This award recognises excellence in the design, implementation and utilisation of robust, relevant and best practice assessment and methodologies within an employer. As the wealth of resources, understanding and innovation applied to assessment strategies grows each year, this category marks out those organisations who have gone the extra mile in crafting a selection strategy matching their business' needs.

This category recognises the most creative, successful and friendly candidate experience. The Judges will accept self-nominations for this category. 

 This category is open to all recruitment teams and other partnering departments in the same organisation, if applicable. Entries are welcomed from Recruitment Media or Marketing organisations on behalf of their customers. This category recognises the most effective, engaging and candidate-friendly Careers Website and its impact on Recruiting function as well as the Candidate Experience and Employer Brand. The Judges will accept self-nominations for this category. 

This category is open to all recruitment teams and other partnering departments in the same organisation, if applicable. This category recognises the most successful and effective development of an Employer Brand (EB) and its impact on the Recruiting function and recruitment lifecycle. The Judges will accept self-nominations for this category.

This category recognises exceptional creativity and innovation in development and delivery of an effective Diversity & Inclusion Recruitment strategy. The Judges will accept self-nominations for this category.

This category recognises exceptional creativity and innovation in development and delivery of an effective Graduate, Intern, Apprentice and School Leaver Recruitment and development programme. Testimonies from those on the programme, as well as from customers of the programme will be required. The Judges will accept self-nominations for this category. 

This category recognises exceptional creativity and innovation in development and delivery of an effective Employee Referral Programme (ERP).  The Judges will accept self-nominations for this category. 

Integrated marketing campaigns are often critical to the hiring success of recruitment teams. This category recognises initiatives focusing on holistic multi-channel marketing to achieve attraction and ultimately hiring objectives. Self-nomination is permitted for this category. 

Properly managing effective internal mobility is often not given as much investment and focus as a company's external recruiting efforts. This category recognises excellence in promoting internal mobility and career development through a well-crafted and implemented internal mobility strategy. Self-nomination is permitted for this category. 

This category recognises excellence achieved in the approach to hiring leadership talent and may include internal talent development initiatives, the creation and embedding of a new service or in-sourcing initiative, or a specific campaign (i.e. a specific project to drive diversity in the leadership pipeline) This category is open to in-house recruitment functions or fully onsite RPO teams. Self-nominations are permitted.

This category recognises and acknowledges outstanding development and delivery of an effective pre-boarding and on-boarding strategy for all new hires. The Judges will accept self-nominations for this category. 

Increasingly, recruitment technology and advances in diverse fields such as augmented reality, machine learning, recruitment automation and integration are becoming key value enablers for recruitment functions. This category recognises excellence in harnessing recruitment technology for exceptional impact to hiring outcomes. This category is open to all recruitment teams and other partnering departments in the same organisation, if applicable. Entries are welcomed from Recruitment vendors/suppliers on behalf of a specific customer. The Judges will accept self-nominations for this category.

As functions mature, suppliers often form a crucial and integral part of the organisation's success in talent acquisition, either as an ongoing or outsourcing component to the department, or engaging for a specific project or major initiative. This category seeks to recognise suppliers and employers who have achieved the bench mark in supplier engagement, management and utilisation. Nominations accepted from both Employers and Suppliers.

This category is open to all recruitment teams and other partnering departments in the same organisation, if applicable. Entries are welcomed from Recruitment Media or Marketing organisations on behalf of their customers. This category recognises the most effective and engaging recruitment video or use of video within a recruitment campaign, and its impact on Employer Brand and candidate attraction. The Judges will accept self-nominations for this category.

This category recognises excellence in emerging talent (graduate, intern, apprentice and post-grad) recruitment by a dedicated specialist team. Emerging talent recruitment is unique in its cyclical, seasonal and programmatic nature, and this award acknowledges the work dedicated teams undertake in creating and hiring into early career roles in their organisation. Self nominations are permitted from dedicated in-house teams or fully onsite RPO teams.

Self-nominations will be accepted for this category, from an individual's manager, HRD, team members, or an internal customer(s). This category recognises outstanding achievement of an individual Recruiter. 

This category recognises exceptional and outstanding innovation in any aspect of the recruitment life-cycle within a single organisation or team. Entries will be accepted from a recruiting team, a project team or from an individual. The Judges will accept self-nominations for this category.

Nominations are welcome from entire recruiting departments or geographically/functionally aligned teams, showing innovation and commitment to delivering a quality service to the company. The Judges will accept self-nominations for this category.

This category recognises the most effective positive impact a team or Recruitment Manager has had to the delivery of the recruitment service to internal customers and candidates alike. This award can be entered for by a team, part of a team or an individual. The Judges will accept self-nominations, as well as nominations from an individual's manager, an HRD, colleagues or an internal customer.

A new award in 2019, we are now recognising the work recruitment functions do to achieve results through the quality and management of their processes. Do you truly operate a data-driven function (not just produce a pretty monthly report), have you transformed your time or cost of hire through efficiency measures, or have you harnessed your technology to automate the things other companies still do manually? You don't have to have a team of champions, the most inspiring leaders, or a meaty transformation agenda to be doing excellent business-as-usual work. If the answer is yes to any of the above, this award is probably for you.

This category is open to those holding a functional leadership position within any size of organisation. Those nominated may be Heads of Recruitment, Directors of Recruitment or hold similar positions and who have shown outstanding skills and capabilities in leading their project, team or function. It is likely they will be a manager of managers. A  Recruitment Manager category is available for team managers or smaller functional managers who supervise individual contributors.

Self-nominations will not be accepted. Nominations will only be accepted from the individual's manager, an HRD, their team or an internal customer(s).

This category is open to those holding a team management position within any size of organisation. Those nominated may be Team Leaders, supervisors, managers, or hold similar positions and who have shown outstanding skills and capabilities in leading their team or project. It is likely they will be a manager of individual contributors, or a manager of managers in a larger organisation, but still report to a TA/recruitment Head/Director.

Self-nominations will not be accepted. Nominations will only be accepted from the individual's manager, an HRD, their team or an internal customer(s).

Nominations are welcome from whole RPO client teams or geographically/functionally aligned RPO teams, showing innovation and commitment to delivering a quality service to their client. Nominations will only be accepted for teams working for a specific employer. Central sourcing teams, RPOs as a general businesses or multi-client teams are not being considered. The Judges will accept self-nominations for this category.  

Nominations are welcome from entire recruiting departments or geographically/functionally aligned teams, showing innovation and commitment to delivering a quality service to the company. The Judges will accept self-nominations for this category.

Talent Acquisition is never usually a wholly internal affair, and high performing companies across the world rely on the technology, expertise, creativity and solutions available from a host of vendors and suppliers. It is the innovation of these suppliers which more often than not kicks our profession into new phases of our evolution, and in pace with the changing shape of workplaces and job seekers. This award recognises innovations from the recruitment vendor landscape, without which our pace of change would certainly be slower.