Well what a year it’s been for Elkie Holland, Managing Director and founder of Prospectus IT Recruitment. So far this year she has been a Finalist for three separate Awards:
- The Vitalise Business Woman of the Year 2013
- The Sussex Woman of the Year Awards 2013 in the category of "Success Story"
- The NORAs (National Online Recruitment Awards) in the category of Best Small Agency.
We are extremely pleased and proud to announce that Elkie was a WINNER at the Sussex Woman of the Year Awards 2013 in the category of "Success Story".
The
award ceremony took place at the Hilton Avisford Park Hotel in Arundel on 22nd
November. The ‘Success Story’ category
is for someone who deserves an award
for their outstanding achievement. (For those of you wondering why Elkie was
nominated for a Sussex based award, this is because she also owns a property in
the area and splits her time working and living between Sussex and Surrey).
Further information on this recent award click here.
Sadly Elkie wasn’t the overall winner in the Vitalise 2013 Business Woman of the Year, but
she was delighted to have been chosen as a Finalist as the organisers classed all Finalists of this Award as Ambassadors
to help encourage women to achieve.
Elkie is now an
Ambassador for the WMG Academy for Young Engineers, sponsored by the University
of Warwick. They open their doors in September 2014 for 14 and 16 year
olds, and are holding a Taster Event on Saturday 23rd November 2013 at the
International Digital Laboratory, University of Warwick.
The Finalists nominated for
this award which took place at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel on 11th
October were:
- Melanie Bryan, OBE, DL,
Deputy Lieutenant for Greater Manchester;
- Lee Thomas, Director of
Aesthetics Events Ltd
- Caroline Coates,
Executive Partner, Birmingham DWF
- Helen Wigglesworth, Co-owner
and Group Financial Director of Quadralene
- Judi Leavor, HR Director
at Center Parks
- Elkie Holland, MD & Founder of Prospectus IT
Recruitment
The Winner announced was Julie Kenny, Chairman and CEO of Pyronix one of the leading electronic security manufacturers in the UK.
The event speaker for
the evening was Dame Kelly Holmes and the judges included Lord Digby Jones.
For more information on this Award click here.
The Final event that Prospectus and Elkie were nominated for was the National Online Recruitment Awards (NORA’s).
2013 marked the 13th anniversary of the NORA’s and was
the most hotly contested ever. Nominations
were received for a record 730 separate
recruitment websites, so we were extremely proud to be selected as a finalist
in the Best Small Agency
category for the second year running.
Our thanks go to the hard
work and creativity of the team at Volcanic who helped build and design our web site and
joined us on the night of the award event.
The event took place at Sway
Bar in London on 12th November.
Sadly Prospectus didn’t win (aaah), but we had a great evening partying
with friends and colleagues and are looking forward to entering again next
year. We would like to take this
opportunity to congratulate Salt on winning the award for
this category.
So
as you can see, 2013 has been a fantastic year for Elkie and all at
Prospectus. May 2014 bring more
nominations, award ceremonies and winners !
