Agency of the year – Large Agency National Recruitment Federation 2011 Award winner is Parc Aviation.

This award was sponsored by LinkedIN.

    This category portrayed all entries showcasing fantastic standards.  Unfortunately a smaller selection had to be made based on the applications presented.  The winner quite literally pipped at the post, but win they did, based on their demonstration of their industry leadership at interview that simply complimented their application. They have a clear vision of what is expected of them from the customer. They are focused on their business and the balance is spot on between the customer/candidates and their internal staff.
Their commitment to meeting the expectations of their client was very evident which made them a very strong contender in this category.

The nominees in this category were:

CPL

Hays Recruitment

Brightwater

Noel Recruitment

Sigmar

Parc Aviation

Grafton Recruitment

Best in Practice National Recruitment Federation 2011 Award winner for IT & Telecoms category is CPL.

The Award was sponsored by Project House and presented by Les Cooke.

    This year saw a huge amount of entries to this category. The judges were blown away by the quality of the entries and found it extremely challenging to shortlist and declare a winner. There was but a marginal couple of points between the outright winner and the rest of the nominees. The winner stood out for the judges for their very strong business growth and development in recessionary times. They showed a commitment to delivering the best to both the candidates and the clients. Their submission proved they are very committed to the Industry and from an employees perspective how good they are to work for.

In this category the nominees were:

Vantage Resources

CPL Resources

Hays Recruitment

Gempool

Elan IT

Stelfox

Archer Recruitment

National Recruitment Federation Recruitment Consultant of the Year 2011 Award goes to Peter Nunan from Sigmar.

    This category was very strongly contested and drew one of the highest entries. The judges had a very hard task as the quality was outstanding this year. The winner stood out strongly for all the judges for their commitment to their role and their all-round professionalism with both candidates and clients alike. They found the winner to be very self aware, articulate and knew what they needed to work on. The winner also understood the importance of standards in the industry and how it was all about people rather than the fee. From a clients perspective knew what was being asked of them and delivered 100%.

Nominees for the Recruitment Consultant of the Year NRF 2011 Award were:
Kevin Clarke - Grafton Recruitment,
Sandra McGuirk - Parc Aviation,
Lisa Russell - Servisource,
Peter Nunan - Sigmar,
Karen Kavanagh - Noel Recruitment,
Louise Delany - Quest Recruitment and
Lisa Collins - Hays.