26 October, 2007 – Jobsite are pleased to announce the finalists for the RecruitRank Awards 2007. Recognising best practice and quality customer service in recruitment agencies, the RecruitRank Awards are the only awards in the industry where finalists and winners are chosen by the feedback from job candidates and not a panel of industry judges.

Launched by leading online recruiter Jobsite (www.jobsite.co.uk) in November 2005, RecruitRank allows candidates to feedback anonymously on the quality of an agency’s service after they have applied for a vacancy advertised by them on Jobsite. Recruiters have personal, private access to this free market research and it enables them to monitor and, if necessary, improve their service offering. The finalists within each category of the Awards were selected through a culmination of this feedback from over 40,000 candidates over the last 12 months.

This year’s RecruitRank Awards sees the addition of two new categories; Most Improved Large Recruiter and Most Improved Small Recruiter. These new awards recognise those agencies who have worked hard over the last 12 months to improve the service levels that they offer to candidates.

Many of the finalists appear in more than one category, which proves that it is possible for recruitment agencies to provide an all-round excellent service to candidates. The finalists are listed in alphabetical order in each category:

Best Candidate Communications: Large Agency
Crone Corkill
Encore Technical Solutions Ltd
Hinton Lea Associates Limited
Meta-Morphose International (Sales)
Momentum Recruitment
Networx Ltd
Protemp – Hounslow
SRG
Wynnwith Engineering Co Ltd (Aviation)
Wynnwith Engineering Co Ltd (Technical)

Best Understanding of Candidate Needs: Large Agency
Advanced Resource Managers (DES)
Advanced Resource Managers (T&I)
Encore Technical Solutions Ltd
Hinton Lea Associates Limited
Meta-Morphose International (Sales)
Momentum Recruitment
Protemp – Hounslow
Reed Scientific
SRG
Wynnwith Engineering Co Ltd (Technical)

Best Industry Knowledge: Large Agency
Advanced Resource Managers (DES)
Advanced Resource Managers (T&I)
Hinton Lea Associates Limited
Meta-Morphose International (Sales)
Momentum Recruitment
Protemp – Hounslow
Reed Scientific
SRG
Wynnwith Engineering Co Ltd (Aviation)
Wynnwith Engineering Co Ltd (Technical)

Best Large RecruiterAdvanced Resource Managers (T&I)
Hinton Lea Associates Limited
Meta-Morphose International (Sales)
Momentum Recruitment
Networx Ltd
Protemp – Hounslow
Reed Scientific
SRG
Wynnwith Engineering Co Ltd (Aviation)
Wynnwith Engineering Co Ltd (Technical)

Most Improved Large Recruiter
Advanced Resource Managers (T&I)
Alliance Consulting
ASC Connections Limited
CCS Recruitment
Hinton Lea Associates Limited
Mane Contract Services Limited
Networx Ltd
Parc UK Ltd
Wynnwith Engineering Co Ltd (Aviation)
Wynnwith Engineering Co Ltd (Technical)

Best Candidate Communications: Small Agency
Big Red Recruitment Limited
CELECTUS Recruitment Ltd
DJS Executive Search Limited
Fuel Recruitment Ltd
ITS European
Kinetic PLC (Gateshead)
Michael Page Retail – Berkshire
Roevin Management (Nottingham)
SBCS
The Forge HR Group

Best Understanding of Candidate Needs: Small Agency
CELECTUS Recruitment Ltd
Excel Technical Resourcing Solutions Ltd
ITS European
Jonathan Lee Recruitment – Product Eng
Kinetic PLC (Gateshead)
Meridian Business Support (Chester Tech)
Response Personnel Ltd
Roevin Management (Nottingham)
The Forge HR Group
York

Best Industry Knowledge: Small Agency
CELECTUS Recruitment Ltd
Giraffe Recruitment Ltd
ITS European
Jonathan Lee Recruitment – Product Eng
Kinetic PLC (Gateshead)
Meridian Business Support (Chester Tech)
Response Personnel Ltd
Roevin Management (Nottingham)
The Forge HR Group
York

Best Small Recruiter
Big Red Recruitment Limited
CELECTUS Recruitment Ltd
DJS Executive Search Limited
EMS Sigma Limited
Fuel Recruitment Ltd
ITS European
Jonathan Lee Recruitment – Product Eng
Michael Page Retail – Berkshire
Roevin Management (Nottingham)
The Forge HR Group

Most Improved Small Recruiter
CELECTUS Recruitment Ltd
Excel Technical Resourcing Solutions Ltd
Executive Futures Limited
HSE Network
ITS European
Kinetic PLC (Gateshead)
Kramer Westfield
M-Tech Europe Limited
Response Personnel Ltd
Robert Alan Partnership Limited

The Awards, which are in their second year, will be held on 8th November at Kent House, Knightsbridge. The Awards host is Sahar Hashemi, founder of the UK’s first high street coffee chain; Coffee Republic, and author of the UK’s best selling business book ‘Anyone Can Do It’. As a successful entrepreneur Sahar is well placed to speak on changing consumer attitudes and how businesses need to respond to this. Her insights match nicely with the objectives of RecruitRank and her speech will be of high value and relevance to the recruitment consultants present.

Commenting on the awards, Keith Potts, CEO of Jobsite says:
“Research we’ve done this year shows that candidates are increasingly keen to give feedback but they also expect this feedback to be listened to and will go elsewhere if they have a bad experience. The finalists of the RecruitRank Awards are those agencies that candidates say have given them a great candidate experience and have helped to make job hunting a little easier and more enjoyable – both underlying objectives of Jobsite and RecruitRank. The finalist agencies should be very proud and we wish them all the best of luck on the evening.”

Notes to editors:

1. About RecruitRank
RecruitRank is a feedback system which enables the job hunter to comment on their experiences of working with recruitment agencies. Each time they apply for a vacancy they can comment on how the process went. Jobsite collates this information and provides it to the management teams of the agencies each month, enabling them to use the information to monitor and improve their service levels where necessary. The 10 companies with the highest rated customer service and best practice will feature in our RecruitRank Top 10 on www.jobsite.co.uk. Jobsite’s aim with RecruitRank is to empower the job hunter by providing them with a voice in the recruitment process. This, in turn, enables Jobsite to provide recruiters with valuable customer service data.

2. About the RecruitRank Awards
The RecruitRank Awards recognise best practice and first class customer service within the recruitment industry. The awards themselves are an industry first as the winners are voted for by candidate feedback collected over a twelve month period and not a judging panel. The inaugural RecruitRank Award ceremony was held during an exclusive event at top London venue, Il Bottaccio, on 9th November 2006. The 2007 Awards are being held at Kent House, Knightsbridge, on 8th November with Simon Woodroffe as Awards host.

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