Judges

Ruth Owen, CEO of Whizz-Kidz

Our aim is to ensure that every disabled child has an opportunity to be something special…a kid. There are an estimated 70,000 disabled children and young people in the UK waiting for a wheelchair that fits their young lives. That’s where we come in. Whizz-Kidz provides disabled children with the essential wheelchairs and other mobility equipment they need to lead fun and active childhoods.

Steve Playford, Managing Director, Financial Times Career Management

Steve Playford is an experienced Commercial Director who specialises in Recruitment Media. He has spent most of his career with blue chip UK media companies, most notably Telegraph Media Group and The Financial Times. At the Telegraph he successfully re-launched Telegraph Jobs before moving to head up the market leading UK executive job board www.exec-appointments.com in 2008 following acquisition by The FT. Steve also developed and grew the biggest UK resource for Independent Directors at the FT before launching the first ever formal education product in that sector in 2011. As part of his current remit of Managing Director at Financial Times Career Management he recently launched a new job board for the US executive market FT.com Jobs. He is a taxi driver in his spare time - ferrying his two young daughters to ballet lessons, swimming lessons, piano lessons, brownies and various coca-cola fuelled parties!

Laura Stoker, Executive Director of Global Training

Laura Stoker began her recruiting career as a researcher for executive search firms working on international and domestic projects. She has also worked as a Recruiter for J.D. Edwards in Denver, Colorado and as a Technical Recruiter for EMDS in Brussels, Belgium. She has been using AIRS techniques since she attended one of our first training classes in 1997 and now enjoys teaching the same knowledge to a new generation of Internet Recruiters.

The Onrec Editorial Team

Onrec is the accompanying website to Onrec Magazine which takes an in depth look into the Internet recruitment and the industry suppliers and is published bi monthly. This website aims to help recruiters and jobseekers find the best resources available to them on the internet. We provide 3 databases of invaluable information about recruitment sites, their suppliers and resources for jobseekers. The recruitment sites database has been part of the site since the year 2000 and has the largest directory of online recruitment sites in the world. The suppliers database is a relatively new addition to the site but is already proving to be an invaluable tool for both recruiters and jobseekers, in finding that they can always get more for their money.