WINNERS 2020

We are absolutely thrilled to reveal the Winners of the National Online Recruitment Awards 2020, which were announced at our 20th annual event online on Wednesday 11th November. The astonishing calibre of this year’s Finalists, nominated by jobseekers, reflects the heightened levels of innovation in the online recruitment sector today.  Jobseekers should lookout for this logo on our winners’ websites. In particular, we are blown away by the resilience of these organisations during this year’s pandemic.

We also presented the NORA Academy Award, which is voted for by former Finalists and Winners from the last 20 years. This award reflects how recruitment websites regard each other, and from their unique perspective.

The winner of our Academy Award 2020 is Women In Tech, which has had a meteoric rise over the past few years, closely followed by Vercida and Macildowie as runners up (who also won awards in their own categories).

At our first ever awards entirely online event, over 540 attendees made it the most unique awards we have held. Our stellar line-up of Finalists enjoyed a fantastic event of celebration of UK online recruitment excellence.

The Winners for the National Online Recruitment Awards 2020 are as follows:

BEST INNOVATION  
RedWigWam https://redwigwam.com
BEST NEWCOMER  
Derbyshire Police https://careers.derbyshire.police.uk/
BEST EMPLOYMENT ADVICE WEBSITE  
Debut.Careers https://debut.careers/insight/
BEST TRADE PUBLICATION  
Nursing Times Jobs https://www.nursingtimesjobs.com/
BEST CONSUMER PUBLICATION  
Guardian jobs https://jobs.guardian.co.uk
BEST SME EMPLOYER  
Macildowie https://www.macildowie.com/work-for-us-new
BEST MAJOR EMPLOYER  
Games Workshop https://jobs.games-workshop.com/
BEST SMALL RECRUITMENT AGENCY  
Cavendish Professionals https://www.cavendishprofessionals.com/
BEST LARGE RECRUITMENT AGENCY  
(ARM) Advanced Resource Managers https://www.arm.co.uk/
BEST NATIONAL RECRUITMENT AGENCY  
Michael Page  https://michaelpage.co.uk
BEST REGIONAL JOB BOARD  
Love Local https://www.lovelocaljobs.com/
BEST SPECIALIST JOB BOARD  
Vercida https://vercida.com/uk
BEST GENERALIST JOB BOARD  
Reed.co.uk https://reed.co.uk/
NORA ACADEMY AWARD Winner  
Women In Tech https://www.womenintech.co.uk/news-guides
ACADEMY AWARD FINALISTS 2020  
Macildowie https://www.macildowie.com/work-for-us-new
Vercida https://vercida.com/uk
RECRUITMENT WEBSITE OF THE DECADE  
CV-Library https://cv-library.co.uk
 

Academy Award

The Academy Award is our only trophy which is voted for by their peers. All fellow and former Finalists from...
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Best Generalist Job Board

Given the profile of the Finalists, this is often seen as our flagship award. This award recognises the largest and...
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Best Specialist Job Board

Competition for the Best Specialist, or Niche Job Board award is so fierce, we have eight Finalists in this category....
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Best Regional Job Board

Regional job boards are able to provide candidates and employers with a local focus, which they can identify with and...
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Best National Recruitment Agency

These recruitment industry giants have enormous clout in the marketplace, and ensure their online presence appeals to both candidates and...
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Best Large Recruitment Agency

This award is in recognition of that middle ground between small recruitment agencies, and national PLC organisations. You could say...
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Best Small Recruitment Agency

The UK has the highest density of recruitment agencies found anywhere in the world, and some 80% of those are...
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Best Major Employer

Large national employers in the UK, often led by extremely experienced in-house recruiters, have really raised the bar this year,...
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Best SME Employer

Small to medium enterprise employers form the backbone of industry and commerce in the UK, and have particularly unique challenges,...
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Best Consumer Publication

Whilst printed newspaper recruitment advertising for many publications has all but disappeared, their online services are busier than ever.  The...
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Best Trade Publication

Trade Publications, often in line with trade bodies, in the UK, have a unique role in each professional marketplace and...
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Best Employment Advice Website

Our award for Best Employment Advice recognises an area of vital importance to jobseekers looking to research not only the job...
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Best Newcomer

Our award for Best Newcomer in Online Recruitment recognises all types online recruitment in every category, and can include job...
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Best Innovation in Online Recruitment

Our award for Best Innovation recognises all forms of innovation in online recruitment. Whilst the NORAs primarily identifies websites and...
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