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We are now in the last month of nominations for the NORAs.  Any site wishing to participate and promote their excellence to candidates can still get their nomination material before it’s too late.

Individuals wishing to make nominations can visit the nomination form and share their thoughts on who should be considered for an award and why.

All nominated sites will then be put to our Short-listing panel to decide the finalists for each category. These sites will then be put to the Judging panel, who take time out of their busy schedule to examine and determine which sites perform best, from a candidates perspective.

We are delighted to announce that long standing friends of the NORAs are continuing their support by sponsoring our awards.  The Ladders, Actonomy, CV Library and BarrelFish (sister company of Perms Connect) have renewed their association with the awards for our tenth anniversary year.

In a move that reflects the ever evolving recruitment marketplace, HR Magazine is to be the Media Partner to the National Online Recruitment Awards, for their 10^th Anniversary year.  Siân Harrington, Editor, will also take a seat on the Judging Panel for 2010.

HR Magazine are firmly established as the definitive journal of record for the UK’s Human Resources sector, and as such have a breadth of readership which includes all major HR decision makers in Britain.  The award winning HR Publication of the Year, reaches even further still with its outstanding website; providing authoritative editorial news and insight on a continual basis.

Guest blog, from Keith Robinson.

Many thanks to Stephen for letting me write this article and doing such a great job with NORAuk.  I am a huge fan of recognizing and rewarding excellence in any sector. Having been shortlisted last year with my new launch Careersiteadvisor, I know the thrill and anticipation when you are at the event… you cannot beat it and Stephen “Thanks for setting these, up and continuing to run the NORAUK”.   Stephen asked me to write something on/about On-Line Recruitment so a short ramble;

To commemorate our tenth year, the National Online Recruitment Awards announces a unique special award for the “Recruitment Website of the Decade”. Each year, since its inception, the National Online Recruitment Awards seeks to identify the very best examples of excellence in the recruitment sector.  We do this by asking candidates themselves to nominate their favourite websites in each of the award categories, and to say why.  There are 12 award categories, recognising job boards, publications, recruitment agencies and employers.

Every year, for the past ten years, I get swamped with enquiries from recruitment agencies, job boards and employers, asking how to enter a website into the National Online Recruitment Awards.  “Where do I register, how do I apply, how much does it cost?” etc.  Well, let me answer all those questions, and show you how we’ve made it even simpler.

The essential foundation of the NORAs is built upon nominations, and not votes.  We ask candidates to nominate the recruitment websites they like best, in each of our 12 award categories.  This means that webmasters

Today we launch the nominations process for the 10^th annual National Online Recruitment Awards.  This historic anniversary for the definitive online recruitment industry awards confirms not only the longevity of the candidate-nominated awards, but also the prestige and acclaim accorded to the achievement of our Finalists and Winners.  Having a full decade under our belt, in such a young industry, means that we have a history that accurately maps the development of the sector, and how the industry has utilised internet technology to meet the individual needs of job seekers.

This may seem a no-brainer to anyone in the online recruitment industry, and perhaps even a preposterous question for me to ask, given my role in the sector over the past decade.

Commerce aside, it is perfectly possible to provide a service, where every single available vacancy is locatable via one solitary website.  How simple and convenient would that be for candidates?  If such a site existed, there would be no real need to trawl a multitude of job boards, searching, registering, applying again and again.  Surely then jobseekers would only have to register once in a great big CV Database.  Here too, employers could easily identify them, sure in the knowledge that these are the best available candidates to consider for each role?  “Crazy talk” you say? “It’ll never happen”.  

Throw open the shutters, open the windows, and take the sandbags from the doors. The storm of recession has past, and we can all get back to normal. Perhaps not quite.According to the Office of National Statistics, the UK economy experienced growth of 0.1% in the last quarter, and unemployment unexpectedly fell by 7,000 in December. Now that the snow has cleared away, there’s nothing to stop us. These figures may be great for confidence, but there is much to overcome still in the recruitment market.