2024 FINALISTS
Recognition, Credibility & Prestige
The TIARAs recognise excellence, innovation and growth in the recruitment sector across 15 award categories and our prestigious Hall of Fame Award. Celebrate with the best in the industry.
Five reasons to attend
- Exclusive opportunity to network with leaders of enterprise level recruitment companies.
- Rare insight into what set the winners apart and why they won their awards.
- Meet our judging panel of in-house leaders, advisers and senior industry executives.
- Entertain key clients and prospects in an atmosphere of celebration.
- This prestigious industry event provides a rare opportunity to celebrate and connect with CEOs and senior leaders from the sector’s top staffing firms.
The 2024 Finalists
THE Liquid Friday BUSINESS SERVICES TEAM OF THE YEAR
This Award recognises an exemplary services team within any staffing back-office function that has best supported growth, enabled innovation or improved performance.
Our 2024 Finalists are:
- Antal International
- Morgan Hunt
- Radley James
- Signify Technology
- ersg Ltd
- NHS Professionals
- Roc Search
The SourceWhale Client Service Award
This Award recognises excellence and collaboration in the delivery of a talent acquisition project, campaign or ongoing client partnership.
Our 2024 Finalists are:
- Franklin Fitch
- Oyster Partnership
- The Barton Partnership
- Hudson RPO
- Randstad
- Xcede Group
THE Bullhorn BEST USE OF TECHNOLOGY AWARD
This Award recognises the best use of technology in a recruitment company to gain a competitive edge by improving candidate experience, client service, productivity or profitability.
Our 2024 Finalists are:
- Antal International
- iXceed Solutions
- Source Group International
- Engage Partners
- Matchtech
The Fore:Two Group Candidate Experience Award
This Award recognises excellence in the way candidates are sourced, managed and supported to ensure the best outcome.
Our 2024 Finalists are:
- Franklin Fitch
- Matchtech
- Kemp Recruitment
- Tile Hill
THE SCALE UP RECRUITMENT COMPANY OF THE YEAR
This Award recognises a high growth recruitment business with revenues between £1 Million and £5 Million that has built the strongest foundations for scale.
Our 2024 Finalists are:
- Bridge of Hope Careers Ltd
- Connecting Experts
- Socium
- CLM Search
- Navitas
The Ascen Innovation Award
This Award recognises the best examples of innovation and improvement that have enabled recruiters to gain a competitive edge or grow more profitably.
Our 2024 Finalists are:
- Kemp Recruitment
- Nexus Search Limited
- Xpertise Recruitment
- Morgan Hunt
- Xcede Group
THE PARASOL TEMPORARY RECRUITMENT COMPANY OF THE YEAR
This Award recognises excellence, innovation and growth in sourcing, placing and supporting temporary and contingent talent.
Our 2024 Finalists are:
- Engage Partners
- New Directions
- The Best Connection Employment Group
- Mane Contract Services Ltd
- Roc Search
THE QDOS GROWTH RECRUITMENT COMPANY OF THE YEAR
This Award recognises an impressive track record of sustainable growth in sales, profit, headcount, and client base in context of size and stage of scale.
Our 2024 Finalists are:
- Amoria Group
- Methods Professional Services
- Tile Hill
- InterEx Group
- Nexus Search Limited
- VHR
THE SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT COMPANY OF THE YEAR (Up to £50M)
This Award recognises market leaders in a specialist sector who can demonstrate the best growth, depth of knowledge, and differentiation from competitors.
Our 2024 Finalists are:
- EMR
- Mane Contract Services Ltd
- Signify Technology
- VHR
- Engage Partners
- Radley James
- Source
THE GRANT THORNTON SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT COMPANY OF THE YEAR (Over £50M)
This Award recognises market leaders in a specialist sector who can demonstrate the best growth, depth of knowledge, and differentiation from competitors.
Our 2024 Finalists are:
- ersg Ltd
- Robert Walters
- Xcede Group
- NHS Professionals
- TeacherActive
THE Workwell INTERNATIONAL RECRUITMENT COMPANY OF THE YEAR
This Award recognises those who have demonstrated sustainable and compliant growth in international sales, profit, headcount, and customer base.
Our 2024 Finalists are:
- Approach People Recruitment
- InterEx Group
- Radley James
- VHR
- Franklin Fitch
- NES Fircroft
- Robert Walters
The Trowers & Hamlins LLP Best Recruitment Company to Work For (£5m to £50m)
This Award recognises employers of choice in recruitment who can demonstrate excellence in the attraction, induction, development, and retention of their own talent.
Our 2024 Finalists are:
- Approach People Recruitment
- Franklin Fitch
- Nexus Search Limited
- Tile Hill
- EMR
- Masentó Group
- Signify Technology
- Xpertise Recruitment
The Saffery Best Recruitment Company to Work For (£50m to £100m)
This Award recognises employers of choice in recruitment who can demonstrate excellence in the attraction, induction, development, and retention of their own talent.
Our 2024 Finalists are:
- Extrastaff Ltd
- New Directions
- TeacherActive
- InterEx Group
- Source Group International
- Xcede Group
The Blackwood Capital Best Recruitment Company to Work For (Over £100m)
This Award recognises employers of choice in recruitment who can demonstrate excellence in the attraction, induction, development, and retention of their own talent.
Our 2024 Finalists are:
- Amoria Group
- HCRG Workforce and Sugarman Holdings Ltd
- NES Fircroft
- SThree
- ersg Ltd
- La Fosse
- Robert Walters
The Mishcon de Reya Recruitment Leader of the Year
This Award recognises a visionary recruitment leader who has achieved exceptional growth, pioneered transformational improvement – in their business or industry – and inspired the highest levels of engagement and performance from their people.
Our 2024 Finalists are:
- Lorna Conn, Chief Executive Officer, Cpl
- Tim Millward, CEO & Founder, Extrastaff Ltd
- Matthew Wragg, CEO, Gattaca
- Ollie Whiting, CEO, La Fosse
- Sasza Bandiera, CEO, Oyster Partnership
- Carmen Watson, Chair, Pertemps Network Group
- Nicholas Barton, Founder & CEO, The Barton Partnership
The Mercury Hall of Fame Award
This Award honours an individual with a distinguished career in the recruitment sector who has had a major impact on the industry and achieved exceptional success as a business leader.
Previous recipients of this Award include:
- Ged Mason
- Steve Ingham
- James Reed
- Peter Searle
- Anne Heraty
- Anthony Martin
- Sir Alec Reed
- Terry Benson
- Irene Marvin
- John Rowley
- Brian Wilkinson
- Denis Waxman
- Julia Robertson
- Tim Watts
- James Kilbane
- Jerry Mason
- Gary Ashworth