REC Awards
The REC Awards entry process is exclusively for Recruitment & Employment Confederation members, and our 19 categories recognise both individual achievement and company-wide success.
You’re only a few steps away from entering REC Awards! Here’s all you need to know to submit your entry:
- Get started by reading our How to Enter Information, and reviewing the Judge's Tips . If you wish to read this information offline or share with colleagues, you can download an entry pack to share offline by clicking here.
- Then follow the steps to create an account or login with your details. (if creating account for first time, you’ll receive an email with a validation code. Enter the validation code on the form. Don't forget to check your junk mail if you don't receive it within a few minutes.)
- Complete the entry form with all the information relevant to your project. Don’t worry If you don’t have all the information you need just yet. The system will automatically save your submission and you can return and complete it at anytime before the deadline. Just go back into your account in the menu and log in.
- Please avoid using the individual or company's name in your answers. REC hides identifying fields from our Judging Panel to ensure submissions are reviewed without any potential bias, but names within answers are harder to restrict. We appreciate your assistance with our efforts to make our judging process even more robust.
- Don’t forget to click the ‘Complete’ button to confirm your submission!
- Be sure to submit all entries by the entry deadline: 5pm, Friday 12 July 2024!
Individual Categories - What we need from you:
Best Newcomer in Temporary Recruitment
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This award is aimed at individuals who have shown true promise in their new temporary recruitment role. Entrants should be consultants with less than 18 months’ industry experience and be an affiliate member of the REC Professionals. The winner will demonstrate that he or she has made a positive impact on the business by building strong relationships with candidates and clients. If this sounds like you, this is the category to enter!
Best Newcomer in Permanent Recruitment
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This award is aimed at individuals who have shown true promise in their new permanent recruitment role. Entrants should be consultants with less than 18 months’ industry experience and be an affiliate member of the REC Professionals. The winner will demonstrate that he or she has made a positive impact on the business by building strong relationships with candidates and clients. If this sounds like you, this is the category to enter!
Temporary Recruiter of the Year
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Are you a temporary recruiter who has consistently exceeded your company’s expectation and targets? Do you have tales of how you have ‘gone the extra mile’ that is worthy of being recognised as the best in the UK? Then this category is for you.
Permanent Recruiter of the Year
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Are you a permanent recruiter who has consistently exceeded your company’s expectation and targets? Do you have tales of how you have ‘gone the extra mile’ that is worthy of being recognised as the best in the UK? Then this category is for you.
Agency Star of the Year
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This category is aimed at all employees within a recruitment agency who have demonstrated excellence in delivering a service that is above and beyond expectation – whether that’s through exceptional customer service or innovation within a process that has had a significant impact on efficiency, candidate or client satisfaction.
Candidate Experience of the Year
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This award recognises the positive impact recruiters have by empowering people to make important choices and change their lives for the better. You understand that getting the right job can have a profound effect on a candidate's life, whether that be by securing a better income, moving to another part of the country for a role or taking a job with more flexible hours to allow more time to spend with their family, whilst providing an excellent candidate experience. If you go that extra mile to ensure the best candidate experience, this is the category for you to enter.
Business Leader of the Year
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This category is aimed at business directors, senior managers and owners who have demonstrated excellence in driving your business forward – whether that’s through supporting employees, transforming the business or innovating on your approach to candidate service. We’re looking to hear from leaders who’ve transcended the traditional role as a boss and someone who can provide great examples from their employees or clients.
Company categories - What we need from you:
Recruitment Team of the Year
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This is an excellent opportunity to celebrate the success of a recent project or campaign you’ve worked on as a team – whether that’s a marketing campaign or bringing in a new innovation/process within your organisation. We’d like to hear the full story – from how you worked together to what you achieved at the end of the project.
Shared Services Team of the Year
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The Award for Shared Service Team seeks to draw attention to the often unsung heroes who provide the day-to-day support for recruiters and management teams. Entrants should be in a non-front line business support area, such as marketing, admin support, finance, compliance or resourcing.
Impact on a Client's Business Award
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This award is aimed at companies operating within the recruitment industry who can demonstrate how they have helped a client transformation their business through a successful candidate attraction or retention strategy. Whether through Technology, Resource Management, organisational change or other means. The judges will be looking for an organisation that demonstrates a true partnership with a client that has had a positive affect on the clients resourcing and staffing requirements.
Applications should be jointly proposed by the recruitment organisation and their client.
Demonstrating High Standards in Recruitment Award
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In this category, we are looking to celebrate companies operating within the recruitment industry who can demonstrate not only good compliance, but a demonstrable way of working which drives high standards in recruitment. The judges will be looking for a champion that consistently goes the extra mile to ensure their staff deliver high levels of compliance and go the extra mile to ensure that all standards are adhered to and exceeded, whether through technology, training or KPIs and processes and can show that that it has embedded high standards throughout its organisation.
Community Impact of the Year
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The judges will be looking for a recruitment business that has invested in their staff and systems to enable it to improve its social and environmental concerns in their business operations in the communities they operate in. The award will be given to the recruitment business best able to demonstrate how it achieves a balance of economic, environmental and social imperatives while at the same time engaging with stakeholders and staff alike. Judges will be looking for professionalism, ethical behaviour and practices that have resulted in the enhanced image of the recruitment industry as well the business itself.
Sustainability Impact of the Year
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This award looks to recognise and celebrate firms leading on the green agenda and the business role in the UK’s path towards Net Zero. There is an increasing expectation amongst clients and candidates that businesses they work with will have in place clear plans to reduce their carbon footprint and drive sustainability. There are also huge prizes to be won within the green economy which will only be enabled with the right green skills. The winning firm will be able to showcase the steps they are taking internally and/or with clients to contribute to this.
Diversity Initiative of the Year
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Creating a respectful, inclusive and empowering working culture is not only important to prevent discrimination, but it also allows your employees, candidates and clients to feel welcome, valued and safe to contribute their innovative ideas. This award is aimed at companies that have successfully demonstrated equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) on multiple levels within their organisation, and/or as part of their client offering. We’d like to hear from you about the steps you took to achieve this.
People Development Business Award
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Does your organisation have a people development strategy that has proven successful in the past year or so? Do you have a promising story demonstrating its impact on your business performance? Then we’d like to hear from you.
Start Up of the Year
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This award recognises entrepreneurs and their new start-up businesses; recognising the challenges and highlights of their first year and how they have triumphed. Enter this category to be recognised for your innovation, quality of service and willingness to go above and beyond for your clients and candidates.
To be eligible for this category, you need to have started your business no earlier than 1st December 2020.
Best Company to work for (up to 20 employees)
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This award is aimed at agencies with up to 20 employees that has demonstrated success in terms of people development, employee engagement and recognition. We’re looking to hear from businesses who have put employees at their heart of their business strategy and can demonstrate examples of where this has paid dividends.
Best Company to work for (up to 50 employees)
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Are you a medium-sized recruitment agency with up to 50 employees that has demonstrated success in terms of people development, employee engagement and recognition? We are looking to hear from businesses who have put employees at their heart of their business strategy and can demonstrate examples of where this has paid dividends.
Best Company to work for (over 50 employees)
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This category is aimed at larger recruitment agencies (with over 50 employees) who can demonstrate success in terms of people development, employee engagement and recognition. We are looking to hear from businesses who have put employees at their heart of their business strategy and can demonstrate examples of where this has paid dividends.