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The rules for the first National Online Recruitment Awards are as follows.

The categories for which public nominations are invited are:

1. Best General Jobsite - definition - A purely online jobsite advertising vacancies across a wide range of disciplines throughout the UK.  These sites must operate independently of recruitment firms or publications. 

2. Best Specialist Jobsite - definition - A purely online jobsite advertising vacancies within a defined range of disciplines.  These sites must operate independently of recruitment firms or publications. 

3. Best Regional Jobsite - A purely online jobsite advertising vacancies within a defined region or geographical area.  These sites must operate independently of recruitment firms or publications. 

4. Best National Recruitment Agency Website - The website of a recognised recruitment firm which has more than 3 branches.

5. Best Small Recruitment Agency Website - The website of a recognised recruitment firm which has 3 branches or less.

6. Best Employer’s Website - The recruitment section of a website for an employer.

7. Best Online Recruitment Section by a Consumer Publication - The recruitment section of a website of a consumer publication such as a newspaper, magazine or similar.

8. Best Online Recruitment Section by a Trade Publication - The recruitment section of a specialist trade or industry publication or similar.

9. Best Employment Advice Website - A website whose principal purpose is to provide career and employment advice to candidates.

Anyone can nominate any site any number of times.  These nominations will be considered by AlljobsUK.com and reduced to a shortlist of 5 nominations for each of these 9 categories.  You may nominate a website, or websites, for each award category by clicking HERE.  Nominations close on 26 September and the finalists will be announced after 30 September.  Award winners will be announced on 24 October.

The criteria to be used in judging will include:

1. Ease of use, design, layout & speed.

2. Volume of available vacancies.

3. Volume of claimed visitors.

4. Available facilities for jobseekers.

5. Prominence in targeted market.

Sites will be judged from the point of view of a jobseeker, and what benefits candidates best.

Shortlisted sites are entitled to display this logo on their site and literature.

An independent panel of JUDGES will use the same criteria and their knowledge of the online recruitment sector to select a winner in each category.

The winners in each category are entitled to display this logo on their site and literature. 

Click here for Awards graphics and logos