Success & Innovation at 2016 gradireland Graduate Recruitment Awards

April 28th saw almost 600 of Ireland’s graduate recruiters, course providers and stakeholders come together in the Round Room of Dublin’s Mansion House to celebrate achievement and innovation in the graduate recruitment area, on this the tenth anniversary of the gradireland Graduate Recruitment Awards. 2016 saw the largest ever Graduate Recruitment Awards, conducted in partnership with the Association of Higher Education Careers Services (AHECS) and the Higher Education Authority (HEA). The 2016 event attracted over 160 submissions from more than 60 organisations and almost 7,500 students participated in the vote to determine Ireland’s most popular graduate recruiter.

Opening the evening’s proceedings, gradireland Director Mark Mitchell said; “More organisations than ever are investing in defined graduate programmes. Graduate programmes that lapses during the recession are being reinstated and reimagined, this has led to increasing competition and a different set of challenges for graduate recruiters, careers services and students.” Mark also spoke of the importance of partnerships and invited Professor Maria Hinfelaar, former President of LIT, to give the keynote address on the evening.
Hosted by RTE’s Brian Dobson, the awards ranged throughout the graduate recruitment spectrum and also acknowledged achievement in the postgraduate course provision area. Indeed this area saw the first awards of the evening, the AHECS awards, being presented, the winners being:

Employability Award (Small and Medium Services)
Winner: National College of Ireland

Employability Award (Large Services)
Winner: Ulster University

Engagement Award
Joint Winners: Deloitte and PwC

The award winners on the night represented a broad spectrum of Irish and international industry. PwC landed the award for Employer of the Year, while KPMG was named Ireland’s Most Popular Graduate Recruiter in the student vote, displacing Google, who had held top spot for several years. Abbvie was judged to have the Best Specialist/Professional Graduate Training & Development Programme and Abbott was awarded with Best Internship Programme. The dynamic of the graduate recruitment sector was evident everywhere in the room. Stakeholders in industry rubbed shoulders with course providers, tasked with providing the next generation of talent. Commenting on the awards, Mark Mitchell, gradireland Director, added: “These awards are now firmly established as a key event in the year, enabling all of the stakeholders in the graduate recruitment process to create important networks as well as to celebrate success.”

The full list of winners (and silver and bronze awards) at the gradireland Graduate Recruitment Awards and Postgraduate Course of the Year Awards 2016:

The most popular graduate recruiters

Accountancy/Professional Services
Winner: KPMG

Banking, investment & financial services
Winner: Bank of Ireland

Consulting
Winner: Accenture

Engineering
Winner: Intel

FMCG
Winner: Jameson – Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard

IT
Winner: Google

Law
Winner: A&L Goodbody

Logistics, transport & supply chain management
Winner: Aer Lingus

Online retail services and telecoms
Winner: Amazon

Retail
Winner: Lidl

Public service/business organisations
Winner: Department of Education and Skills

Science
Winner: Boston Scientific

Utilities, Energy, Renewables
Winner: ESB

Ireland’s Most Popular Graduate Recruiter
Winner: KPMG

Best Graduate Recruitment Website
Winner: ESB

Silver: Aldi

Bronze: Jameson – Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard

Best Innovation on Campus
Winner: Deloitte

Silver: KPMG

Bronze: Intel

Best Student Marketing Campaign
Winner: Jameson-Irish Distillers

Silver: Glanbia

Bronze: PwC

Best Graduate Training & Development Programmes
Specialist/Professional Training programme

Winner: Abbvie

Silver: Abbott

Bronze: PwC

Business/General Training & Development programme
Winner: Glanbia

Silver: Jameson – Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard

Bronze: EMC

Best Internship Programme
Winner: Abbott

Silver: Abbvie

Bronze: KPMG

gradireland Diversity Recruitment Award

Winner: Enterprise rent-a-car

Silver: Abbott

Bronze: KPMG

 

POSTGRADUATE COURSE OF THE YEAR – BUSINESS, SPONSORED BY LIDL
Winner: DCU, MSc in Human Resource Management

 

POSTGRADUATE COURSE OF THE YEAR – ENGINEERING
Winner: UCC, MEngSc Information Technology in Architecture, Engineering and Construction

 

POSTGRADUATE COURSE OF THE YEAR – IT
Winner: UCC, MSc Information Systems for Business Performance

 

POSTGRADUATE COURSE OF THE YEAR – SCIENCE
Winner: NUI Galway, MSc Biotechnology

 

BEST NEW COURSE, SPONSORED BY JAMESON IRISH DISTILLERS
Winner: Maynooth University, Masters in Design Innovation

 

Graduate Employee of the Year
Overall winners
Robert Beirne, LIDL
Maxim Romancovs, HEDGESERV

 

Graduate Employer of the Year
PwC

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