DEVELOPMENT AWARDS


Congratulations to all the winners from this year’s Development Awards ceremony, which took place on 14th March. In case you haven’t heard yet, the winners from the evening were…


Preparation for work by Higher Education – Single Initiative Winner: The College of Law Highly Commended: University of York and University of Leicester


Preparation for work by Higher Education – Overall Strategy Winner: Aston University


Graduate Induction (Under 50 Graduates) Winner: National Grid Highly Commended: Gazprom Marketing & Trading


Graduate Induction (Over 50 Graduates) Winner: Accenture Highly Commended: Transport for London


Innovation in Business Led Development Winner: Simmons & Simmons Highly Commended: Citi


Strategic Alignment (Under 50 Graduates) Winner: National Grid


Strategic Alignment (Over 50 Graduates) Winner: Accenture Highly Commended: IBM


Post Programme Development Winner: EDF Energy


Supplier Contribution to the Business Winner: Talent & Potential Highly Commended: Interaction Learning & Development


We will be taking a more in-depth look at the victors in the next edition of Graduate Recruiter, which is out at the beginning of June. We would once again like to thank Graduate Prospects for sponsoring the event.


Neil Armstrong has left his role as a Talent Manager for Boots’ IT function, to become a Talent Manager responsible for managing a team of recruitment experts in the Talent Pipeline space (Graduate, Apprenticeship, Year In Industry, and Internal Talent Programmes), who will attract and recruit the best candidates for these Programmes.


Adrian Thomas has recently left his position as Head of Resourcing at Network Rail, to focus on his role as Chair of The Recruitment Society, an organisation formed in 1979 that represents the whole breadth of the recruitment industry – from resource planning, through attraction and selection to training and payroll process. Adrian will continue to sit on the AGR Board of Directors.


Will Slemmings has joined the IT team at GRB after graduating from the University of Brighton and working in teaching and management at a language school. As a Resourcer, he will be responsible for sourcing candidates for technical and non-technical IT roles and will


be working with companies of varying sizes.


Rhiannon Jackson has joined GRB’s Graduate IT Desk as a Resourcer after graduating from Sussex University. She will be sourcing software developers, as well as candidates for technical consulting and support roles.


Dan Prosser has joined the Analytical Experienced Hire Division of GRB following his time spent working in a sales role and travelling around South East Asia upon graduation in 2011. As a Resourcer, he will specialise in sourcing high calibre post-graduates across a range of


industry sectors.


Sepha Brook has moved from Barclays Bank as Graduate Recruitment AVP to the position of Graduate Programme Manager at L’Oreal. The role entails the end to end management of four different schemes across 13 business functions.


Have you changed role recently, and what to tell the world about it? Or have you hired a great new team member, who you want to introduce to the AGR membership? Tell us about it!


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It is an invaluable service for recruiters looking to browse the range of services on offer in confidence and in their own time.


The directory is accessible from the AGR website homepage - www.agr.org.uk


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