It’s the morning after the Seek awards! Usually, this occasion is combined with a stinking hangover and a few bacon butties from the Right Track. However, this year the awards were beamed virtually to 150+ screens across NZ. This occurred yesterday 1 pm which scuppered our usual process. The blog faithful know we like to predict the results the afternoon before the event, we then get spruced up for a night of glitz, glamor, and gratuitous drinking. Once we update the blog with the winners, we publish what is a tap-in of a blog. This year things were a bit different. With a 20-hour gap between the winners being announced and the blog being posted, there’s the temptation to seem all-knowing, conveniently picking the winners of each category so there’s no doubt fingers are on pulses. Thankfully Sean in his infinite wisdom did a predictions post ages ago before the event was moved to the cybersphere, you can read that in full here. You may think that with the results already out of the bag is this blog-worthy? But, if you’re not nominated, you only really find out through celebration/commiseration posts. There isn’t a place where the info is collected in one spot with definitive proof that Sean can, in fact, be wrong. So without further ado…
Small Recruitment Agency of the Year (1-5 full-time consultants)
Finalists
Action Personnel
40 Foot
Artemis Executive Recruitment
Greenlight Recruitment
McLaren Associates Ltd
Sean’s prediction: Action Personnel
Actual winner: 40 Foot
Medium Recruitment Agency of the Year (6-19 full-time consultants)
Archway Recruitment
Frog Recruitment
Grada Recruitment
Potentia Recruitment
Talent Army
Sean’s prediction: Grada Recruitment
Actual Winner: Potentia Recruitment
Large Recruitment Agency of the Year (20+ full-time consultants)
Find Recruitment
JOYN
Madison Recruitment
Talent
Sean’s prediction: Talent
Actual winner: Talent (phew! He needed that)
Most Innovative Agency of the Year
coHired
Eighty4 Recruitment
Hunter Campbell
Rice Consulting
Sprout NZ
Sean’s prediction: Hunter Campbell
Actual winner: coHired
Best Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative
Accordant Group – The Work Collective
Action Personnel
Dynamix Recruitment
Finite920
Potentia Recruitment
Sean’s prediction: Potentia Recruitment
Actual Winner: Potentia Recruitment
Recruitment Leader of the Year
Erin Woods, Action Personnel
Rob Woodward, Find Recruitment
Sophie Te Huia, Talent Network
Toni Lea-Morice, Alexander James
Troy Hammond, Talent Army
Sean’s prediction: Troy Hammond, Talent Army
Actual Winner: Rob Woodward, Find Recruitment
Excellence in Candidate Engagement
Alignz Recruitment
AWF
ep.education
HOME Recruitment Ltd
McLaren Associates Ltd
Sean’s prediction: Ep.Eduction
Actual winner: AWF
Recruitment Consultant of the Year
Matt Greenwood, Archway Recruitment
Scott Burnett, Rice Consulting
Shristi Vinayagan, Geneva Healthcare
Sinead Lunt, Talent Army
Tom Stevens, Find Recruitment
Sean’s prediction: Matt Greenwood, Archway Recruitment
Actual winner: Sinead Lunt, Talent Army
Hats off to all the finalists and winners, and to Sean for putting his proverbial “cock on the block” for his predictions. Fingers crossed the next SEEK awards will be an event similar to the Pow Wow, a room full of recruiters getting merry.
