On the eve of the call for entries for the 2010 Awards for Excellence, Recruiter is proud to reveal the panel of judges who will adjudicate the nearly 30 award categories.

This year’s panel of judges represent a wide range of blue-chip organisations, renowned and respected agencies, and others with a deep knowledge and understanding of the vital role that recruitment plays within organisations.

DeeDee Doke, editor of Recruiter, who will chair this year’s judging panel, said: “With a wealth of experience from right across the spectrum of recruitment, both on the agency and the in-house sides, and containing some of our most innovative thinkers, the panel is ideally placed to maintain the Recruiter Awards for Excellence’s reputation as the most sought after accolade in the industry.”

The 2010 judges are:
Nicky Bizzell, head of resourcing, Eversheds
Kate Bleasdale, founder and executive vice chairman, Healthcare Locums and winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2009 for Business Services
Penny Davis, HR director, Balfour Beatty WorkPlace
Philippa Foster Back, director, Institute of Business Ethics
Alan MacKinnon, recruitment delivery manager, Transport for London
Kean Marden, managing director, head of support services equity research, ABN AMRO Bank
Paul Maxin, global resourcing director, Unilever
Claire McCartney, adviser - resourcing and talent planning, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Zach Miles, non-executive director, Empresaria Group and former chief executive, Vedior
Stephen Moir, director of people, policy and law, Cambridgeshire County Council
Samantha Rich, head of resourcing, AXA UK
Stevan Rolls, HR director, Deloitte
Lynne Thomas, director - advice, Work Foundation
Neil Wilson, managing director, Badenoch & Clark