Trinnovo Group the biggest winner of the night!
On Wednesday 20th October winners of the 2021 TIARA Recruitment Awards were revealed at a Gala Dinner for 450 guests at The Brewery in London, attended by CEOs and senior executives from the UK’s top 500 recruiters.
“Resilience is a fitting theme for the 2021 TIARA Recruitment Awards,” said Alex Evans, Programme Director TALiNT Partners. “The COVID-19 crisis hit the staffing sector hard in 2020, but those best able to optimise their talent, technology, and brand have taken advantage of new ways of working and competing for market leadership. This year’s winners are the champions of change that the industry needs to adapt and prosper to a constantly evolving talent market.”
This year’s Chair of Judges was leading human capital dealmaker Katie Folwell-Davies, Investment Director of Twenty 20 Capital. Commenting on this year’s finalists, she said: “Those companies that stood out for me were those that had invested through the pandemic – in headcount and technology – and had been able to demonstrate through their KPIs and their numbers the growth that was going to come from that investment.”
Jason Martin, Head of Strategy at Access Recruitment – headline partner of the TIARA Recruitment Awards – judged categories including the Best Recruitment Company to Work For and Recruitment Leader of the Year. “What has stood out in recent years, but even more so this year, was the focus on D&I and L&D,” he said. “I have really been impressed by the lengths that recruiters have gone to to invest in their people and the technology to support that. Those businesses have come out of lockdowns in the best shape to succeed over the next year.”
Trinnovo Group was the biggest winner of the night, taking the awards for Growth Recruitment Company of the Year, Best Recruitment Company to Work For with revenues between £20m and £50m, and Recruitment Leader of the Year for its founder and chairperson Ashley Lawrence.
Reed Global chairman James Reed was inducted into the TIARA Hall of Fame for his successful international expansion of Reed, spearheading the Keep Britain Working campaign in 2020, and for being a high-profile champion of the recruitment sector and its economic contribution.
The 2021 TIARA Recruitment Awards campaign was supported by headline partner Access Recruitment and supporting sponsors including: 6Cats International, Blackwood Capital, Clearwater International, Fore:Two Group, Gambit Corporate Finance, Grant Thornton, Mercury, Mishcon de Reya, Odro, Parasol Group, PurePro, Saffery Champness, Sonovate, Twenty20 Capital and VacancySoft.
The full list of TIARA Recruitment Award winners and highly commended finalists is as follows:
The Saffery Champness Hall of Fame Award
Winner: James Reed, Chairman, Reed Global
The PurePro Back Office Team of the Year
Winner: NRL
The Sonovate Client Service Award
Winner: Sigmar Recruitment
The Access Group Tech Transformation Award
Winner: Advantage Resourcing
Highly Commended: Omni
The Fore:Two Group Candidate Service Award
Winner: ersg
The Blackwood Capital Diversity & Inclusion Award
Winner: Goodman Masson
Highly Commended: Trinnovo Group
The Odro Innovation Award
Winner: La Fosse Associates
The VacancySoft Marketing Campaign of the Year
Winner: Signify Technology
The Clearwater Growth Recruitment Company of the Year
Winner: Trinnovo Group
The 6Cats International Recruitment Company of the Year
Winner: NES Fircroft
The Grant Thornton Specialist Recruitment Company of the Year
Winner: Signify Technology
Highly Commended: NHS Professionals
The Parasol Group Temporary Recruitment Company of the Year
Winner: TFS Healthcare
The Mercury Best Recruitment Company to work for (£5m to £20m)
Winner: The Barton Partnership
Highly Commended: Xpertise Recruitment
The Twenty20 Capital Best Recruitment Company to work for (£20m – £50m)
Winner: Trinnovo Group
Highly Commended: JCW Group
The Gambit Best Recruitment Company to Work For (£50m+)
Winner: Amoria Bond
The Mishcon de Reya Recruitment Leader of the Year
Winner: Ashley Lawrence, Chairperson, Trinnovo Group
