- 450 recruitment leaders attend live gala dinner at The Brewery
- 13 winners honoured with 5 highly commended by panel of 35 judges
- Trinnovo Group wins hat trick of awards including Recruitment Leader of the Year
Wednesday 20th October 2021 – Winners of the 2021 TIARA Recruitment Awards were revealed at a Gala Dinner for 450 guests at The Brewery in London today, attended by CEOs and senior executives from the UK’s top 500 recruiters.
“Resilience is a fitting theme for the 2021 TIARA Recruitment Awards,” said Alex Evans, Programme Director TALiNT Partners. “The Covid-19 crisis hit the staffing sector hard in 2020, but those best able to optimise their talent, technology, and brand have taken advantage of new ways of working and competing for market leadership. This year’s winners are the champions of change that the industry needs to adapt and prosper to a constantly evolving talent market.”
This year’s Chair of Judges was leading human capital dealmaker Katie Folwell-Davies, Investment Director of Twenty 20 Capital. Commenting on this year’s finalists, she said: “Those companies that stood out for me were those that had invested through the pandemic – in headcount and technology – and had been able to demonstrate through their KPIs and their numbers the growth that was going to come from that investment.”
Jason Martin, Head of Strategy at Access Recruitment – headline partner of the TIARA Recruitment Awards – judged categories including the Best Recruitment Company to Work For and Recruitment Leader of the Year. “What has stood out in recent years, but even more so this year, was the focus on D&I and L&D,” he said. “I have really been impressed by the lengths that recruiters have gone to to invest in their people and the technology to support that. Those businesses have come out of lockdowns in the best shape to succeed over the next year.”
Trinnovo Group was the biggest winner of the night, taking the awards for Growth Recruitment Company of the Year, Best Recruitment Company to Work For with revenues between £20m and £50m, and Recruitment Leader of the Year for its founder and chairperson Ashley Lawrence.
Reed Global chairman James Reed was inducted into the TIARA Hall of Fame for his successful international expansion of Reed, spearheading the Keep Britain Working campaign in 2020, and for being a high-profile champion of the recruitment sector and its economic contribution.
The 2021 TIARA Recruitment Awards campaign was supported by headline partner Access Recruitment and supporting sponsors including: 6Cats International, Blackwood Capital, Clearwater International, Fore:Two Group, Gambit Corporate Finance, Grant Thornton, Mercury, Mishcon de Reya, Odro, Parasol Group, PurePro, Saffery Champness, Sonovate, Twenty20 Capital and VacancySoft.
The full list of TIARA Recruitment Award winners and highly commended finalists is as follows:
The Saffery Champness Hall of Fame Award
- Winner: James Reed, Chairman, Reed Global
The PurePro Back Office Team of the Year
- Winner: NRL
The Sonovate Client Service Award
- Winner: Sigmar Recruitment
The Access Group Tech Transformation Award
- Winner: Advantage Resourcing
- Highly Commended: Omni
The Fore:Two Group Candidate Service Award
Winner: ersg
The Blackwood Capital Diversity & Inclusion Award
- Winner: Goodman Masson
- Highly Commended: Trinnovo Group
The Odro Innovation Award
- Winner: La Fosse Associates
The VacancySoft Marketing Campaign of the Year
- Winner: Signify Technology
The Clearwater Growth Recruitment Company of the Year
- Winner: Trinnovo Group
The 6Cats International Recruitment Company of the Year
- Winner: NES Fircroft
The Grant Thornton Specialist Recruitment Company of the Year
- Winner: Signify Technology
- Highly Commended: NHS Professionals
The Parasol Group Temporary Recruitment Company of the Year
- Winner: TFS Healthcare
The Mercury Best Recruitment Company to work for (£5m to £20m)
- Winner: The Barton Partnership
- Highly Commended: Xpertise Recruitment
The Twenty20 Capital Best Recruitment Company to work for (£20m – £50m)
- Winner: Trinnovo Group
- Highly Commended: JCW Group
The Gambit Best Recruitment Company to Work For (£50m+)
- Winner: Amoria Bond
The Mishcon de Reya Recruitment Leader of the Year
- Winner: Ashley Lawrence, Chairperson, Trinnovo Group
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