Take a bow, and sing the praises of the recruiting success of you and your team this year by entering Recruiter’s Awards for Excellence 2010.

The Awards enter a new era this year with the introduction of honours for in-house recruiters and recruitment outsourcing (RO) firms, to sit alongside the traditional recognition for recruitment agencies. The move parallels the recently refocused direction of Recruiter to embrace the entire recruitment community. Recruiter publisher Phil Hayne said: “We had a number of high-profile employers at last year’s event, and the prospect of bringing together even more leading employers and top agencies to celebrate success together is very exciting.”

Entries will be accepted online from early October at www.recruiterawards.co.uk

The 2010 categories are:

For internal recruiters:

• Best Recruitment Team
• Most Effective Employer Brand Development
• Innovation in Recruitment
• Best Candidate Experience
• Most Effective Recruitment Strategy
• Best Diversity Recruitment Strategy

For external recruiters:

• Best Professional Services Recruitment Agency (including agencies operating in accountancy, banking & financial services, creative, human resources, legal, marketing, media or PR)
• Best Commercial Recruitment Agency (including agencies operating in office support, customer service, call centres, hospitality, leisure, retail, sales or travel)
• Best Industrial Recruitment Agency (for agencies operating in construction, drivers, food processing, logistics, manufacturing, warehouse)
• Best Public Sector Recruitment Agency (with specialisms including education, healthcare/medical, housing, social care, voluntary and charitable)
• Best Technical Recruitment Agency (including agencies that operate in aerospace, architecture, energy and power such as green, oil & gas, nuclear, engineering, environmental services, IT pharmaceutical, biotechnology, science)
• Best International Recruitment Agency (for agencies which operate offices and base staff in a minimum of three countries outside the UK and Ireland)
• Best Interim Recruitment Agency
• Best Executive Search Agency
• Best Newcomer Agency (for agencies that started trading no earlier than 1 January 2007)
• Best Client Service
• Best Candidate Care
• Best Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
• Best Agency to Work For
• Agency of the Year

For RO organisations:

• Outstanding Outsourced Recruitment
• Organisation
• Best Embedded Recruiting Team

Online:

• Best Job Board
• Best Social Networking Site for Recruitment

Recruitment advertising:

• Best Recruitment Campaign

Overall:

• Recruitment Personality of the Year. Nominated by our readers, this Award will be presented to the recruiter (external, internal, RO, recruitmentadvertising, job board, etc) who has made the most significant impact on the industry in 2009.
  
  
  
  Recruiter is calling upon all recruitment agencies and resourcing professionals to help identify the future of our industry as we emerge from recession by taking part in our online survey on recruiter.co.uk. Upon completing the survey, open online until 9 October, participants will be emailed a free version of the results, a summary of which will be published in Recruiter and on recruiter.co.uk. Responses, which will be collated by an independent research company, remain confidential, and identities will be withheld from Recruiter and third parties. Individual respondents and their organisations cannot be named or recognised.