2025 FINALISTS
Recognition, Credibility & Prestige
The TIARAs recognise excellence, innovation and growth in the recruitment sector across 15 award categories, plus our prestigious Hall of Fame Award.
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 2025 Finalists
THE Meet dwight 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 2025 Finalists are:
- Antal International
- First Point Group
- Eames Group
- Tile Hill
The Client Service Award
This Award recognises excellence and collaboration in the delivery of a talent acquisition project, campaign or ongoing client partnership.
Our 2025 Finalists are:
- Amoria Group
- Franklin Fitch
- Pivotal Partners
- VHR
- Bright Network
- Oakley Recruitment
- Signify Technology
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 2025 Finalists are:
- Optime Group
- The Portfolio Group
- Savannah Group
- Trinnovo Group
The Candidate Experience Award
This Award recognises excellence in the way candidates are sourced, managed and supported to ensure the best outcome.
Our 2025 Finalists are:
- _nology
- Aldwych Consulting
- Flourish
- V7 Recruitment
- Academize
- Emerique & Partners Ltd
- SF Recruitment
- VHR
THE RECRUITMENT Marketing Award
This Award recognises the best marketing initiative that demonstrated excellence and innovation in conception, execution and results.
Our 2025 Finalists are:
- Boden Group
- Major Players
- The Best Connection
- First Point Group
- Radley James
The 3b 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 2025 Finalists are:
- GCS Recruitment Specialists Ltd
- Savannah Group
- Xcede Group
- Morgan Hunt
- VHR
THE TEMPORARY RECRUITMENT COMPANY OF THE YEAR
This Award recognises excellence, innovation and growth in sourcing, placing and supporting temporary and contingent talent.
Our 2025 Finalists are:
- Bluestones Supply Chain Derby
- Optime Group
- V7 Recruitment
- ERSG Ltd
- The Best Connection
- VHR
THE 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 2025 Finalists are:
- Amoria Group
- Edison Smart
- Linnk Group
- Proactive Global
- Clear Engineering Recruitment Ltd
- ERSG Ltd
- Penta Consulting
- VHR
THE Grant Thornton SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT COMPANY OF THE YEAR (Up to £20M)
This Award recognises market leaders in a specialist sector who can demonstrate the best growth, depth of knowledge, and differentiation from competitors.
Our 2025 Finalists are:
- Arthur
- DeepRec.ai
- Franklin Fitch
- Clear Engineering Recruitment Ltd
- Edison Smart
- Radley James
THE GRANT THORNTON SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT COMPANY OF THE YEAR (Over £20M)
This Award recognises market leaders in a specialist sector who can demonstrate the best growth, depth of knowledge, and differentiation from competitors.
Our 2025 Finalists are:
- ERSG Ltd
- Penta Consulting
- VHR
- NHS Professionals
- Rise Technical Recruitment
- Xcede Group
THE INTERNATIONAL RECRUITMENT COMPANY OF THE YEAR (up to £50M)
This Award recognises those who have demonstrated sustainable and compliant growth in international sales, profit, headcount, and customer base.
Our 2025 Finalists are:
- Emerique & Partners Ltd
- GCS Recruitment Specialists Ltd
- Linnk Group
- VHR
- Franklin Fitch
- iXceed Solutions
- Proactive Global
THE INTERNATIONAL RECRUITMENT COMPANY OF THE YEAR (Over £50M)
This Award recognises those who have demonstrated sustainable and compliant growth in international sales, profit, headcount, and customer base.
Our 2025 Finalists are:
- ERSG Ltd
- Penta Consulting
- NES Fircroft
- Pracyva Limited
The Sourcewhale Best Recruitment Company to Work For (under £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 2025 Finalists are:
- Arthur
- Franklin Fitch
- Oakley Recruitment
- VHR
- Box Recruitment
- Linnk Group
- Tile Hill
- Xpertise Recruitment
The Blackwood Capital Best Recruitment Company to Work For (Over £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 2025 Finalists are:
- Amoria Group
- La Fosse
- Pracyva Limited
- Eames Group
- NES Fircroft
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 2025 Finalists are:
- Ollie Whiting, CEO, La Fosse
- Jeanette Barrowcliffe, Finance Director, Meridian Business Support
- Hayley Pugh, Founder & Director, Oakley Recruitment
- Aminash Patel, CEO, Penta Consulting
- Amit Warwatkar, CEO, Pracyva Limited
- Timo Lehne, CEO, SThree
- David Weir, Managing Director & Founder, Tile Hill
- Danny Brooks MBE, CEO, VHR
The 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:
- Mark Cahill
- Tim Watts
- James Kilbane
- Jerry Mason
- Gary Ashworth
- Anthony Martin
- Sir Alec Reed
- Terry Benson
- Irene Marvin
- John Rowley
- Brian Wilkinson
- Denis Waxman
- Ged Mason
- Steve Ingham
- James Reed
- Peter Searle
- Anne Heraty
2025 Partners
