, architecture, energy and power, (‘green’, oil & gas, nuclear, etc) engineering, environmental services, IT, pharmaceutical & biotechnology, science, and/or railways which provides outstanding service to clients and candidates. The winning agency will provide evidence of financial stability and profitability, exceptional insight into its sectors, business innovation, outstanding service to clients and candidates as well as practising ‘best practice’ as an employer.

Please click here to download the Category Entry Form.

Please click here to download the Testimonal / Referee Form.

*All agencies that enter will have to verify that their companies have been in business under their current names precisely and have not been involved in insolvency proceedings (for instance pre-package arrangements) within the last two years. Further, agencies must verify that they have not had any licences removed (e.g. Gang Master Licensing Authority), been convicted in courts of law/tribunals for malpractice or poor treatment of employees, or been subjected to penalties/disciplinary action by a government organisation or a trade body for practices related to agency operation, between October 2008 – October 2009.

The judging will aim to recognise agencies who add outstanding value to their business partnerships and relationships, and not those who simply provide a solid professional service. They will also be looking for innovation and profitability.

The judging of Best Recruitment Agency to Work For will aim to recognise agencies who offer outstanding value as employers and not those who simply provide a professional employment environment.

Achievements outlined in the above entries should have occurred between October 2008 and October 2009, except in the Best Newcomer Agency category (see category specific details for effective dates).

Recruitment Outsourcing Awards

23. Best Embedded Recruiting Team

Awarded to an on-site, embedded recruitment team employed by an outsourced recruitment organisation for achieving outstanding success in its work with a client. The winning entry will provide evidence of its effectiveness in reaching and/or exceeding client goals, offering innovation, and integrating its operations with the client’s to the desired level. The entry should outline, along with the team’s overall achievements, the role played by each member of the team and each individual’s contributions.

Please click here to download the Category Entry Form.
24. Outstanding Outsourced Recruitment Organisation

Awarded to an outsourced recruitment organisation for achieving outstanding success for its client(s) in conceiving, developing and implementing a cohesive recruitment/talent management strategy or strategies. The winning entry will demonstrate its own financial stability and profitability as well as business innovation, enhancing the client(s)’s employer brand, and playing a significant role in helping the client(s) reach and exceed its goals. It will also provide evidence of significant value-add to the partnership.

Please click here to download the Category Entry Form .

Please click here to download the Testimonal / Referee Form .

The judging will aim to recognise organisations who add outstanding value to their business partnerships and relationships, and not those who simply provide a solid professional service. They will also be looking for innovation and profitability.

Achievements outlined in the entries should have occurred between April 2008 and October 2009.

Recruitment Advertising Award

25. Best Recruitment Campaign

Awarded to the most creative and successful campaign created, developed and implemented by a recruitment advertising or employment agency on behalf of an employer. The winning entry will provide evidence of how the campaign succeeded in helping an employer to reach a specific recruitment goal.

Please click here to download the Category Entry Form .

Achievements outlined in the entries should have occurred between April 2008 and October 2009.

Online Awards

26. Best Job Board

Awarded to the job board that most effectively serves candidates and clients. The winning entry must provide evidence of financial stability and profitability and demonstrate business/technical innovation, outstanding customer service to both clients and candidates, effective site ‘stickiness’, and accessibility and clarity for users. The winning entry also must demonstrate significant value-add for its users.

Please click here to download the Category Entry Form .

Please click here to download the Testimonial / Referee Form .
27. Best Social Networking Site for Recruitment

Awarded to the online social networking site that delivers the most effective recruitment tools for external and internal recruiters. This category cannot be entered – please vote for your winner via the ‘Submit an Entry’ page.

Votes for this category are submitted free of charge.

Achievements outlined in the entries should have occurred between October 2008 and October 2009.