2026 FINALISTS
Recognition, Credibility & Prestige
The TIARAs set the standard for excellence, innovation and achievement, enabling employers to showcase the incredible work they do in talent acquisition and resourcing.
Five reasons to attend
- Reward your team and celebrate your achievements together
- Gain recognition for your amazing work amongst other industry leaders at the event
- Insight into what set the winners apart and why they won their awards
- Meet our judging panel of in-house leaders, advisers and senior industry executives
- Opportunity to network with Talent Acquisition and Talent Tech leaders
Talent Acquisition Finalists
THE EARLY CAREERS AWARD
This Award recognises outstanding commitment to early careers employment and achievement in the development of young employees.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Ampol
- BUPA
- Leidos
- MYOB
- Scyne Advisory
- VetPartners
- Atlassian
- Capgemini
- Lendlease
- NAB
- University of Melbourne
THE best CAREERS website
This Award recognises the most effective, engaging and candidate-friendly careers website and its impact on talent acquisition.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Ampol
- Avant
- Hanes Australasia
- Anglicare Sydney
- G8 Education
THE EIGHTFOLD TA TEAM EXCELLENCE AWARD (up to 1,000 employees)
This Award recognises exceptional performance, delivery or transformation of a TA team to meet the needs of their organisation’s talent strategy.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Airbus Australia Pacific
- Applejack Hospitality
- Carma
- hipages Group
- Zip
- Andromeda Robotics
- Boustead Geospatial
- Everest Engineering
- SYSTRA ANZ
THE EIGHTFOLD TA TEAM EXCELLENCE AWARD (over 1,000 employees)
This Award recognises exceptional performance, delivery or transformation of a TA team to meet the needs of their organisation’s talent strategy.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Bunnings Group
- Capgemini
- Each
- Infosys
- Metso Australia
- NAB
- Calvary Health Care
- Demant
- Genesis Energy
- Lactalis-Mainland Dairy
- MYOB
THE CIVITAS TALENT CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE AWARD
This Award recognises delivery of an exceptional experience at every stage of the candidate journey.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Boustead Geospatial
- Carbiz
- hipages Group
- MYOB
- Bunnings Group
- Experian
- Infosys
- SSI
THE BEST USE OF TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION AWARD
This Award recognises the most impactful use of technology either through implementing a new tech solution or using existing tech in a innovative way.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Ampol
- Boustead Geospatial
- Calvary Health Care
- EPAM Systems
- Probe CX
- BOQ Group
- Bunnings Group
- Certis
- Onside
THE DE&I AWARD
This Award recognises the value and impact of policies and initiatives to promote greater diversity, equality and inclusion driven by the TA function.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Cleanaway
- Hanes Australasia
- HESTA
- Infosys
- SYSTRA ANZ
- Experian
- HCF
- hipages Group
- NBN
- University of Melbourne
THE recruitment marketing campaign of the year
This Award recognises an innovative, creative and successful campaign which meets the needs of the organisation’s talent strategy and delivers a unique candidate attraction story.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- BUPA
- Genesis Energy
- Suntory Oceania
- Westpac
- CHEP, A Brambles Company
- Infosys
- VetPartners
The People2.0 excellence in onboarding award
This Award recognises creativity, exceptional performance and outstanding delivery of a high-quality onboarding experience for new employees.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Avant
- University of Melbourne
- Cobild
The Long-Term partnership award
This Award recognises TA teams that have built a strong, long-standing partnership with their RPO or technology provider for at least five years, demonstrating sustained success, continuous improvement, and transformation.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Guild Group
- hipages Group
Talent Tech Finalists
THE candidate experience solution of the year
This Award recognises a solution that has best enabled improvement in any or all aspects of the candidate journey.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Go1
- Jobs for Humanity
- Humanforce
- Tazio
THE talent tech innovation award
This Award recognises an HR or Recruitment technology solution that has transformed or significantly improved any aspect of talent acquisition, management or development.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- 50skills
- Eightfold AI
- Humanforce
- JobTetris
- Skill Society
- CheckWorkRights
- Hirevue
- Jobs for Humanity
- Sapia.ai
- Tazio
THE Recruitment marketing solution of the year
This Award recognises a marketing solution that best enables more successful talent acquisition, employer brand or candidate engagement initiatives.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- PageUp
- Shazamme
The talent tech customer service award
This Award recognises excellence in client service and best value in a delivery of a recruitment or HR technology solution.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Compono
- Recruit Wizard
The best contingent workforce solution
This Award recognises any solution that best enables the attraction, assessment, management or development of contingent workers.
Our 2026 finalists are:
- Humanforce
- Xeople
- People2.0