L’Oréal wins top award at National Graduate Recruitment Awards

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L’Oréal wins the top award at Europe’s largest graduate recruitment award ceremony.

The annual TARGETjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards took place last week at the Grosvenor House on Park Lane. The awards were presented by Larry Henry and around 1,400 guest attended the event from the world of graduate recruitment. The headline sponsor of the awards ceremony was National Grid.

L’Oréal beat off tough competitors TeachFirst, Barrett Developments, Freshfields Bruckhaud derringer and previous winners Enterprise Rent-A-Car and IBM, to walk away with the prestigious Graduate Employer of the Year Award. A total of 28 awards were handed out over the evening including best website, bets marketing campaign, best school leaver programme and best innovation on campus.

In addition to the top prize, L’Oréal also won two of the Marketing Campaign Awards and were voted most popular fat-moving consumer goods (FMCG) employer.

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The other stand out performance of the night came from Barclays, who won all three awards for recruiters targeting students from schools and colleges.

 

The TARGETjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards are student-driven graduate recruitment awards. A record number of 40,000 students and recent graduates from 120 different universities took part in the national survey, conducted each year by international research firm trendence, which identified the most popular graduate recruiters in 14 sectors of work.

 

Here is a full list of winners at the TARGETjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards 2015:

Most popular graduate recruiter in accounting and financial management

PwC

Most popular graduate recruiter in banking, insurance and financial services

HSBC Bank plc

Most popular graduate recruiter in construction, civil engineering and surveying

Arup

Most popular graduate recruiter in consulting award

McKinsey & Company

Most popular graduate recruiter in consumer goods – manufacturing and marketing

L’Oréal

Most popular graduate recruiter in energy and utilities

BP

Most popular graduate recruiter in engineering, design and manufacture

Rolls-Royce

Most popular graduate recruiter in hospitality, leisure and tourism

Hilton Worldwide

Most popular graduate recruiter in investment banking and investment

J.P. Morgan

Most popular graduate recruiter in IT and technology

Google

Most popular graduate recruiter in law

Allen & Overy LLP

Most popular graduate recruiter in logistics, transport and supply chain

British Airways

Most popular graduate recruiter in  public sector

MI6 – Secret Intelligence Service

Most popular graduate recruiter in retail

John Lewis Partnership

Most popular graduate recruiter in scientific research and development

GlaxoSmithKline

Best use of social media

Army

Best apprenticeship programme

Barclays

Best school-leaver programme

Barclays

Apprentice of the year

Laura Webber – Barclays

Best student marketing campaign (for organisations recruiting fewer than 50 graduates a year)

L’Oréal

Best student marketing campaign (for organisations recruiting more than 50 graduates a year)

Accenture

Best graduate recruitment website

Bloomberg

Best undergraduate internship/vacation programme

IBM UK

Innovation on campus

Credit Suisse

Rising star

Max Pullen, Mott MacDonald

Diversity recruitment

National Grid

AGCAS award for excellence in careers and employability service engagement

Phoenix Education Trust

Advancement of social mobility in graduate recruitment

Enterprise Rent-A-Car

 

Graduate employer of the year

L’Oréal

 

Title image credit: TARGETjobs

Amie Filcher is an editorial assistant at HRreview.

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