The Awards

We're the largest student-driven graduate recruitment awards event in the world. Over the course of the event, we'll count over 100,000 individual votes, welcome 1,000 distinguished guests on the night and present 30 fiercely-competed trophies.

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Winners 2012

Awards ceremony winners

The most popular graduate recruiter - Accounting and financial management 2012, sponsored by ICAEW

Award Winners

Winner: PwC

  • Baker Tilly
  • BDO
  • Deloitte
  • Ernst & Young
  • GE Financial Management Programme (FMP)
  • Grant Thornton
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • KPMG
  • National Audit Office

2011 winner: PwC

The most popular graduate recruiter – Banking, insurance and financial services 2012, sponsored by Euro RSCG People

Award Winners

Winner: HSBC Bank plc

  • American Express
  • Barclays Retail Business Bank
  • Bloomberg
  • The Financial Services Authority
  • Lloyd's
  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • The Royal Bank of Scotland Group
  • Santander
  • Zurich Financial Services

2011 winner: HSBC Bank plc

The most popular graduate recruiter – Construction, civil engineering and surveying 2012, sponsored by Careersinconstruction.com

Award Winners

Winner: Arup

  • AECOM
  • Atkins
  • Balfour Beatty
  • BURO Happold
  • Caterpillar
  • Jackson Civil Engineering
  • JCB
  • Laing O'Rourke
  • Mott MacDonald

2011 winner: Arup

The most popular graduate recruiter – Consulting 2012, sponsored by SHL

Award Winners

Winner: McKinsey & Company

  • Accenture
  • Bain & Company
  • The Boston Consulting Group
  • BT
  • Capgemini
  • IBM
  • Mars & Co
  • Mercer
  • PA Consulting Group

2011 winner: IBM

The most popular graduate recruiter – Consumer goods - manufacturing and marketing 2012, sponsored by Stafford Long & Partners

Award Winners

Winner: Innocent Drinks

  • The Body Shop International
  • Coca-Cola Enterprises
  • Estée Lauder Cosmetics
  • GlaxoSmithKline
  • Kraft Foods
  • L'Oréal
  • Nestlé
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Unilever

2011 winner: L'Oréal

The most popular graduate recruiter – Energy and utilities 2012, sponsored by Engineering & Technology Jobs

Award Winners

Winner: BP International

  • Anglian Water
  • E.ON UK
  • EDF Energy
  • ExxonMobil
  • npower
  • Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)
  • ScottishPower
  • Shell
  • Yorkshire Water

2011 winner: BP

The most popular graduate recruiter – Engineering, design and manufacture 2012, sponsored by SIFE

Award Winners

Winner: Rolls-Royce

  • Airbus
  • The Army
  • BAE Systems
  • BMW
  • Dyson
  • Jaguar Land Rover
  • Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains
  • The Royal Air Force
  • Siemens

2011 winner: Rolls-Royce

The most popular graduate recruiter – Investment banking and investment 2012, sponsored by Bloomberg Institute

Award Winners

Winner: Goldman Sachs

  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch
  • Barclays Capital
  • Barclays Wealth
  • Citi
  • Credit Suisse
  • Deutsche Bank
  • HSBC Global Banking and Markets
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Morgan Stanley

2011 winner: Goldman Sachs

The most popular graduate recruiter – IT and technology 2012, sponsored by Betfair

Award Winners

Winner: Google

  • Accenture
  • Apple
  • BT
  • IBM
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
  • Secret Service (MI5)
  • Sony

2011 winner: Microsoft

The most popular graduate recruiter – Law 2012, sponsored by GTI Recruiting Solutions

Award Winners

Winner: Allen & Overy LLP

  • Baker & McKenzie LLP
  • Clifford Chance
  • DLA Piper
  • Eversheds LLP
  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • Herbert Smith LLP
  • Hogan Lovells International LLP
  • Linklaters LLP
  • Slaughter and May

2011 winner: Allen & Overy LLP

The most popular graduate recruiter – Logistics, transport and supply chain 2012, sponsored by Rolls-Royce

Award Winners

Winner: British Airways

  • BAA
  • DHL Supply Chain
  • Enterprise Rent-A-Car
  • FirstGroup
  • Maersk
  • Network Rail
  • Transport for London
  • UPS
  • Virgin Atlantic Airlines

2011 winner: British Airways

The most popular graduate recruiter – Public sector 2012, sponsored by Siemens

Award Winners

Winner: NHS Graduate Schemes

  • The Army
  • British Council
  • Civil Service Fast Stream
  • Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO)
  • GCHQ
  • Metropolitan Police Service
  • Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
  • Security Service (MI5)
  • Teach First

2011 winner: NHS Graduate Schemes

The most popular graduate recruiter – Retail 2012, sponsored by McDonald's

Award Winners

Winner: John Lewis Partnership

  • Abercrombie and Fitch
  • Arcadia Group (Topshop, Burton, Dorothy Perkins)
  • Boots
  • The Co-operative
  • Groupon
  • House of Fraser
  • Lidl
  • Marks & Spencer
  • Tesco

2011 winner: Arcadia Group (Topshop, Burton, Dorothy Perkins)

The most popular graduate recruiter – Scientific research and development 2012, sponsored by Cut-e

Award Winners

Winner: GlaxoSmithKline

  • AAH Pharmaceuticals
  • Abbott Laboratories
  • AstraZeneca
  • DSTL
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Kraft Foods
  • Pfizer
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Unilever

2011 winner: GlaxoSmithKline

The best use of social media 2012, sponsored by CPA Australia

Award Winners

Winner: Microsoft

  • Abercrombie and Fitch
  • The Army
  • Coca-Cola Enterprises
  • Groupon
  • Innocent Drinks
  • L'Oréal
  • Tesco
  • Unilever
  • Virgin Atlantic Airlines