2017 SHORTLIST

Overall Excellence in HR

Version 1 (winner)

HR Leader 2017

Orla Graham (winner)

HR Team of the Year

• Ashford Castle
• Comfort Keepers
• Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
• Eason
• Irish Wheelchair Association
• ISS Ireland
• MSD Swords (winner)
• RCSI
• Topaz Energy
• Voltedge Management

HR Manager of the Year

• Jane Cameron - Irish Wheelchair Association
• Kate Connellan - ISS Ireland (winner)
• Liz Kenny - Fingal Film Festival

HR Rising Star of the Year

• Hilary Dolan - Health Services Executive (winner)
• Aideen Hartnett - Sam Dennigan & Co.
• Ruby Hsieh - Vinci Construction Grands Projets
• Laura Roche - Comfort Keepers

HR Supplier of the Year

• Peninsula Ireland
• Sigmar Recruitment (winner)
• Strandum HR

Best Public Sector HR Initiative

• Future Leaders Programme - Health Service Executive
• The DCU Incorporation Programme - Dublin City University (winner)
• The Health Service Excellence Awards 2016 - Health Service Executive

Best SME HR Initiative

• Flynn
• Roscommon County Childcare Committee
• Voltedge Management (winner)

Best Recruitment Agency & HR Team Partnership

• HERO Recruitment
• Sigmar Recruitment (winner)

Best Learning & Development Strategy

• Ashford Castle
• Comfort Keepers
• Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (winner)
• Dublin City University
• Goodbody
• HedgeServ
• Overstock Ireland
• Trend Technologies
• Trinity College Dublin

Best Talent Management Strategy

• BSI Espion
• Kuehne + Nagel
• Version 1 (winner)
• Vinci Construction Grands Projets

Best Change Management Programme

• Ballymun Food Emporium - Musgrave Wholesale Partners
• Eason Evolution
• Good to Great - Aer Lingus (winner)
• Goodbody
• HR Service Centre - Trinity College Dublin
• National Rehabilitation Hospital
• The DCU Incorporation Programme - Dublin City University
• The HSE HR Coaching Network - Health Service Executive
• Topaz Energy
• Trend Technologies

Best Health & Wellbeing Strategy

• Be At Your Best - Bank of Ireland (winner)
• Be Well Work Well - Musgrave Operating Partners Ireland
• Comfort Keepers
• Flynn
• Fuel Your Everything - Microsoft Ireland
• Goodbody
• HedgeServ
• Inspire - RCSI
• MSD Swords

Best Use of CSR in HR

• AbbVie in Ireland
• Alkermes
• Bank of Ireland
• EireChrom
• HedgeServ (winner)

Most Innovative Use of Technology

• AIB Pensions e-form
• HSELanD - Health Services Executive (winner)
• Ingersoll Rand – Thermo King
• Savills
• St. Vincent's University Hospital
• Team Working Diagnostic - Health Service Executive
• Topaz Energy

Most Effective Use of Internal Communications

• Ashford Castle
• Good to Great - Aer Lingus (winner)
• Vinci Construction Grands Projets

Most Effective Employee Engagement Strategy

• Dublin City University
• Focus Ireland (winner)
• Health Service Executive
• ISS Ireland
• Kuehne + Nagel
• National Rehabilitation Hospital
• Vinci Construction Grands Projets
• Voltedge Management

Most Effective Benefits Strategy

• myChoice - SAS Institute (winner)
• Service with a Human Touch - ISS Ireland
• The DCU Incorporation Programme - Dublin City University

Most Effective Recruitment & Retention Strategy

• Goodbody
• Topaz Energy
• Ussher Assistant Professor Programme - Trinity College Dublin (winner)
• Vinci Construction Grands Projets

Excellence in Education & Training

• Agri-Food Graduate Development Programme, UCD
• Roscommon County Childcare Committee
• Salesian Agricultural College
• Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (winner)