June 2012.pdf - RCSA

2012 RCSA GALA BALL & Awards
2012 RCSA Gala Ball
and Awards
At the industry’s “night of
nights” on 10 May at the
Plaza Ballroom in Melbourne,
more than three hundred
RCSA members applauded
the Award winners for 2012.
The Principal Event and
Awards sponsor was
RecruitmentSuper.
RCSA CEO Steve Granland said, “This was the
second year of our new Awards program which
was even bigger and better than last year with
close to fifty submissions. I’d like to congratulate
the winners and finalists for their outstanding
submissions. There is some great work being
done out there and the recruitment industry
and the RCSA are very proud of this. The ball
was a terrific night for members to catch up
with colleagues and friends”.
RCSA President Lincoln Crawley FRCSA said,
“We are proud of the progress we have made in
increasing the professionalism of the industry”.
The Award winners are:
Young Recruitment
Professional Award
The winner of the
Young Recruitment
Professional Award
was Sean Blanche
MRCSA of Bayside
Personnel in NSW.
Sean is an Executive
Director of the
Bayside Group of Companies and took
the lead over a very tight field of four other
state finalists (meet Sean on page 16).
The Young Recruitment Professional
Award was proudly sponsored by CareerOne.
McLean Award for
Workplace Safety
There was a very tight
finish for the McLean
Award for Workplace
Safety with Skilled
Group Limited named
as Award winner. The
submission focused on
breaking out of the increasing complexity
of systems to make safety clear, relevant
and simple for their 60,000 employees.
The McLean Award for Workplace Safety
was proudly sponsored by WorkPro.
Corporate Social
Responsibility Award
The new Corporate
Social Responsibility
Award was highly
contested with
Beaumont Consulting
emerging as the winner.
Their submission
showed strong business
leadership in terms of setting up a specific
non-profit recruitment division.
The Corporate Social Responsibility
Award was proudly sponsored by FastTrack.
Outstanding
Contribution Award
The Outstanding
Contribution Award
was won by Robert
Blanche FRCSA (Life).
Director of The Bayside
Group of Companies.
Robert joins a select
group of industry leaders
who have been the recipients of this
prestigious award.
The Outstanding Contribution Award
was proudly sponsored by SEEK.
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