RIDI Awards 2020 Finalists Announced
The awards aim to help remove the barriers faced by disabled people and help them in to suitable employment.
The finalists of the Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative (RIDI) Awards 2020 have been announced after the awards received a record number of entries this year.
The RIDI Awards celebrate the latest pioneering employers and recruiters who are breaking down barriers to help people with disabilities into employment.
RIDI is a unique initiative to drive change in recruitment and remove the barriers faced by the millions of people with disabilities who are entering or progressing through the job market.
RIDI believes more needs to be done to build disability confidence into recruitment and employment strategies and actively campaigns to achieve this.
The RIDI Awards are the recruitment industry's only disability awards and form a key part of RIDI's work.
This year the awards received a record-braking number of over 100 entries across eight categories. The finalists are (in alphabetical order):
Best Candidate Experience
-DWF Law
-HSBC
-Government Recruitment Service
-Pension Protection Fund
-Rullion
Disability Confident
-Channel 4
-Enable, Shropshire Council
-Heathrow
-HSBC
-Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Disability Specialist
- Ambitious about Autism
- Diversity and Ability
- EmployAbility
- Leep1 - Cafe Leep
- Mentoring Circles and United Utilities
Most Inclusive Recruitment Campaign
- Guidant Global
- Financial Conduct Authority
- Trinnovo Group
- Wells Tobias Group
Making a Difference (Public Sector)
- Civil Service Talent Schemes Team, Civil Service HR
- Disability Staff Network - University Hospitals of -Morecambe Bay
- Essex County Council with Capita Resourcing
- Government Recruitment Service
- Network Rail
Making a Difference (Private Sector)
- Balfour Beatty
- Motorpoint
- Primark
- Saxton Bampfylde
Recruitment Team of the Year
- Civil Service Fast Stream and Early Talent
- HS2 Recruitment Team
- Pension Protection Fund - Recruitment Team
Getting Started
- FCO Services
- GTI RPO
- Heck!
- MAG (Airports Group)
- Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Trinnovo Group
The RIDI Awards 2020 ceremony will take place on 3rd December – having been originally planned for 4 June, the ceremony has been but pushed back later into the year due to the impact of Covid-19.
Jane Hatton, Director, Evenbreak is the RIDI Awards Chair of Judges. She said: "I'm thrilled to say we have been overwhelmed with the quality, variety and total number of entries this year.
"As ever, the RIDI Awards are the perfect place for inclusive employers and recruiters to share stories of success to inspire others and gain the recognition they deserve.
"Congratulations to everyone who entered the awards this year, especially to the finalists, who have made it through to the final round of judging in the face of stiff competition."
Who are RIDI
https://ridi.org.uk/about-us/#
The Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative (RIDI) has one purpose: to break down the barriers faced by the millions of disabled people who are entering or progressing through the job market.
RIDI believes more needs to be done to build disability confidence into recruitment and employment strategies and campaigns actively to achieve this.
They help recruiters and employers to become disability confident and offer more job opportunities to people with disabilities.
They give recruiters and employers the tools they need to make a difference such as the Clear Kit online toolkit, which allows organisations to identify and remove the barriers in their recruitment, and the Clear Assured self-assessment framework.
Our joint initiative started in 2011 when we realised that things had to change to improve the poor job prospects for disabled people. At the time, eighty five per cent of disabled people felt that their condition was holding them back from getting a job.
And eighty per cent of recruiters agreed with them and thought their companies needed to do more to attract disabled jobseekers.
So we sat out to transform recruitment and improve job prospects for disabled people. The aim was to work with the industry, not against it, and to give recruiters and employers the information and tools they need to change things.
In 2014 we came together for the first time to celebrate progress on disability in recruitment at a spectacular RIDI Awards ceremony.
We recognised the need to celebrate the great strides being made in the industry and the RIDI Awards are now becoming a regular fixture on the recruitment industry calendar.
Throughout the year they run a series of events to help employers and recruiters become disability confident – see our news page for details.
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