National Online Recruitment Awards - Winners

The winners of the National Online Recruitment Awards 2007 have just been announced.  Stephen O'Donnell has yet again done a great job at rounding up the judges (some who needed more rounding up than others!), sorting the nominations, collating the scores and pulling everything together. The winners are:

Best General Job Board: Fish4Jobs
This is the first year Fish4 have won in this category.  The site got the joint highest score across all the sites nominated this year. 

Best Specialist Jobsite: efinancial careers
Won last year by Jobserve. 

Best Regional Jobsite: s1jobs
s1jobs previously won this category in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006!

Best National Recruitment Agency Website: Search Consultancy
Won last year by Badenoch & Clark.

Best Small Recruitment Agency Website: pfj - Phee Farrer Jones 
pfj also won in this category last year.

Best Employer’s recruitment Website: West Midlands Police
Won last year by Whibread (who weren't nominated this year).  The site got the joint highest score across all the sites nominated this year. 

Best Online Recruitment Section by a Consumer Publication: The Guardian
The Guardian won this category in 2004.  The award was won last year by The Telegraph.

Best Online Recruitment Section by a Trade Publication: Caterer
Won last year by Personnel Today (who weren't nominated this year).

Best Employment Advice Website: Monster
Monster won this category in 2003, 2005 and 2006.

Best Innovation in Online Recruitment: JobTonic
This is a new category to the awards.  This category had the lowest total scores across all the categories.

I was one of the judges this year (it's my sixth year of being involved as a judge) and like previous years I found both inspiring and depressing.  Some of the sites were absolutely dreadful (and these are apparently the best in category), some didn't seem to  have moved on one inch from last year.  However, some were magnificent (even though they didn't win it the Royal Navy website is a fabulous example of creating a brilliant candidate experience - although I did think the winning West Midlands Police site was great too). The standard within the General Job Board category was really high and I actually found it hard to choose between them as they mostly offered the same types of service to a jobseeker (career advice, list of employers, "email a friend", create a saved list of potential jobs, etc) and had a great range of jobs across the industries. However, within the "Best Online Recruitment Section of a Consumer Publication" category I thought the standard was disappointing (although I did agree that The Guardian was the best).

In all cases I think the winners are worthy of the award.  Between all the judges 32 sites were given the top mark of five (compared to 39 last year) but 21 (compared to 12 last year) were given the lowest mark of just one (out of five).  Maybe the judges are getting tougher (too much watching x-factor?), maybe our standards are set a little higher or maybe there's plenty 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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