Jobs Board sponsored the National Recruitment Federation 5th Industry Awards 2011 ceremony in the Shelburne hotel on November 25th 2011. The event was the largest Awards event in the NRF Awards history ever. The list of attendees almost doubled from the last year’s event. The NRF management is obviously doing a very good job. Congratulations to all at NRF for making the NRF Awards 2011 happen: Colin Donnery (President), Peter Cosgrove (Vice - President), Niall McDevitt (Honorary Secretary), David Seery Kearney, Frank Collins, Anne Fanthom, Shona McManus, Garth McKeown, Louise Nolan, Richard Eardley (Treasurer), Barbara McGrath, Geraldine King (Director) and Jackie Gaughan (Member Services). The awards are the only recruitment industry specific awards and the initiative is designed to identify and reward excellence in recruitment in Ireland and is open to all member agencies of the NRF.

The judging was carried out by an independent panel:

Tony Lambert, CEO, Fingal/Dublin Chamber of Commerce
Gillian Econopoly, Head of Public policy REC- UK
Pat Meehan, CEO of Invictus Management
Sorcha Corcoran, Senior Editor, Silicon Republic