Ahead of Friday’s deadline for entries in this year’s Investing In Talent Awards, Recruiter caught up with O’Loughlin, who was Most Inspiring Team Leader/Manager at the inaugural Awards (2014) when working at Nicoll Curtin.

Loughlin, now a director at Summit Recruitment, told Recruiter: “In the months following my winning the Investing in Talent Award, our company and my team received a lot of additional attention. Although it was an individual award, it was a sign of recognition of the hard work that my team had put in over the previous couple of years and they took a lot of pride in it. It certainly helped when we were interviewing potential new recruits, some of whom used it as a discussion point. A couple of years after winning the award I set up Summit Recruitment and it is still something that I look back on with pride.”

Recruiters have until Friday (12 July) to get their entries into this year’s Awards. Click here to be in with a chance of winning.

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