Golden Globes for HR software success

From your first school trophy to an A plus grade, an Olympic Gold to the glam of the Grammys, it is human nature to enjoy a very public pat on the back for a job exceptionally done.

According to research by Boost, around 72% of buyers are influenced by tech awards when buying IT services or software. Awards give recognition for the late nights, blood, sweat and tears that puts you on a pedestal and can quickly catapult a business into the limelight – but you need to be in it to win it.

Whether you’re a HR software start-up or a big brand global player, niche or mainstream, established or market disrupting, there is an award to celebrate what you do best.

Here’s our round up of some of the HR tech awards which should also be on your hitlist.

UK Employee Experience Awards                                                    
Deadline: January

Awards that recognise outstanding initiatives that have improved the world of work by enhancing the employee experience with several tech categories available.

Personnel Today Awards                                                                  
Deadline: June

These highly acclaimed awards celebrate the positive impact of HR initiatives and innovation on a wide range of sectors. It includes tech-led categories such as HR tech provider of the Year and the HR Technology Award.

The European IT & Software Excellence Awards
Deadline: January

These awards focus on software development, IT and Telecoms solutions provision. They welcome entries from across Europe but are mostly UK-focused and tend to attract the smaller providers. 

The SaaS Awards
Deadline: May

These awards give recognition to innovative software solutions providers from across the globe.

Women in Tech Excellence Awards
Deadline: May

The Women in Tech Excellence Awards is designed to encourage female IT leaders of tomorrow by recognising and promoted the talented women currently in the industry today.

Tech Leaders Awards
Deadline: May

The awards, organised by Information Age, celebrate the UK’s top tech leaders, innovators and disruptors, showcasing their contributions to the economy.

The Sunday Times Tech Track 100
Deadline: July

This league table, compiled by Fast Track and published by The Sunday Times, ranks tech companies with the fastest-growing sales over the last three years.

The UK IT Industry Awards                                    
Deadline: July

Organised by The Chartered Institute for IT and Computing, these awards celebrate the positive impact it has on business and the wider world. It rewards the people who are creating a better world through IT.

UK Tech Awards                                                      
Deadline: August

These awards celebrate the successes of publicly quoted, AIM and fast-growing private tech companies.

Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50
Deadline: September

Currently in its 23rd year, the Deloitte-organised awards celebrate tech innovation and entrepreneurship, ranking companies based on their revenue growth over the last four years.

The Women in IT Awards    
Deadline: September

Organised by business technology site Information Age, this global series of awards aims to promote recruiting and retaining female tech talent and redress the gender imbalance in the sector. It celebrates the achievements of women in the sector and shines the limelight on new role models.

UK Business Tech Awards 
Deadline: September

Celebrates the UK’s finest tech businesses and rewards innovative and exceptional application of technology to transform and grow business.

The awards feature a variety of categories celebrating companies, individuals, applications, use of data, deals and technology transformation.

Go:Tech Awards
Deadline: October

From innovative clean-tech pioneers and COVID heroes to start ups and international giants, these awards are structured to showcase companies of all sizes and disciplines.

Not got the time?

If time, motivation and a never-ending to-do list are getting in the way of writing that elusive award entry, we’d be more than happy to help you with your submission.

With 13 award wins already under our belt, and years of experience promoting software clients, we know how get to grips with technology in all its glorious complexity and can turn features into benefits and highly complicated concepts into award winning copy. 

Get in touch.

Golden Globes for software success

From your first school trophy to an A plus grade, an Olympic Gold to the glam of the Grammys, it is human nature to enjoy a very public pat on the back for a job exceptionally done.

According to research by Boost, around 72% of buyers are influenced by tech awards when buying IT services or software. Awards give recognition for the late nights, blood, sweat and tears that puts you on a pedestal and can quickly catapult a business into the limelight – but you need to be in it to win it.

Whether you’re a software start-up or a big brand global player, niche or mainstream, established or market disrupting, there is an award to celebrate what you do best.

Depending on which industry you’re in, there will be a host of different sector-specific opportunities you can pursue, but here’s our round up of some of the main generic software and tech awards which should also be on your hitlist.

The European IT & Software Excellence Awards
Deadline: January

These awards focus on software development, IT and Telecoms solutions provision. They welcome entries from across Europe but are mostly UK-focused and tend to attract the smaller providers. 

The SaaS Awards
Deadline: May

These awards give recognition to innovative software solutions providers from across the globe.

Women in Tech Excellence Awards
Deadline: May

The Women in Tech Excellence Awards is designed to encourage female IT leaders of tomorrow by recognising and promoted the talented women currently in the industry today.

The Sunday Times Tech Track 100
Deadline: July

This league table, compiled by Fast Track and published by The Sunday Times, ranks tech companies with the fastest-growing sales over the last three years.

The UK IT Industry Awards                                    
Deadline: July

Organised by The Chartered Institute for IT and Computing, these awards celebrate the positive impact it has on business and the wider world. It rewards the people who are creating a better world through IT.

UK Tech Awards                                                      
Deadline: August

These awards celebrate the successes of publicly quoted, AIM and fast-growing private tech companies.

Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50
Deadline: September

Currently in its 23rd year, the Deloitte-organised awards celebrate tech innovation and entrepreneurship, ranking companies based on their revenue growth over the last four years.

The Women in IT Awards    
Deadline: September

Organised by business technology site Information Age, this global series of awards aims to promote recruiting and retaining female tech talent and redress the gender imbalance in the sector. It celebrates the achievements of women in the sector and shines the limelight on new role models.

UK Business Tech Awards 
Deadline: September

Celebrates the UK’s finest tech businesses and rewards innovative and exceptional application of technology to transform and grow business.

The awards feature a variety of categories celebrating companies, individuals, applications, use of data, deals and technology transformation.

Go:Tech Awards
Deadline: October

From innovative clean-tech pioneers and COVID heroes to start ups and international giants, these awards are structured to showcase companies of all sizes and disciplines.

Not got the time?

If time, motivation and a never-ending to-do list are getting in the way of writing that elusive award entry, we’d be more than happy to help you with your submission.

With 13 award wins already under our belt, and years of experience promoting software clients, we know how get to grips with technology in all its glorious complexity and can turn features into benefits and highly complicated concepts into award winning copy. 

Get in touch.

Home, not alone

Coronavirus (Covid-19) has hit the world hard. Really hard. It has put a big, brutal spanner in our personal and professional works. The ‘new normal’ is anything but normal.

It’s unsettling and scary. The only certainty is uncertainty.

In a business context, we’re having to adapt to digital meetings and engaging over email. Office banter is now a Youtube link or a meme. Work colleagues, families and friends are separated. The daily commute is bedroom to dining room. Boardroom directors are finding out that controlling maverick marketing managers and budgets is childsplay compared to home schooling. Teachers have been elevated to hero status in most UK households. NHS staff to superheroes.

Which leaves us PR and Marketing professionals feeling humbled and in awe. But we still want to do our bit to help – to keep products and services selling and businesses surviving. We can’t throw in the towel onto a growing pile of budget cuts and furloughed out of office notices. And while we’re not saving lives or educating future generations, we can still do our bit to help businesses keep their employers informed and clients engaged – just with an added dose of sensitivity. We can also help them maintain a healthy-ish pipeline and new business leads for when all of this is over. And be ready with some much-needed positive news stories.

This pandemic has brought out the very best in people – and the very worst. But as stone blunts scissors, good blunts evil. Families, neighbours and business communities are closer than ever despite the physical distance – finding new and innovative ways to connect and communicate to fight the good fight.

Connectivity was the buzz word last year. We were all connected socially and professionally by thousands of webinars, podcasts, apps and social media – 24/7, 365 days a year. Success was measured by amassing followers and likes.

Success today is about survival.

And connectivity has taken on a new meaning. Nothing to do with tech. Nothing to do with big data, IoT or generating retweets or comments.

It’s about being truly connected to everyone and everything that truly matters – friends, family, clients and work colleagues who if you’re lucky, become friends and like an extended family. If you’re reading this – you know who you are.

Being connected in April 2020 is knowing everyone we care for is safe and healthy.

On that note, Cameron Wells will be connected at 8pm tonight to pay tribute and give immeasurable thanks to the real heroes who are giving up being physically connected to their families – so that we can take care of ours.