If you can take the time to apply for these kinds of employer awards, you can use them to help attract the best candidates when recruiting
With tools like Glassdoor and Indeed encouraging jobseekers to research potential new employers, it's important that you make a great first impression. There are lots of great companies out there that have a great service/product, but don’t have the time to research and enter competitions. This is more true for HR departments that might have very high levels of employee engagement, and offer a great work environment, but they just don’t have the time to research the Employer Awards that they could run for.
If you can take the time to apply for these kinds of employer awards, you can use them to help attract the best candidates when recruiting. Here's an example of how the winner of the 2021 UK's Best Mid-sized Companies to work for, use their award on the jobs page on their website:
We know you're busy, so we thought we would do the research for you! See below for a list of some of the most prominent awards that our research found. If you have any feedback or suggestions for this list, please feel free to contact me on adrian@hireful.co.uk
name of awards hosted by
Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For The Sunday Times
Great Place to Work Awards Great Place to Work
Top Employers for Working Families Working Families
SME National Business Awards SME National Business Awards
UK Excellence Awards BQF
Best Places to Work UK Glassdoor
The Peer Awards for Excellence The Peer Awards for Excellence
Profit Track 100 The Sunday Times
Building Public Trust Awards PWC
British Small Business Awards smallbusiness.co.uk & growthbusiness.co.uk
Top Track 100 The Sunday Times
National Business Awards UK Lloyds Bank
Top Track 250 The Sunday Times
Top Employers UK Top Employers Institute
The National Diversity Awards National Diversity Awards
Caterer.com People Awards Caterer.com
The British LGBT Awards Natwest
Britain’s Most Admired Companies BMAC
The National Undergraduate Employability Awards NUE Awards
