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.
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
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.
