Every great team started with a great hire.
Behind every new job is someone who found the candidate, made the case, handled the offer and saw it through. Done well, it changes a career and a company, and the recruiter moves straight on to the next one.
The Recruitment & HR Awards exist to recognise the recruiters, agencies and talent teams who hire with skill and integrity, and who treat every candidate with respect.
Early calls.
Late offers.
Finally, recognised.
Recruitment changes lives. It rarely gets the credit.
A recruiter who found a candidate everyone else had overlooked.
An agency that kept its clients staffed through the hardest year they had known.
An in house team that halved the time it took to hire.
A new starter who made their first placement in their second week.
A search firm that built the most diverse shortlist its client had ever seen.
Recruiters spend every day making the case for someone else.
This time the case is for them.
“We saw the work.”
“Thank you.”
From the first call to the first day.
Recruiters, resourcers, leaders, agencies of every size, search firms, staffing providers and in house talent teams.
The Recruiter
Whose placements last.
The Recruitment Leader
Building a business people want to join.
The Rising Star
Early in a career and already outstanding.
The Talent Team
Hiring the people the business runs on.
The Agency
The partner clients would not want to lose.
Know a recruiter who deserves to be seen?
Four ways to be recognised.
Recruitment People
Recruiters, leaders, rising stars, executive search consultants, talent acquisition professionals and resourcers.
Agencies and Teams
Agencies, independents, new businesses, search firms, in house teams, staffing and RPO providers.
Recruitment by Sector
Technology, healthcare, professional services, and industrial and engineering recruitment.
Candidates, Innovation and People
Candidate experience, technology, employer brand, inclusion, employers and training.
Recognition that keeps working for you.
Client confidence
Independent proof when you pitch for new business.
Candidate trust
A reason for the best candidates to choose you.
A team moment
Something the whole desk can be proud of.
Connections
Meet recruitment leaders and talent teams from across the UK.
You do not need the biggest billings.
Judges consider the size of the business and the market you recruit in, so a small agency can win against a national one.
Client and candidate names are never needed: describe placements in anonymised terms.
Figures can be given as percentages or ranges.
How you treat people matters as much as how many you place.
The question isn't:
“Are our numbers big enough?”
A better question might be:
“Are our placements good enough?”
Recognition only counts when it is earned fairly.
The value of an award depends on the integrity behind it, so the way entries are judged should be clear before anyone enters.
Free to enter
Nominating and entering cost nothing. No category depends on buying a ticket, a table or a package.
Independent judging
Entries are scored by an independent panel, not by the organisers, working under a confidentiality agreement.
Read moreConflicts managed
Judges declare any conflict of interest and stand aside from the entries it touches.
Read moreSponsors support the awards. They never decide the results.
The best recruiters rarely put themselves forward.
They say:
“It is just part of the job.”
“The candidate did the hard work.”
“The whole team did it.”
And sometimes that is exactly why somebody else needs to say:
“They made it happen.”
“They deserve to be recognised.”
If you work with a recruiter, agency or talent team like that, put their name forward. It takes a minute.
From a name to the night itself.
Discover
Find the award category that fits the achievement best.
Nominate
Put forward a recruiter, a team, an agency or your own business.
Tell the story
Share what was achieved, and the difference it made.
Judging
Eligible entries are judged against the published criteria.
Recognition
Finalists and winners are celebrated at the awards.
Recruitment is how teams are built.
Every placement has a story.
Every desk has a moment.