2025 Winners
Best Place to Work – Small (<1,000)
Proudly partnered by:
🏆 Pipedrive 🏆
Silver: Tigerbond
Bronze: Mayden
Finalists:
Airbox Fulfilment
Fusebox Games
Immersive
Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD)
Mayden
Pipedrive
So Energy
Tigerbond
Zinc Work
Best Place to Work – Medium (1,000 – 5,000)
Proudly partnered by:
🏆Royal London🏆
Silver: Butlin’s
Bronze: BBC Studios
Finalists:
BBC Studios
Butlin’s
Cooper Parry
DFDS
Nucleus Financial
Royal London
StoneX Group
Best Place to Work – Large (>5,000)
Proudly partnered by:
🏆Bright Horizons UK🏆
Silver: Octopus Energy Group
Bronze: Mott MacDonald
Finalists:
Bright Horizons UK
Mott MacDonald
Octopus Energy Group
Candidate Assessment
Proudly partnered by:
🏆AWE (Spotted Zebra)🏆
Silver: Cooper Parry
Bronze: Integrated Care 24 (IC24)
Finalists:
Aegon UK
British Airways
BT Group / EE
Cooper Parry
Higgs (ThriveMap)
Integrated Care 24 (IC24)
AWE (Spotted Zebra)
Candidate Experience
Proudly partnered by:
🏆Dorothy House Hospice Care🏆
Silver: Aegon UK
Bronze: Grant Thornton UK
Finalists:
Aegon UK
bp retail (PageUp)
British Airways
College of Policing (Tazio)
Dorothy House Hospice Care
Equans
Grant Thornton UK
Impact Futures
King’s College London
MBDA (Meet & Engage)
Mitie
Octopus Energy Group
Sopra Steria
Career Site
Proudly partnered by:
🏆First Bus🏆
Silver: Sopra Steria
Bronze: University of the Arts London (UAL)
Finalists:
evo Group
First Bus
Forge Holiday Group
ODEON (Creed Comms)
Sopra Steria
Storm Technologies
The Adaptavist Group
University of the Arts London (UAL)
Veolia
Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Strategy
Proudly partnered by:
🏆British Heart Foundation🏆
Silver: Sopra Steria
Bronze: BBC Studios
Finalists:
BBC Studios
British Heart Foundation
DFDS
GXO Logistics
Leonardo Hotels
Mott MacDonald
Sopra Steria
University of the Arts London (UAL)
Virgin Media O2
Early Careers Initiative
Proudly partnered by:
🏆Morrisons (Amberjack)🏆
Silver: DHL Supply Chain
Bronze: National Grid
Finalists:
Apadmi
BUUK Infrastructure
Cooper Parry
DFDS
DHL Supply Chain
Dunelm
Hutchison Ports UK
Kennedys (PageUp)
Leonardo Hotels
Mitie
Morrisons (Amberjack)
National Grid
RDT
Employer Brand
Proudly partnered by:
🏆Aegon UK🏆
Silver: StoneX Group
Bronze: Now Teach
Finalists:
Aegon UK
Drax (Caraffi)
First Bus
Home Group
Munich Re
mydentist (Creed Comms)
National Grid
Now Teach
StoneX Group
Tigerbond
Executive Search Strategy
Proudly partnered by:
🏆CBRE🏆
Silver: King’s College London
Bronze: Direct Line Group
Finalists:
CBRE
Direct Line Group
King’s College London
Mitie
High-Growth Hiring Strategy
Proudly partnered by:
🏆Cooper Parry🏆
Silver: Delta Capita
Bronze: Nucleus Financial
Finalists:
Cooper Parry
Delta Capita
National Grid Electricity Transmission
Nucleus Financial
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
In-house Recruiter (Individual)
Proudly partnered by:
🏆Leandra Maritz, Virgin Media O2🏆
Silver: Beth Graham, DFDS
Bronze: Daniel Vinen, Alcumus
Finalists:
Archie Hirson, Newmark
Beth Graham, DFDS
Claudia Tait, Phaidon International
Daniel Vinen, Alcumus
Harry Rijken, Elastic
Jack Stinson, GXO Logistics
Katie Howard, IHG
Kieran Wright, previously at Sullivan & Stanley
Laura Harnett, InHealth
Leandra Maritz, Virgin Media O2
Lyndsay Bamber, Ainscough Crane Hire
Mollie Johnson, Virgin Media O2
Natalie Winterton-Whitfield, ZEAL Creative
Olivia Adams, Tandem Bank
Paul Farmer, Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD)
Paula McInally, West Midlands Combined Authority
Sean Winstanley, DFDS
Sofia Costa, Barchester Healthcare
In-house Recruitment Leader (Individual)
Proudly partnered by:
🏆Gareth Bowley, Dorothy House Hospice Care🏆
Silver: Charlotte Turton, InHealth
Bronze: Euan McNair, Aegon UK
Finalists:
Archie Hirson, Newmark
Charlotte Turton, InHealth
Debbie Cole, MBDA
Euan McNair, Aegon UK
Gareth Bowley, Dorothy House Hospice Care
Lucy Keen, Alcumus
Mark Kunaseelan, University of the Arts London (UAL)
Sharron O’Donnell, Virgin Media O2
Swarnendu Halder, Metaphysic.ai
Trishna Dhillon, The Telegraph
Internal Mobility
Proudly partnered by:
🏆So Energy🏆
Silver: Octopus Investments
Bronze: Nucleus Financial
Finalists:
So Energy
Octopus Investments
Nucleus Financial
Newcomer (Team)
Proudly partnered by:
🏆Integrated Care 24 (IC24)🏆
Silver: Project Better Energy
Bronze: evo Group
Finalists:
evo Group
Integrated Care 24 (IC24)
Legends Global
Project Better Energy
Royal London
Telefonica Tech UK&I
Onboarding Strategy
Proudly partnered by:
🏆A&M (Eli Onboarding)🏆
Silver: Faculty
Bronze: Integrated Care 24 (IC24)
Finalists:
A&M (Eli Onboarding)
Alcumus
Faculty
Impact Futures
Integrated Care 24 (IC24)
Nucleus Financial
Phaidon International
Scottish Power (Amberjack)
Outsourced In-house Recruitment Team (RPO / Embedded Solution)
Proudly partnered by:
🏆PeopleScout onsite at Heathrow Airport Holdings🏆
Silver: Equitas onsite at Mitie
Bronze: Hays RPO onsite at Mitie
Finalists:
AJ FLX Part of Alderson James onsite at Vinted
Equitas onsite at Mitie
Hays RPO onsite at Mitie
Highfield Partnership onsite at WRAP
PeopleScout onsite at Heathrow Airport Holdings
Recruitment Innovation
Proudly partnered by:
🏆IHG🏆
Silver: Aegon UK
Bronze: The Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (Sonia Mooney)
Finalists:
Aegon UK
B&M Stores (Eploy)
Barchester Healthcare
IHG
The Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (Sonia Mooney)
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Recruitment Marketing Campaign
Proudly partnered by:
🏆Fostering South West🏆
Silver: Now Teach
Bronze: First Bus
Finalists:
BT Group / EE
Dunelm
First Bus
Fostering South West
IHG
LEGO (SMRS)
Lidl (Creed Comms)
Mitie
Now Teach
The Eastern Region (Caraffi)
Recruitment Team – Small (< 1,000 employees)
Proudly partnered by:
🏆Tandem Bank🏆
Silver: So Energy
Bronze: Homes2Inspire
Finalists:
Homes2Inspire
Made Tech
So Energy
Tandem Bank
Telefonica Tech UK&I
TransferRoom
Recruitment Team – Medium (1,000 – 5,000 employees)
Proudly partnered by:
🏆Cooper Parry🏆
Silver: University of Sunderland
Bronze: DFDS
Finalists:
Aegon UK
BBC Studios
Butlin’s
Cooper Parry
DFDS
Elastic
Gowling WLG
Hamberley Care Homes
Hargreaves Lansdown
Rexel UK
Rider Levett Bucknall
The University of Law
University of Sunderland
Recruitment Team – Large (> 5,000 employees)
Proudly partnered by:
🏆Mondelēz Europe🏆
Silver: GXO Logistics
Bronze: MBDA
Finalists:
Barchester Healthcare
Care UK
GXO Logistics
Islington Council
MBDA
Mondelēz Europe
Mott MacDonald
Places for People
Ramsay Health Care UK
Spire Healthcare
University of the Arts London (UAL)
Virgin Media O2
Use of Technology
Proudly partnered by:
🏆Government Recruitment Service (Government People Group)🏆
Silver: Virgin Media O2
Bronze: HCRG Care Group
Finalists:
Barchester Healthcare
Government Recruitment Service (Government People Group)
HCRG Care Group
Ramsay Health Care UK
Virgin Media O2
West Midlands Employers
Video Campaign
🏆BT Group🏆
Silver: Fostering South West
Bronze: MBDA (SMRS)
Finalists:
BT Group
Fostering South West
GoDaddy
IHG (SMRS)
MBDA (SMRS)