Awards

Awards for Excellence

Recognising excellence within recruitment and staffing

The 2025 APSCo Australia Awards for Excellence are now open.

We’re rethinking recognition and this year, the APSCo Awards for Excellence are taking a new direction.

In 2025, we’re moving away from lengthy written nominations. Instead, we’re moving to a format that will feel more familiar to recruiters - an interview-style conversation with a judging panel where substance, authenticity, and real impact take centre stage.

It’s a new approach that puts people and stories at the centre.

Why the change?

Because we’ve listened - to your feedback, to the realities of the market, and to what today’s recruitment professionals really value.

This year, we’ve simplified the entry process to focus on what really matters: the impact of your work.

There are no lengthy written submissions. Instead, we’re asking you to briefly explain your nominated project, initiative, or achievement in 400 words, and then take part in a short online interview with our judging panel.

Dates and times for these interviews will be arranged and communicated after entries close. The interviews will be held during the month of August.

To enter the Awards, simply complete the application form via our Awards platform, for your chosen category and briefly explain your project.

You will be requested to nominate a person/s (maximum 2) who will participate in the online interview with the judging panel via Zoom. Please make sure the people nominated for interview are directly involved in the initiative and can speak confidently about it.

A note about the Future Leader and Leader Recognition categories:

Please note: These categories are about recognition, not competition. There will be no interview conducted with the judging panel to determine finalists or winners. All nominees will be acknowledged in a special presentation at the APSCo Gala Dinner in October - a moment to celebrate their contribution in front of their peers and industry leaders.

Dates

Entry deadline: Friday August 1 at 5:00pm AEST

Support

If you have any questions on the entry process, please contact Carly Fordred at APSCo Australia by email carly@apscoau.org

The Awards are for Australian businesses and Australian initiatives or projects.
You are eligible to enter more than one category.
APSCo Members enter complimentary. An entry fee of $125 plus GST (per entry) for Non-Members must be paid by credit card (Visa, MasterCard and American Express accepted).
If your submissions have not been paid for by entry deadline, you may not progress to the online interview.

Enter the Awards here

2025 Award Categories:

Back Office Team of The Year

Best Brand

Candidate Experience

Client Service

ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance)

Future Leader Recognition

Leader Recognition

MSP of the Year

Employer of the Year

RPO of the Year

Specialist Firm of the Year

Technology & Innovation

Our Judges

Elouise is the founder of Three Sixty Digital, a recruitment marketing firm born from her realisation that recruiters and marketers don’t always speak the same language. With experience across Australia, NZ and the UK, she helps make recruitment agencies unmissable to clients, candidates and consultants alike.

Sophie Robertson is a recruitment industry advisor, coach and trainer. She worked in recruitment for 18 years in various roles from consultant to Business Development Director to General Manager in a global firm as well as in a boutique firm.

Since 2007, Sophie has through her business Younique Coaching coached many recruiters at all levels to bill more and be more successful.

Amy founded Risk Collective with a clear vision: to provide businesses with the expertise they need to navigate workforce compliance and culture challenges. With her background in work health and safety, Amy is passionate about building long-lasting partnerships and ensuring that every client feels supported and confident in their journey.

Lee is the Founder of Hyper Automate Consulting Services and is a recognised leader within the recruitment software sector, she has 20 years of experience. Her career encompasses roles such as Founder, Chief Operating Officer, Director of Customer Services, and Country Manager. Lee has held senior positions at Broadbean (now Veritone Hire), Seek and Kyloe Partners.

Mike has spent the last 30+ years helping global and local organisations understand their EVP and how to market their employment proposition to their target audiences through traditional and emerging media. Mike has helped organisations across all industries in the private and public sectors, showing them how to build the skills and resources to ‘farm’ talent through employer branding and talent experience management.

Paul spent nine years as a partner at Deloitte, where he was Tax Leader for Deloitte Private, National Leader of Clients & Markets, and led the Recruitment Industry Group. In 2014, he founded Sovereign Private to specialise in M&A and tax advisory for recruitment and staffing businesses. Paul assists business owners with exit readiness, sale negotiations, and international buyer engagement. He also advises on restructuring, profit repatriation, and employee share schemes.

Cameron has over 20 years’ experience in general accounting and tax advisory services. He works with a broad range of private businesses, individuals, start-ups, family groups and subsidiaries of multinationals. Clients seek his expertise in accounting, tax advice, financial and tax compliance, audit, SMSF, structuring advice, cloud accounting support, succession and estate planning, management reporting and virtual CFO services.