The rules for the tenth National Online Recruitment Awards are as follows.
The categories for which public nominations have been invited are:
1. Best General Job Board – definition – A purely online job board, advertising vacancies across a wide range of disciplines throughout the UK. These sites must operate independently of recruitment firms or publications.
2. Best Specialist Job Board – definition – A purely online job board, advertising vacancies within a defined range of disciplines. These sites must operate independently of recruitment firms or publications. *
3. Best Regional Job Board – A purely online job board, advertising vacancies within a defined region or geographical area. These sites must operate independently of recruitment firms or publications.
4. Best National Recruitment Agency Website – The website of a recognised recruitment firm which has more than 3 branches. N.B. The size of an agency may be assessed on different criteria, dependant upon circumstances.
5. Best Small Recruitment Agency Website – The website of a recognised recruitment firm which has 3 branches or less. N.B. The size of an agency may be assessed on different criteria, dependant upon circumstances.
6. Best Major Employer’s Website – The recruitment section of a website for a major employer, with over 250 employees.
7. Best Small Employer’s Website – The recruitment section of a website for a small employer. Not a PLC, and having less than 250 employees.
8. Best Online Recruitment by a Consumer Publication – The recruitment section of a website of a consumer publication such as a newspaper, magazine or similar.
9. Best Online Recruitment by a Trade Publication – The recruitment section of a specialist trade or industry publication or similar.
10. Best Employment Advice Website – A website (or defined section of a website) whose principal purpose is to provide career and employment advice to candidates.
11. Best Newcomer - This category will recognise newly launched sites in the past year.
12. Best Innovation in Online Recruitment – This category will recognise sites which have developed new methods of improving the online recruitment experience for job seekers, recruiters and employers. This could include social media sites, be a technical development or simply a new twist in what facilities are available to candidates.
13. Recruitment Website of the Decade. This is a one off special award, to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the NORAs. Nominations are not required for this award, as the shortlist will be drawn from those websites who have already been Finalists and Winners since 2001. This award will recognise the sites that have made the greatest contribution to online recruitment, for jobseekers, during the 10 years of the NORAs.
Anyone can nominate any sites they choose, and give their reasons for nominating. These nominations will be considered by AlljobsUK.com and a panel of independent industry experts, and reduced to a shortlist of 5 nominations for each of these categories (*8 finalists for category 2). You may nominate a website, or websites, for each award category by clicking HERE. Nominations close on 10th September and the finalists will be announced on 28th September. Award winners will be announced on Thursday 4th November.
The criteria to be used in judging will include:
1. Ease of use, design, layout & speed.
2. Volume of available vacancies.
3. Volume of claimed visitors.
4. Available facilities for jobseekers.
5. Prominence in targeted market.
6. Where applicable, the mobile website and any application for a mobile platform will be taken into account.
These criteria are applied in terms of a site’s relevance to, and facilities appropriate to, it’s intended market. Sites will be assessed from the point of view of a jobseeker, and what benefits candidates best.
Shortlisted sites are entitled to display the Finalist logo on their site and literature.
An independent panel of JUDGES will use the same criteria, and their knowledge of the online recruitment sector, to select a winner in each category.
The winners in each category are entitled to display this logo on their site and literature.
