2026 Finalists
Recognition, Credibility & Prestige
The Talent Acquisition & Talent Tech Awards celebrate excellence, innovation, and sustainable growth in both HR technology and talent acquisition, giving the opportunity to showcase their outstanding work across a range of award categories.
Five reasons to attend
- Reward your team and celebrate your achievements together
- Gain recognition for your amazing work amongst other industry leaders at the event
- Insight into what set the winners apart and why they won their awards
- Meet our judging panel of in-house leaders, advisers and senior industry executives
- Opportunity to network with Talent Acquisition and Talent Tech leaders
Talent Acquisition Finalists
THE Early Careers Award
- This Award recognises outstanding commitment to early careers employment and achievement in the development of young employees.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Boots
- Celonis
- Mondelēz International
- Morrisons
- Morson Edge
- Philip Morris International
- Ramboll (In partnership with Papaya Global)
- S&P Global
- Scottish Power
- Telegraph Media Group Holdings
- Thoughtworks
THE best careers website
- This Award recognises the most effective, engaging and candidate-friendly careers website and its impact on talent acquisition.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Barchester Healthcare
- Evonik
- Telegraph Media Group Holdings
- Thoughtworks
THE Omni TA TEam Excellence Award
(up to 10k employees)
- This Award recognises exceptional performance, delivery or transformation of a TA team to meet the needs of their organisation's talent strategy.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- BBC Studios
- Digital Realty
- Elevare Civic Education Group
- Legends Global
- Mark Allen
- Nutanix
- Rightmove
- Talk Talk
- Telegraph Media Group Holdings
- VoCoVo
THE Omni TA TEam Excellence Award
(Over 10K Employees)
- This Award recognises exceptional performance, delivery or transformation of a TA team to meet the needs of their organisation's talent strategy.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Barchester Healthcare
- Becton Dickinson
- Boots
- BT
- Halfords
- McDermott
- Octopus Energy
- Tesco PLC
THE Candidate Experience award
- This Award recognises delivery of an exceptional experience at every stage of the candidate journey.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- BT
- Elevare Civic Education Group
- Morson Edge
- National Highways (In partnership with Talogy)
- Octopus Energy
- PureGym
- S&P Global
- Tesco PLC
THE best use of technology & Innovation Award
- This Award recognises exceptional performance, delivery or transformation of a TA team to meet the needs of their organisation's talent strategy.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Bolt Technology OÜ (In partnership with Papaya Global)
- Boots (In partnership with Poetry)
- Boston Consulting Group
- British Airways (In partnership with Unseen)
- BT Group (In partnership with Sapia.ai)
- EPAM
- Horton Housing with Tribepad
- IDEMIA Secure Transactions
- Kier Group (In partnership with Unseen)
- Nutanix
- Philip Morris International
- SentinelOne (In partnership with Papaya Global)
THE DE&I Award
- This Award recognises the value and impact of policies and initatives to promote greater diversity, eqality and inclusion driven by the TA function.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Boston Consulting Group
- M Group
- Octopus Energy
- Tesco PLC
- VoCoVo
The Recruitment Marketing Campaign of the Year
- This Award recognises an innovative, creative and successful campaign which meets the needs of the organisation's talent strategy and delivers a unique candidate attraction story.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Barchester Healthcare
- Boston Consulting Group
- Capgemini
- GKN Aerospace & Dawson Walker
- Halfords
- Howden (in partnership with Group GTI)
- Mondelēz International
The Excellence in Onboarding Award
- This Award recognises creativity, exceptional performance and outstanding delivery of a high-quality onboarding experience for new employees.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Barchester Healthcare
- MBDA (In Partnership with Unseen)
- Thoughtworks
The Long-Term Partnership Award
- This Award recognises TA teams that have built a strong, long-standing partnership with their RPO or technology provider for at least five years, demonstrating sustained success, continuous improvement, and transformation.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Becton Dickinson
- Boots
- SouthPole (In partnership with Papaya Global)
The PapAya Global Contingent Workforce Award
- This Award recognises in-house talent acquisition and workforce teams that have demonstrated exceptional leadership, innovation, and operational excellence in managing their contingent workforce.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Barchester Healthcare
- McDermott
Talent Tech Finalists
The Candidate Experience Solution of the Year
- This Award recognises a solution that has best enabled improvement in any or all aspects of the candidate journey.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Tazio
- Unseen
The Enterprise Tech Solution Award
- This award recognises a solution provider that enables large employers and / or recruitment businesses to improve their talent acquisition, development and / or management capability.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Giant Screening
- Horsefly Analytics
- Tifo
- Tribepad
The recruitment marketing solution of the year
- This Award recognises a marketing solution that has best enables more successful talent acquisition, employer brand or candidate engagement initiatives.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- PageUp
- SourceFlow
- Unifrog
THE talent tech customer service award
- This Award recognises excellence in client service and best value in a delivery of a recruitment or HR technology solution.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Cezanne HR
- Oyster
- Poetry
- SourceFlow
The talent tech growth award
- This Award recognises exceptional growth in a HR or Recruitment technology business in context of size and stage of scale.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Atlas
- Sapia.ai
- Vente AI
THE best contingent workforce solution
- This Award recognises any solution that best enables the attraction, assessment, management or development of contingent workers.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Giant Group
- Papaya Global
- Workwell Global
THE talent tech innovation award
- This Award recognises an HR or Recruitment technology solution that has transforms or significantly improved any aspect of talent acquisition, management or development.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- 360AI
- 50skills
- Atlas
- Eightfold AI
- Electric Circus
- Greenhouse
- Harver
- Papaya Global
- Poetry
- Rekbot.ai
- SafeRec
- Sapia.ai
- Tazio