Internal Talent Awards 2022
🎵 Oh what a night! 🎵
Oh what a night indeed. The candlelight, the outfits, the music, the dancing and of course the reunions and the celebrations. ATC co-founder Trevor Vas walked away with a surprise award, the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to industry. A few notes on Trevor’s career and why Lauren and Craig selected him as the inaugural winner:
- Trevor began his recruiting career in 1994 and went on to lead a division of Robert Walters call Resource Solutions setting up Managed Vendors/RPOs for Telstra, Hewlett Packard, Air NZ and many more.
- He set up HCMS and a long list of organisations had their TA Operating model and strategy designed by Trevor. His clients included BHP, Westpac, Qantas, NZ Post, Origin Energy & Telstra.
- By the mid 2000’s Trevor was a frequent visitor to the USA to attend the ERE conferences, which at the time was the leading TA conference. This is where Trevor got to know a large number of the speakers and especially Kevin Wheeler. Trevor and Kevin decided to create Australia’s first conference for Talent Acquisition teams called ATC, or Australian Talent Conference. ATC provided for the first time, access to international Talent Leaders and the opportunity for local TA Leaders to showcase their achievements. They also spun off smaller meet ups and events focussed on Sourcing, Social Media, Design Thinking, Branding and Technology as well as the Future of Talent retreat for Senior Leaders.
- Trevor is an entrepreneur at heart. Whilst he is still actively involved in the ATC, he has other business interests and board positions. Trevor has always been very generous with his time and guidance and for those reasons he has built a great career not only for himself but helped build one for a large group of people who are forever grateful.
There were many other winners there that night too, we’d love to say a heartfelt congratulations to:
Talent Leaders of the Year… Laura White, PaperCut Software (Corporate) and Amy Schultz, Canva
Talent Teams of the Year… Canva and EY (a tie! For Enterprise) and Lycopodium (Corporate)
Talent Professionals of the Year… Tali Butler, Rheinmetall (Enterprise) and Sophie Mexted, Youi (Corporate)
Excellence in Candidate Experience… won by Canva
Excellent in Onboarding… won by Canva
Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion… won by Coles Group
Excellence in Employer Branding… won by EY
Excellence in Innovation… won by KPMG
Best Tech Stack… won by Immutable
Best Use of Video… won by Allianz
Best Careers Website… won by Sportsbet
Best Vendor Solution… won jointly by Video My Job and Reejig
Community Award…won by Australia Post
If you missed it, here’s some pics. Enjoy!
Jo