The gradireland Graduate Recruitment Awards and postgradireland Postgraduate Course of the Year Awards 2012

The winners of the gradireland Graduate Recruitment Awards were announced on Wednesday 25 April 2012 at a gala dinner in The Mansion House in Dublin. Voted for by students and judged by an independent panel of industry experts, these awards recognise Ireland’s most popular recruiters across a range of employment sectors.

The gala dinner and awards ceremony were attended by 500 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 2013 gradireland Graduate Recruitment Awards. Contact gradireland at +353 (0)1 645 1500 for details.

This year's winners

See who won in the graduate recruiter categories.
See who won in the postgraduate courses categories.

Directions to the Mansion House

The Mansion House is located on Dawson Street, in the heart of Dublin City Centre, between Trinity College and St Stephens Green. Dawson Street is a lively street with numerous late night bars and a taxi rank for your safety and convenience.

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Winners of the gradireland Graduate Recruitment Awards 2012

Ireland’s Most Popular Graduate Recruiter 2012

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Accountancy/Professional Services

1. PwC
2. Deloitte
3. KPMG
4. Ernst & Young
5. Grant Thornton
6. IFAC Accountants
7. Baker Tilly Ryan Glennon
8. Mazars
9. Horwath Bastow Charleton
10= BDO
10= Russell Brennan Keane

Consulting

1. Accenture
2. McKinsey & Company
3. Hospitality Solutions Consulting
4. Goodbody Economic Consultants
5. Mercer
6. Towers Watson
7. CHL Consulting Group
8. RSM Farrell Grant Sparks

Engineering

1. Electricity Supply Board
2. Airtricity
3. Jaguar Land Rover
4. Eirgrid
5. Arup
6= Analog Devices
6= Siemens
8= Jacobs Engineering
8= Kingspan
10. Mercury Engineering

Financial Services

1. Bank of Ireland
2. AIB Group
3. Vhi Healthcare
4. Zurich Financial Services
5. Ulster Bank/Royal Bank of Scotland Group
6. Hibernian Aviva
7. Allianz
8. AXA
9. Canada Life
10. FBD Insurance

FMCG

1. Coca-Cola
2. Diageo
3. L'Oréal
4. Cadbury
5. Kerry Group
6. Jameson - Irish Distillers
7. Procter & Gamble
8. Johnson & Johnson
9. Glanbia
10. Unilever

Investment and Investment Banking

1. Goldman Sachs
2. Central Bank
3. JPMorgan Chase
4. Citi
5. Morgan Stanley
6. Bank of America Merrill Lynch
7. Bank of New York Mellon
8= Barclays
8= HSBC
10. State Street

IT and Telecoms

1. Google
2. Apple
3. Microsoft
4. Facebook
5. Intel
6. IBM
7. Ericsson
8. Cisco
9. Accenture Technology Solutions
10. SAP

Law

1. A&L Goodbody
2. Arthur Cox
3. Matheson Ormsby Prentice
4. William Fry
5. McCann FitzGerald
6. Mason Hayes & Curran
7. Maples & Calder
8. Eversheds
9= Byrne Wallace
9= Holmes O’Malley Sexton Solicitors

Retail

1. Paddy Power
2. Lidl
3. Aldi
4. Marriott Hotels
5. USIT
6. Musgrave Group
7. Marks & Spencer
8. TK Maxx (TJX)
9. Penneys (Primark)
10. Tesco Ireland

Science

1. Abbott Ireland
2. Pfizer
3. Boston Scientific
4. GlaxoSmithKline
5. Life Science Ireland
6. Medtronic
7= Allergan Pharmaceuticals
7= Eli Lilly Company
9. MSD (Merck Sharp & Dohme)
10. ICON Clinical Research

Transport and Logistics

1. Aer Lingus
2. Dublin Airport Authority
3. Irish Rail
4. Lufthansa Technik Airmotive Ireland
5. Irish Aviation Authority
6. Ryanair
7. Córas Iompair Éireann
8. UPS
9. Bus Éireann
10. DHL

Association of Higher Education Careers Services Employability Award 2012

Winner: Engage Africa

Association of Higher Education Careers Services Engagement Award 2012

Winner: EMC

Best Student Marketing Campaign

sponsored by The Irish Times

Winner: Jameson/Irish Distillers

Shortlist:

• Accenture
• Deloitte
• Enterprise Rent-a-Car
• Eventovate
• PwC

Best Work Experience or Internship Programme

Winner: Ernst & Young

Shortlist:

• Abbott
• Accenture
• Colgate Palmolive
• Deloitte
• Enterprise Rent-A-Car
• Eversheds
• KPMG
• Microsoft
• PwC

Best Graduate Training and Development Programme

sponsored by cut-e

Winner: KPMG

Shortlist:

• Abbott
• Deloitte
• EMC
• Ernst & Young
• First Derivatives
• InterTradeIreland
• Lidl
• Matheson Ormsby Prentice
• Microsoft
• PwC
• Stryker

Best Small Recruiter

sponsored by ISME

Winner: Eventovate

Shortlist:

• Diageo
• RSM Farrell Grant Sparks

The gradireland Diversity Recruitment Award

sponsored by AHEAD

Winner: Abbott

Shortlist:

• Enterprise Rent-A-Car
• Mercury Engineering
• Microsoft

Graduate Employee of the Year

Winner: Connor Barry (Abbott)

Shortlist:

• Aidan Sandys, Abbott
• Aine Sheehan (Deloitte)
• Niall Goulding (Deloitte)
• Ciara McNestry (First Derivatives)
• Ken O’Shea (InterTradeIreland – Eirgen Pharma)
• Niall McSkeane (InterTradeIreland – JFC Manufacturing
• Rachel Murray (Learnosity)
• Damian Cunningham (Medtronic Vascular)
• Lisa Archer (Sigmar Recruitment)
• Elizabeth Conlon (Vision Consulting)

Graduate Employer of the Year

Winner: Abbott

Shortlist:

• Deloitte
• KPMG
• Microsoft
• PwC

See who won in the postgraduate courses categories.

Winners of the postgradireland Postgraduate Course of the Year Awards 2012

supported by IBEC

Postgraduate Course of the Year – Business

Winner: MSc/GradICSA in Management and Corporate Governance, Ulster Business School, University of Ulster

Shortlist:

• MSc in Electronic Commerce, DCU Business School, Dublin City University
• Postgraduate Diploma in Fashion Buying & Management, College of Business, Dublin Institute of Technology
• MSc in Financial Services, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick
• MSc in Strategy, Innovation & People Management, J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, NUI Galway
• MSc in Legislative Studies and Practice, School of Politics, International Studies and Politics, Queen’s University Belfast and the Northern Ireland Assembly
• MSc in Finance, Trinity School of Business, Trinity College Dublin
• Postgraduate Diploma & MBS in Business Practice Economics, College of Business and Law, University College Cork

Postgraduate course of the year – IT

Winner: MSc in Computer Science by Negotiated Learning, UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics Centre, University College Dublin

Shortlist:

• MSc in Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Centre of Excellence, Cork Institute of Technology
• MSc in Cyberpsychology, Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT), Dún Laoghaire
• MA in Digital Media, College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies, NUI Galway
• MSc in Interactive Digital Media, School of Computer Science & Statistics, Trinity College Dublin

Postgraduate Course of the Year – Engineering

Winner: MSC in Bioengineering, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, University of Limerick, University College Dublin, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, National College of Art & Design

Shortlist:

• MSc in Applied Science (Enterprise Systems), College of Engineering & Informatics, NUI Galway
MSc in BioInnovation Fellowship, NUI Galway, University of Limerick, University College Cork, Dublin City University

Postgraduate Course of the Year – Science

Winner: MSc in Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin

Shortlist:

• MSc in Imaging and Microscopy, School of Biology & Environmental Science, University College Dublin

See who won in the graduate recruiter categories.