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After months of nominations, shortlisting, and judging, the winners of this year’s 10th annual National Online Recruitment Awards have been announced.  The new venue was Sway London, in Covent Garden, and on Thurday 4th November, there wasn’t anywhere else any self-respecting online recruiter would have wanted to be.

Everyone who is anyone was part of the over 300-strong audience, including those from 66 Finalists for the 13 awards.  The 13th award was a particular high point, as it recognised the recruitment website that had made the greatest contribution to online recruitment since the NORAs began.

You would be amazed at how many people are involved in the National Online Recruitment Awards.  As the most commonly identified person, I am always at pains to point out that there is an army of people who all make their own essential contribution to the NORAs.

To begin with, the jobseekers, on whose behalf we launched the awards, and who this year made almost 28,000 nominations for the recruitment websites they liked best (and told us why).  

We are extremely proud to announce the Finalists for this year’s tenth National Online Recruitment Awards.  Now covering a full decade, the NORAs have become established as the standard by which all recruitment websites are measured.  Uniquely, the awards are initially nominated by job seekers themselves, in order that the perspective of those who utilise each site remains paramount.  This year we received almost 28,000 nominations for 592 separate websites.  http://www.norauk.com/finalists-2010

Today, Friday 10^th September, marks the last day of nominations for this year’s National Online Recruitment Awards.  Nominations closed at 5:00pm, and we received 776 on the last day alone.  As ever, the response from the public has been outstanding.

Additionally this year, we have introduced a new method of nominating your favourite recruitment websites, where we asked for extra feedback, giving the reasons for your nominations.  

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;