The Gradireland awards were held at the Mansion house in Dublin last night. RTÉ News presenter, Bryan Dobson, hosted the event and the winners were as follows:
Sector award winners (voted by students):
- Accountancy/Professional Services: Pwc
- Consulting: Accenture
- Engineering: ESB
- Financial Services: Bank of Ireland
- FMCG: Coca cola
- Investment Banking: Goldman Sachs
- IT & Telecoms: Google
- Law: A&L Goodbody
- Retail: Paddy Power
- Science: Abbott
- Transport & Logistics: Aer Lingus
- Most Popular Graduate Recruiter overall: Google.
Awards (voted by judges):
- Best Marketing campaign: Jameson
- Best Graduate training programme: KPMG
- Best Work Experience/Internship Programme: Ernst & Young
- Diversity Recruitment award: Abbott
- Best Small Recruiter: Eventovate
Post Graduate Awards:
- Business: University of Ulster
- IT: UCD
- Science: Trinity College Dublin
- Engineering: MSC in Bioengineering (collaboration between 5 colleges)
Graduate Employee of the year: Connor Barry, Abbott
Graduate Employer of the year: Abbott
It was a well attended event and congratulations to all, especially Abbott who had a very successful evening scooping up 4 prizes including the two most prestigious awards.
