2026 Award Categories
Recognition, Credibility & Prestige
The TIARAs set a new standard of excellence for the Staffing, RPO/MSP and Talent Solution sector’s crowning achievements across 17 award categories.
Entry Guidelines
To increase your chances of being shortlisted:
- Register on our online entry platform and select the TIARA Staffing & Talent Solutions Awards Europe. Our awards management system allows you to save, amend, submit and pay for your entries.
- Provide testimonials, links to videos or case studies in the Supplementary Information section.
- Provide information about commercial performance and other key improvement measure.
- If you are entering multiple award categories, please adapt your entries as questions may differ.
- Please note that the £325 cost per entry includes judging feedback.
- For any support using the award platform, please contact awards@talintpartners.com
*Please note that TALiNT Partners Members qualify for discounts on entry fees and ceremony places
Staffing Categories
The Client Service Award
- This award recognises excellence and collaboration in delivering outstanding client solutions. It celebrates those who consistently build trust, achieve measurable results, and go above and beyond to meet client needs.
The candidate experience Award
- This award recognises excellence in the way candidates are sourced, managed and supported to ensure the best outcome.
The Popp best use of technology & Innovation Award
- This award recognises organisations that deliver measurable impact by solving business challenges through innovative technology solutions or creative use of existing tools.
The growth staffing company of the year
- This award recognises a high-growth staffing business that has a track record of sustainable growth in sales, profit, headcount, and client base in context of size and stage of scale.
The Grant Thornton specialist staffing company of the year
- This award recognises market leaders in a specialist sector who can demonstrate the best growth, depth of knowledge, and differentiation from competitors.
The Kitto staffing brand of the year
- This award recognises the best use of a brand in a staffing company to gain a competitive edge based on measurable improvement in candidate, client, and employee engagement.
The international Staffing business of the year
- This award recognises those who have demonstrated sustainable and compliant growth in international sales, profit, headcount, and customer base.
The staffing consultant of the year
- This award celebrates an exceptional individual who has demonstrated outstanding performance, professionalism, and impact within the staffing industry.
Talent Solutions Categories
The Client Service Award
- This award recognises excellence and collaboration in delivering outstanding client solutions. It celebrates those who consistently build trust, achieve measurable results, and go above and beyond to meet client needs.
The Bullhorn best use of technology & Innovation Award
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This award recognises organisations that deliver measurable impact by solving business challenges through innovative technology solutions or creative use of existing tools.
The inclusive recruitment award
- This award recognises companies who demonstrate a clear and measurable impact in supporting their clients' access to a more diverse workforce or drive higher levels of inclusion by addressing challenges such as economic inequality, access to education, training or more effective employee engagement and retention.
The long-term partnership award
- This award looks for evidence of genuine partnership over a period of at least five years. It will look at both sustained success and continuous improvement but can also include major improvement and/or turnaround scenarios.
The Linkedin best talent attraction strategy
- This award celebrates the most impactful talent attraction strategy, whether engaging early career talent, elevating a client’s employer brand or providing a positive candidate experience.
The jove contingent Workforce Solutions Provider of the year
- This award recognises providers of contingent workforce solutions demonstrating the greatest innovation in contingent workforce sourcing and management, and the highest level of client service and supply chain engagement.
Staffing & Talent Solutions
The best company to work for
- This award recognises organisations that stand out as employers of choice by attracting, developing, and retaining top talent.
The back-office team of the year
- This award recognises an exemplary team within all back-office, operations and support functions that have enabled or best supported growth, innovation, or performance.
The leader of the year
- This award recognises a visionary 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 throughout the past year.