Announcing the winners of the gradireland Graduate Recruitment Awards 2010

The winners of the 2010 gradireland Graduate Recruitment Awards were announced on Thursday 20 May 2010 at a gala dinner at The Burlington Hotel in Dublin. Voted for by students and judged by an independent panel of industry experts, these awards recognise Ireland’s most popular graduate recruiters across a range of employment sectors.

The gala dinner and awards ceremony was attended by 300 of Ireland's most respected employers, third level careers services and professional bodies, making it the biggest gathering of the graduate recruitment community in Ireland.

Congratulations to all the winners and shortlisted companies. For those of you who were there – thanks for a great night! And for those of you who missed out, make sure you enter your organisation for the 2011 gradireland Graduate Recruitment Awards. Contact gradireland at + 353 (0)1 645 1500 for details; entry is free.

Ireland's most popular graduate recruiter

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Accountancy/professional services

PricewaterhouseCoopers
KPMG
Deloitte
Ernst & Young
Grant Thornton
IFAC Accountants
BDO Simpson Xavier
Russell Brennan Keane
Baker Tilly Ryan Glennon
FGS

Construction and property

Sisk
Kingspan
Quinn Property
Laing O'Rourke
SherryFitzGerald
SIAC Construction
Coffey Construction Ltd
PJ Hegarty & Sons
BAM Contractors
John Paul Construction

Consulting

IBM
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Deloitte
Accenture
McKinsey & Company
Goodbody Economic Consultants
Mercer
RPS Group
BDO Simpson Xavier Consulting
Watson Wyatt

Engineering

Airtricity
Electricity Supply Board
Siemens
Motorola
Shell
GE
Stryker Instruments
Jacobs Engineering
Quinn Group
Arup

Financial services

Bank of Ireland
Zurich Financial Services
Quinn Financial Services
Hibernian Aviva
Ulster Bank/Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Bank of America Securities
VHI
Irish Life & Permanent
FBD Insurance
Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Ltd/Halifax

FMCG

Diageo
Cadbury
Coca-Cola
Procter & Gamble
L'Oréal
Bulmers
Johnson & Johnson
Kerry Group
Unilever
Irish Distillers

Investment and investment banking

J.P.Morgan Chase
Goldman Sachs
Bank of Ireland Asset Management
Morgan Stanley
Barclays
Davy
HSBC
Goodbody Stockbrokers
Anglo Irish Bank Investment Services
Citi

IT and telecoms

Google
Microsoft
Apple
Sony
Facebook
Intel
IBM
Cisco
Sun Microsystems
Ericsson

Law

Arthur Cox
A&L Goodbody
Matheson Ormsby Prentice
McCann FitzGerald
William Fry
Maples & Calders
Holmes O'Malley Sexton Solicitors
Beauchamps Solicitors
Ronan Daly Jermyn
LK Shields Solicitors

Public service

Department of Education/Teaching
RTÉ
Health Service Executive
BBC
An Garda Síochána
European Commission
Department of Foreign Affairs
Enterprise Ireland
Department of Employment & Learning NI/Teaching
Department of the Environment

Retail

Marks & Spencer
Debenhams
Boots
USIT
Musgrave Group
Tesco Ireland
Paddy Power
Penneys (Primark)
Aldi
Unicare Pharmacy

Science

Pfizer
Boston Scientific
Abbott Ireland
GlaxoSmithKline
Wyeth Biotech
Kerry Biosciences
Medtronic
Wyeth Medica
Bayer
Eli Lilly Company

Transport and logistics

Aer Lingus
Dublin Airport Authority
Irish Rail
Lufthansa Technik Airmotive Ireland
Irish Aviation Authority
DHL
Ryanair
Stena Line
UPS
Bus Éireann

gradireland AHEAD award

Winner: The Civil Service

The GCI award for outstanding contribution to developing employability and skills in the curriculum 2010

Winner: Medtronic

The best student marketing campaign, sponsored by The Irish Times

Winner: Irish Distillers

Shortlist

Accenture
Ernst and Young
KPMG
Microsoft Ireland
NUI Galway
PricewaterhouseCoopers

The best graduate training and development programme, sponsored by cut-e

Winner: InterTradeIreland

Shortlist

Abbott Ireland
Accenture
Deloitte
First Derivatives
IBEC EOP
KPMG
Matheson Ormsby Prentice
PricewaterhouseCoopers

The best work experience or internship programme

Winner: PricewaterhouseCoopers

Shortlist

Abbott Ireland
Asidua
Beckman Coulter Ireland Inc
Deloitte
Ernst and Young
KPMG
Matheson Ormsby Prentice

The diversity recruitment award

Winner: Abbott Ireland

Shortlist

KPMG
Microsoft Ireland

SME employer of the year

Winner: Kavangh Fennell

Shortlist

Integrity Solutions

Graduate employee of the year, supported by Bank of Ireland

Winner: Sharon Kennedy, Abbott Ireland

Shortlist

Jean Lynham, Abbott Ireland
Brian Gavin, Deloitte
Patrick O'Neill, Deloitte
Lauren Kelly, KPMG
Stephen Fitzmaurice, Microsoft Ireland

The gradireland Graduate Employer of the year

Winner: Abbott Ireland

Shortlist

Accenture
Arup
Cadbury Ireland
Deloitte
Dublin Airport Authority
Ernst and Young
Google
KPMG
Maples & Calder
Matheson Ormsby Prentice
Medtronic Ireland
Microsoft Ireland
PricewaterhouseCoopers
RPS Group
Russell Brennan Keane

Postgraduate course of the year – business

Winner: Queen's University Belfast: MSc New Venture Creation

Shortlist

NUI Galway: MSc Corporate Strategy and People Management
NUI Galway: Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing Practice Programme
Waterford IT: MBS in the Management of Change

Postgraduate course of the year – science & engineering

Winner: NUI Maynooth: MSc Immunology and Global Health

Shortlist

Dublin City University: Masters in Electronic Systems or Telecommunications Engineering
NUI Galway: MSc Neuropharmacology
NUI Galway: Masters in Digital Media
UCD: MSc in Computer Science by Negotiated Learning

For a full listing of Ireland’s 100 leading graduate employers listed in order of the student vote, as well as broken down by sector and alphabetically, visit irelands100.com.