2026 Finalists
Recognition, Credibility & Prestige
The TIARAs set a new standard of excellence for the Recruitment, RPO/MSP and Talent Solution sector’s crowning achievements across 14 award categories.
Five Reasons to attend
- Reward your team and celebrate your achievements together
- Gain recognition for your amazing work amongst other industry leaders at the event
- Insight into what set the winners apart and why they won their awards
- Meet our judging panel of leaders, advisers and senior industry executives
- Opportunity to network with Recruitment and Talent Solutions leaders
Recruitment Finalists
The growth recruitment company of the year
- This award recognises a high-growth recruitment business that has a track record of sustainable growth in sales, profit, headcount, and client base in context of size and stage of scale.
- Our 2026 Finalists are:
- Clarity Partners
- Talenza
- Three Recruitment
- Valiant Recruitment
The People2.0 candidate experience Award
- This award recognises excellence in the way candidates are sourced, managed and supported to ensure the best outcome.
- Our 2026 Finalists are:
- AIM Recruitment Solutions
- Curamoir Healthcare Recruitment
- HOBAN Recruitment
- North Star Partners
- Tradewind Australia
- Verse
- Zone IT Solutions
The Devyce specialist Recruitment company of the year (Under 50 Employees)
- This award recognises market leaders in a specialist sector who can demonstrate the best growth, depth of knowledge, and differentiation from competitors.
- Our 2026 Finalists are:
- Civitas Talent
- Curamoir Healthcare Recruitment
- Entrée Early Years Recruitment
- MJD Recruitment
- North Star Partners
- Proclinical
- Recruitment Labs
- Zone IT Solutions
The Devyce specialist Recruitment company of the year (Over 50 Employees)
- This award recognises market leaders in a specialist sector who can demonstrate the best growth, depth of knowledge, and differentiation from competitors.
- Our 2026 Finalists are:
- Davidson
- Globe 24-7
- Medfuture
- NES Fircroft
- Talenza
- Tradewind Australia
The Recruitment brand award
- This award recognises the best use of a brand in a recruitment company to gain a competitive edge based on measurable improvement in candidate, client, and employee engagement.
- Our 2026 Finalists are:
- Evolve Talent
- NES Fircroft
- North Star Partners
- Valiant Recruitment
- Verse
The Recruitment consultant of the year
- This award celebrates an exceptional individual who has demonstrated outstanding performance, professionalism, and impact within the staffing industry.
- Our 2026 Finalists are:
- Kate Chase, Senior Partner, Davidson
- Chelsey Costello, Senior Principal Consultant - Cyber Security, Talenza
- Emily Field, Principal Recruitment Consultant, WOW Recruitment
Talent Solutions Categories
The best talent attraction strategy
- This award celebrates the most impactful talent attraction strategy, whether engaging early career talent, elevating a client’s employer brand or providing a positive candidate experience.
- Our 2026 Finalists are:
- Chandler Macleod
- Davidson
- Kelly Outsourcing and Consulting Group
The contingent workforce solutions provider of the year
- This award recognises providers of contingent workforce solutions demonstrating the greatest innovation in contingent workforce sourcing and management, and the highest level of client service and supply chain engagement.
- Our 2026 Finalists are:
- Chandler Macleod
- CXC
- Hays Specialist Recruitment (Australia)
- Kelly Outsourcing and Consulting Group
- Zone IT Solutions
The long-term partnership award
- This award looks for evidence of genuine partnership over a period of at least five years. It will look at both sustained success and continuous improvement but can also include major improvement and/or turnaround scenarios.
- Our 2026 Finalists are:
- Chandler Macleod
- CXC
- Kelly Outsourcing and Consulting Group
Recruitment & Talent Solutions categories
The Best company to work for
- This award recognises organisations that stand out as employers of choice by attracting, developing, and retaining top talent.
- Our 2026 Finalists are:
- Evolve Talent
- Three Recruitment
- Tradewind Australia
The back-office team of the year
- This award recognises an exemplary team within all back-office, operations and support functions that have enabled or best supported growth, innovation, or performance.
- Our 2026 Finalists are:
- Talenza
- Tradewind Australia
- WOW Recruitment
The Client service award
- This award recognises excellence and collaboration in delivering outstanding client solutions. It celebrates those who consistently build trust, achieve measurable results, and go above and beyond to meet client needs.
- Our 2026 Finalists are:
- Davidson
- Globe 24-7
- Method Recruitment Group
- MJD Recruitment
- Tradewind Australia
- WOW Recruitment
The recruit wizard best use of technology & innovation Award
- This award recognises companies who demonstrate a clear and measurable impact in supporting their clients' access to a more diverse workforce or drive higher levels of inclusion by addressing challenges such as economic inequality, access to education, training or more effective employee engagement and retention.
- Our 2026 Finalists are:
- Access Offshoring
- Civitas Talent
- Evolve Talent
- Globe 24-7
- HOBAN Recruitment
The leader of the year Award
- This award recognises a visionary leader who has achieved exceptional growth, pioneered transformational improvement - in their business or industry - and inspired the highest levels of engagement and performance from their people throughout the past year.
- Our 2026 Finalists are:
- Tiffany English, Chief Executive Officer, Access Offshoring
- Shane O'Neill, Director, Civitas Talent
- Ryan Valentine, Managing Director, Curamoir Healthcare Recruitment
- Sam Smith, Director, Evolve Talent