The winners of the National Online Recruitment Awards 2006 have just been announced. Stephen O'Donnell has yet again done a great job at rounding up the judges, sorting the nominations, collating the scores and pulling everything together - right on schedule!.
The winners are:
Best General Job Board: Monster
Monster was the winner in this category last year. The Monster site got the joint highest score across all the sites nominated this year.
Best Specialist Jobsite: Jobserve
Won last year by Executives on the Web. Jobserve last won in this category in 2001
Best Regional Jobsite: s1jobs
s1jobs previously won this category in 2003, 2004 and 2005
Best National Recruitment Agency Website: Badenoch & Clark
Won lat year by AndersElite - who came second in the category this year.
Best Small Recruitment Agency Website: pfj - Phee Farrer Jones
Won lat year by StopGap (who weren't nominated this year)
Best Employer’s recruitment Website: Whitbread
Won last year by NHS Careers who came joint last in the category this year. This category had the joint lowest total scores and Whitbread, whilst winners, got the lowest score of any winning site this year.
Best Online Recruitment Section by a Consumer Publication: The Telegraph
The Telegraph won this category in 2001 and 2002.
Best Online Recruitment Section by a Trade Publication: Personnel Today
Won last year by New Scientists Jobs (who came 4th in this category this year)
Best Employment Advice Website: Monster
Monster won this category in 2005 and 2003.
I was one of the judges this year (I think it's my fifth year of being involved as a judge) and found it in equal terms inspiring and depressing. Some sites were truly inspirational whilst others were offering a less than acceptable service to the jobseeker. The standard within the General Job Board category was really high. Most of the sites offered the same types of service to a jobseeker (home page search engine, career advice, list of employers, ability to have jobs emailed to you, etc) and had a great range of jobs across the industries. I actually found it hard to choose between them. However, within the Best Employer's Recruitment Website category I thought the standard was disappointing. The highlight of these sites was the amount of information available to job seekers about the organisation (the MOD was fantastic in this respect) and the type of jobs available (Unilever had great "career profiles"). However, a common problem (on all bar Whitbread's site) was that applying for a job was practically impossible.
In all cases I think the winners are worthy of the award. Of the nine categories, I had ranked six of the winners as my top site too. Collectively as judges we had 270 "marks" to give. 39 sites were given the top mark of five but 12 were given the lowest mark of just one (out of five). Looks like there's still scope to improve the value of these sites to jobseekers.
You can see information on nominations and awards for previous years at http://www.alljobsuk.com
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