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This year, during the Employer Branding Summit on Tuesday, November 14, we announced the kick-off for the election of the Most Influential Recruiter. Our 15th edition – what an achievement!

Who will follow in the footsteps of Eugène van den Hemel of Jobs for Humanity, winner of the jury prize and #MIR2022? Last year the jury awarded prizes to both Strictly People in the Recruitment Team category and to Kim Werensteijn in the Recruitment Marketing category. Will the jury hand out extra prizes again in 2023? It’s up to the jury to decide, based on the quality of the entries.

And who will be chosen by the public as this year’s winners? Last year, Pien van den Boer of Timetohire was the winner in the Talent category. Who will be chosen this year as the most promising talent in the recruitment world? And who will follow in Roy Fasen’s footsteps in the Interim category? In 2022, the public voted Eugène van den Hemel the winner of the Agency category. Who will take this prize in 2023? In the Marketing category, Kim Werensteijn was the winner in 2022, who will it be in 2023? Who will follow up Jeroen de Wit in the Corporate category? And who will win in the Sourcing category? Last year that honour went to Alla Pavlova of Riot Games; who will take over from her? And who will follow Wortell in the Recruitment Team category?

Once again, we will be conducting a nomination round and a voting round. But this year we’re taking a different approach to the nomination round. Curious to know more? Then carry on reading to find out what we’re doing differently this year!

Will there be a lot of changes this year? Well, quite a few!

1. Names of nominees remain secret until voting starts
   In 2022, we announced all nominees as soon as they were known. We won’t be doing this this year. Up until the voting round, all nominees will remain anonymous.

2. Information session for nominees just prior to the voting round
   Just before the voting round begins and the nominees’ names are made known, we will organize an information session for all nominees. This is when we tell them what to expect and what is about to happen, so that they enter the election well prepared. The information session is also the opporunity to indicate whether you still want to take part in the election. Sometimes, despite being pleased and proud to be nominated, nominees may not want to, or are unable to, participate in our election. Because their names are kept secret until the voting round, these nominees will be able to withdraw without losing face.

3. Changing of the guard in the Expert Jury
   Representing the winners of the election this year, Eugène van den Hemel (winner 2022) takes over from Wim Dammans (winner 2021) on the jury. Wim, thank you for your expert judgment in 2022!

In addition, this year we can also count on the following members of the Expert Jury again:

• Annelies Graafland (Recruitment Manager BDO and board member of Recruiters United)
• Marco Hendrikse (Manager Marketing & Content at artra)
• Koen Roozen (Strategic) Recruitment lecturer at the Academy of Labour Market Communication (Academie voor Arbeidsmarktcommunicatie) and Partner at HetRecruitingKantoor and HetMobiliteitKantoor)

4. Collaboration with Recruiters United
   The election for ‘Most Influential Recruiter’ will be familiar to many people within our profession, but of course we want to reach as many colleagues as possible. As the largest network of labour market professionals, Recruiters United is the partner for achieving that. That’s why this year you can also vote for our nominated candidates on the Recruiters United website. At Recruiters United they know exactly what’s going on in our field, they organize all kinds of events and just as we are trying to do with this election, their goal is to bring professionals together and share knowledge in the recruitment field. Which makes it extra fulfilling to be able to put your shoulders to the wheel and organize a successful 15th edition of this election.

5. New partner
   This year we are pleased to welcome Jobsrepublic as our new sponsor for the Recruitment Marketing category. Jobsrepublic takes over the baton from Talmark, which was the sponsor of this category for many years. We would like to thank Talmark for their great support over the past years and we are delighted that Jobsrepublic wants to commit to this category as a new partner. So a hearty welcome to Jobsrepublic! Of course, we are also super pleased that Cammio, Carerix, Compagnon, Independent Recruiters, artra, Textkernel and TimetoHire are our partners again this year for the Overall, Agency, Interim, Corporate, Recruitment Talent, Sourcing and Recruitment Team categories. Thank you for your renewed support!

What do the nominees have to do to be eligible?

Answer five video questions via the Cammio video platform.

Why did we go for the video option? Two reasons.

1. So that everyone can participate, not just recruiters with a sophisticated back office that can produce a flashy case for them.
2. And because all the nominees will then be able to demonstrate their quality during the election itself and not only the eventual winners. The answers on video will be made available to both the public (via the voting form) and the jury. Based on that, both audience and jury can choose their (category) winners.

What are those five questions again?

1. What was your biggest recruiting success of the past year?
2. What was your most important recruitment innovation of the past year?
3. What have you done in the past year to keep up with the profession?
4. How have you shared your knowledge about the profession within and outside your company over the past year?
5. In your opinion, what is the most important recruitment trend for 2024?

Timeline #MIR2023:

Tuesday, November 14, 2023: Kick off of #MIR2023 during Employer Branding Summit
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 – Friday, December 15, 2023, midnight: Nomination round
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 – Information session for nominees at Cammio in The Hague
Tuesday, December 19, 2023: Announcement of nominees and nominees start campaigning
Tuesday, December 29, 2023 – Wednesday, January 24, 2024, midnight: Voting round for audience award
Tuesday, December 19, 2023 – Thursday, January 11, 2024, midnight: Time period for submitting answers to the five video questions for participation in the Jury Prize
Friday, January 12, 2024 – Wednesday, January 24, 2024: Assessment and deliberation by the jury of the video answers
Friday, January 26, 2024: Awards Ceremony – Huize Frankendael (16.00 – 20.00)

And now get nominating!

How? By entering the nomination of your recruitment hero in our SurveyMonkey questionnaire. Just click on the big green or blue button above or below this article. That will take you directly to the survey on the SurveyMonkey site.

DON’T FORGET:

To make your nomination valid, please include the following information about the nominee and yourself:

• the first and last name of the recruiter, for the team award, please include the name of the team manager
• link to the LinkedIn profile of the nominated recruiter
• the category for which you are nominating the recruiter (agency, corporate, interim, marketing, talent or team),
• the contact details of the nominee
• a statement confirming that you have the nominee’s permission to nominate them and to share their contact details
• put your own case/motivation,
• of course you need to include your full name, position, employer, a link to your professional profile and your contact details as you’re vouching for your nomination.

Make sure you scroll right through to the bottom in Survey Monkey, because you have to answer six (6!) questions! Please note that it’s NOT a vote, but a nomination. You won’t be able to vote until December 19.

In contrast to last year, you won’t be able to check in real time whether your candidate’s name is on the list of nominees. But you will be able to see the total number of nominees per category. This is because we want to ensure that the names of the nominees remain anonymous until the voting round. The nomination process will remain live up until the start of the voting. So make sure your nominations are in before December 15!