London’s Grosvenor House Hotel played host to the recruitment industry’s biggest awards ceremony on Thursday, 30 March.

More than 1,200 recruiters attended the 2006 Recruiter Awards. Recruiter editor DeeDee Doke said anecdotes from clients and candidates had been a “testimonial to the professionalism” of the industry.

Comedian Ed Byrne handed out the awards.

For full coverage, see the 5 April issue of Recruiter. Here’s a list of the winners:

Best Accountancy/Financial Recruitment Firm

Joslin Rowe

Best Commercial Recruitment Firm

Eutopia Solutions

Best Executive Search Firm

SevenHR

Best Industrial/Technical Recruitment Firm

Hill McGlynn

Commended: ADR Resources

Best International Recruitment Firm

NES Group

Commended: Eutopia Solutions

Best IT Recruitment Firm

MSB International

Best Legal Recruitment Firm

Badenoch & Clark

Best Media Recruitment Firm

Median Recruitment

Best Public Sector Recruitment Agency

Morgan Hunt

Commended: RIG Police Recruit

Best Recruitment-to-Recruitment Firm

YES Rec2Rec

Best Temporary Recruitment Agency

Crone Corkill

Best Online Service

JustEngineers.net

Commended: Ragtime

Best Recruitment Marketing Campaign

SevenHR

Best Regional Recruitment Firm

Contract Scotland

Commended: Impact Recruitment, Northampton

Recruiter Award for Training & Development

Ellis Fairbank

Commended: GRS Group

Commended: SkyBlue

Best Newcomer Award

Hunters Solutions

Commended: Fusion People

Best Managed Service Provider

Origin HR

Gary Clark Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Recruitment Profession

Ann Swain

The Gold Award

Eutopia Solutions

The Age Positive Recruitment Excellence Awards

Eden Brown

Best small agency: Wise Owls

Best large agency: Apollo 2000

Best medium-sized agency: White Horse Employment

Best practice on online recruitment: Aged2Excel