UK Recruitment Blog of the Year 2014 WINNERS

This is our eight year of running the UK Recruitment Blog of the Year Awards and we’ve had a brilliant range of blogs to judge for 2014.  Before announcing the winners I want to thank everyone for their nominations as well as the judging panel and blog sponsors; TempBuddy.

This year we took well over 200 nominations whittled them down to 19 finalists (you should check out this list as they are all excellent sites). So, now onto the winners:

The Winner of the Recruitment Agency Blog

The Candidate

The Candidate is both the name of the blog and the digital media marketing specific recruitment business behind it. The blog is contributed to by the whole team as they share their thoughts and experiences of recruitment along with their passion for the digital media sector.  It’s a mix of industry news, jobseeker tips, industry snippets and event information.

The Winner of Individual Recruiter Blog:

approachthemarket

This is the second year running that Sarah Cooper has won this award.  She has over 15 years Recruitment experience both in-house and agency. Her blog is tailored towards the jobseekers but she also blogs at http://sarahloucooper.com/selfology. Her vast range of subjects covered includes jobseeking tips, internet sourcing techniques, psychometrics and what recruitment agencies are – and are not!

A close second in this category was the Eden Changes blog.

The Winner of the Corporate Recruitment HR Blog:

HR Gem

The HR Gem blog is described as “Musings on work, HR and the like”.  It’s authored by Gemma Reucroft and her posts cover a diverse and very interesting range of topics including behaviours, social media, HR, future of work and recruitment.

A close second in this category was the Change Effect blog from Neil Morrison.  Our winner from last year, The HR Juggler, was also highly commended in this ccategory

The Winner of the Recruitment Industry Supplier blog:

This category is one of the hardest to judge; we had a “shortlist” of nearly 40 blogs!  However, we do have a clear winner with

Sirona Says

Andy Headworth, who was joint winner in this category last year,  writes the Sirona Says blog which is a massive information resource for anyone in the recruitment space. His knowledge of recruitment strategy, candidate attraction and content marketing strategy as well as social media technologies is unsurpassed and he delivers that knowledge in an interesting and meaningful way to his audience making for an easy to read blog.

Other highly ranked sites in this category include the Barclay Jones blog written by Lisa Jones and her team and the T Recs blog authored by veteran blogger Mervyn Dinnen (who was joint winner in this category last year).  Two other sites that ranked highly were the Bubble Jobs and FireFish blogs – both notable as sites written not by ‘social media experts’ but by recruitment industry suppliers using content as a way to engage with clients and prospects’.

Congratulations to all the winners and to the finalists.

Roderick Smyth of award sponsors TempBuddy made this comment on the awards which I truly echo “TempBuddy are exceptionally proud to be supporting active bloggers in the recruitment industry, believing that the open discourse and sharing of opinion cultivated by active blogging is one of the things that sets our industry apart from others. We are truly impressed by the number of entries and time and effort that all of the contributors have invested in creating really great quality content and look forward to reading many more in the future. I know the judges had a very difficult time selecting a winner in each of the categories with so many to choose from, and truly all deserve credit for their contribution to the global knowledge pool.”

I will be contacting all the winners this week to ensure they get their trophies.