HR Leader Compass Awards

2010 Categories | How to Enter | Nominate Now | Nomination Criteria | Judging Process

Commending excellence,
innovation, and strategic vision
within the Australian HR profession

Welcome to the HR Leader Compass Awards 2010 - Australia’s most prestigious event for recognition of excellence in HR.

Celebrating its tenth year, HR Leader magazine has developed the most recognised and prestigious awards program for the HR profession in Australia. In recognition of our tenth anniversary we have evolved the awards, taking them a step further in the quest to recognise outstanding work in people management and leadership.

Now known as The HR Leader Compass Awards, reflecting their status as the best and most recognisable awards for the profession, they identify and reward those HR teams navigating their companies through change.

The HR Leader Compass Awards, formerly known as the Australian HR Awards, recognises excellence across the entire spectrum of HR, with 16 categories ranging from strategic planning and innovation in recruitment, through to best HR team and the CEO award for best HR champion.

Now in their tenth year, the awards have grown to reflect the increasingly important and complex role that HR plays in many modern organisations. Moreover, the HR Leader Compass Awards fill an important gap in providing an opportunity for individual HR leaders, professionals, teams and organisations to come together to recognise and celebrate HR as a profession.

Every year, we aim to raise the bar in terms of standards of entry. A rigorous selection and judging process, |which was developed in conjunction with leading academics and professionals from the HR industry, underpins the awards.

Organised by HR Leader magazine, the HR profession’s leading publication, the awards will culminate in a gala ceremony on Thursday 14 October 2010 in The Ivy Ballroom.

BENIFITS OF ENTERING

Honour and acclaim. A chance to be recognised and foster a great sense of pride and accomplishment among finalists and winners both within their organisations and externally among their HR peers.

Showcase your success. HR Leader magazine showcases all winners in our follow up HR@WORK report which is shared with thousands of HR professionals throughout Australia and internationally for setting the bar in best practice HR.

Internal benchmarking. The HR Leader Compass Awards assist organisations in identifying outstanding HR practice internally, and provide entrants with valuable insights and lessons on sound HR and people management practices, providing opportunities for further development and improvement.

Awards night. Each finalist will receive two complimentary tickets to attend the 2010 HR Leader Compass Awards gala dinner, which will be held in Sydney’s Ivy Ballroom on Thursday 14th October 2010.

2010 CATEGORIES

The Frontier Software Award for Employer of Choice (<1000 employ.)

The EmployeeConnect Award for Best Overall use of Technology

The HR Partners Award for Best HR Leader

The Careers MultiList Award for Best HR Team

The Aon Consulting HR Company of the Decade Award

The HR3 Award for HR Champion (CEO)

The FCB HR Award for Best HR Strategic Plan

The Cleardocs Award for Next Generation HR

The Accumulate Award for Employer of Choice (more than 1000 employees)

The Quadrant Executive Award for Best Talent Management Strategy

The Award for Employer of Choice (Public sector)

The Award for Innovation in Recruitment and Retention

The Award for Best Employer Branding Strategy

The Award for Best Learning & Development Strategy

The Award for Workplace Diversity

The Award for Best Health and Wellbeing Strategy

The Award for HR Young Gun

HOW TO ENTER

Complete a nomination registration form with your details.
Specify your category on the front page of the nomination registration form. Entry in the awards is free.
Read through the specific criteria for the category you are entering and base your submission on this criteria.
Criteria details can be found in the 2010 HR Leader Compass Awards Nomination Kit.
Supply between 1,000 and 1,500 words per nomination in the space provided on the nomination registration form. Supply up to two attachments with supporting information such as charts and statistics to elaborate upon submissions should they require it. Each attachment must be no more than 1MB.
Email your nomination to hrcompassawards@lexisnexis.com.au before Friday 27th August 2010.

2010 JUDGES AND JUDGING PROCESS

There are 16 award categories in this year’s HR Leader Compass Awards, recognising excellence across the entire HR spectrum. The judging process for the 2010 HR Leader Compass Awards is broken down into two separate stages.

Submissions are assessed against a set of essential and desirable criteria. This approach allows for flexibility in recognising innovation or creativity, while specific quantitative evidence linked to business outcomes validates qualitative claims.

Nominations are first passed on to an extensive shortlisting panel, which is comprised of leading HR academics and professionals from around the country. This panel is responsible for examining each submission, and shortlisting candidates based on individual award criteria.

A final judging panel, comprised of independent industry experts and professionals, selects winners from the shortlisted finalists based on individual award criteria and in consultation with members of the shortlisting panel.

Both panels of judges will expect nominations to meet as many criteria as possible.