The eleventh annual National Online Recruitment Awards event was held on Wednesday 2nd November in Central London.  Our Judging Panel worked tirelessly to reduce the 66 Finalists in our 12 award categories to 12 very worthy Winners.  The full list of Winners is shown HERE.

Hosted by AlljobsUK.com and 1Job.co.uk for the eleventh year, the NORAs are the definitive awards for UK recruitment websites.   Now in our second decade of the NORAs, we are still pursuing excellence, on behalf of jobseekers online.

Photos from the 2011 event will be posted on this website shortly.

This is seen by many as the Flagship award in recognition of the more popular generalist recruitment websites in the UK.  Previous winners have included Jobsite, Monster, Fish4Jobs and Totaljobs.

The NORA for 2011 was awarded to Monster.

This award is sponsored by Actonomy.

This by far our most competitive award category.  By specialising in a particular niche industry sector or profession, these sites are able to deliver a service that is tailored to the needs of their target market.  Most competitive in the UK are the engineering, accountancy and finance, secretarial, and in particular the I.T. sector.  Previous winners of this award have included Jobserve, JustEngineers, eFinancialCareers, JobsGoPublic and CWJobs.

This 2011 award was againwon by OnlyMarketingJobs.com

Regional recruitment websites are often the very best way that jobseekers can identify live vacancies with local employers, or advertised by local recruitment firms.  This is a sector that has seen phenomenal growth in recent years, with several major players contesting many small sites.  Offering a dedicated regional yet generalist service, these sites are often the recruitment site of choice for many candidates.  Whilst hotly contested, our most successful NORA winner, S1Jobs, covering Scotland, has previously won this award for an unprecedented six years in a row.

However, in 2011 the award was won by STV Jobs, also covering the Scottish area.

The UK has the the world’s greatest network of professional recruitment firms.  With a combined turnover of over £20 billion, the modern recruitment agency is embedded in our employment culture.  There are many large firms, with a national presence, that truly excel in delivering websites that can compete with many of the larger job sites themselves.  Previous winners have included Search Consultancy, Badenoch & Clark, Reed plc, Anders Elite, and Advanced Resource Managers.

Spencer Ogden were our deserving 2011 winners.

This award is sponsored by Daxtra.

Of the 15,000 or so recruitment firms in the UK, some 80% of them could be described as small agencies; meaning having less than 3 branches.  However some of these companies consistently show true innovation, when it comes to fully exploiting the Internet, and building great websites for candidates.  Previous winners have included PFJ, Maxim, McCarthy Recruitment and Stopgap.

The 2011 NORA was won for the second time by marketing recruitment agency, Dylan.

The greatest spread between excellence and ineptitude in online recruitment lies with the employers of the UK workforce.  However, whilst the woeful efforts of many are cause for alarm, the outstanding progress made by our NORA nominees is deservedly recognised here.  Past winners have included, Astrazeneca, Whitbread, The West Midlands Police Force, and Innocent Drinks.

The 2010 award for Best Major Employer’s Website went, for the third time, to British Army Jobs.

This award is sponsored by The Ladders.

We recognise the merits of large and small / medium sized employers with separate awards, as they can be very different types os sites indeed. We can see clearly now, that small employers are taking the fight to their larger siblings, when it comes to attracting the very best talent.  Not only that, but they are very often much more able to project the personality of their firm, in a way that large companies can only dream of.

In 2011, this award was won by Innocent Drinks.

This award is sponsored by Monster.

For over 100 years, traditional print advertising was the only way to publicise a vacancy, and the UK newspaper titles, large and small, had been the medium of choice. The past decade has seen a revolution, where every major newspaper has it’s own job board as an integral part of it’s online offering. Some of the very best examples of candidate engagement are to be found amongst the contenders for this award. Previous winners have included The Times Online, The Telegraph, and The Guardian.

The 2011 award was again presented to Guardian Jobs.

This award is sponsored by IDIBU.

The UK has an inordinate number of trade publications, all catering to their own specific industry and professional sectors. The introduction of online recruitment meant that they were extremely well placed to cater for both candidates and advertisers in a uniquely targeted way.

The 2011 award was won for the second time by TES, The Times Educational Supplement.

This award is sponsored by Broadbean.