Award Categories & Criteria
Awards, which will be evaluated by a judging panel of recruiting industry experts and practitioners, will be given out in the following categories:
- Best College Recruiting Program (preview questions)
- Best Corporate Careers Website (preview questions)
- Best Diversity Program (preview questions)
- Best Employee Referral Program (preview questions)
- Best Employer Brand (preview questions)
- Best Retention Program/Practices (preview questions)
- Most Strategic Use of Technology (preview questions)
- Recruiting Department/Function of the Year (in this category, the judges may also consider companies that did not apply)(preview questions)
- Lifetime Achievement Award (in this category, the judges may also consider individuals that did not apply) (read more)
Awards Criteria
As far as criteria: Judges are instructed to make a decision based on the questions in the application. Judges should turn around the questions and ask themselves to what degree the applicant has succeeded in that area.
So let's say the question on the application is, "Show evidence of senior management support for diversity activities." Judges should ask themselves, "to what degree is there evidence of senior management support for diversity activities?" Similarly, if a question asks applicants whether their diversity initiatives have created more demand among applicants, judges should ask themselves whether, based on the applicant's answer, the diversity initiative has created more demand among applicants.
Generally speaking, many of the past winners have met business needs and accomplished business goals, rather than just improving recruiting functions or recruiting departments. They've also tended to have good data to demonstrate their success. On top of that, they've usually done fairly innovative or new things rather than successful initiatives but ones that are behind the curve or should have been much sooner.