NORAS – National Online Recruitment Awards

I have a passion for, and a personal investment in, online recruitment, so I was very proud to have been asked to sit on the panel of consulting judges to help shortlist the NORAS (National Online Recruitment Awards).

Now in their ninth year, the NORAs are seen as the standard by which recruitment websites are measured.  The awards are initially nominated by job seekers themselves.  This year they received almost 25,000 nominations for 654 separate websites.

The finalists were assessed by a selection panel of industry experts (well, and me), from a candidate’s point of view, to arrive at the shortlist of sites across 12 categories.

As an industry insider it was an interesting exercise to see what boundaries are being pushed to help companies recruit better for themselves. Some interesting propositions from small businesses, but the traditional recruitment agency space felt very dated.

Will be interesting to see who actual winners are later this year. I’ll keep you posted…