Awards & Accreditations

Below are some of the awards and accreditations we have received for the websites we operate. We are striving to implement best practice and adhere to the highest possible standards for both the online and offline content that we provide on an ongoing basis.

Onrec Awards 2010 (ONREC) - Winners Announced

The Onrec Awards Event was held this year at the Grange St Pauls Hotel in London. The Awards reflect the success, growth, innovation talent and achievements of online media operating within the recruitment advertising sector

At this years event, the winners were announced to some 300 online recruitment experts during the evening awards ceremony. Redgoldfish Jobs was awarded the prestigious innovative online marketing award.

Redgoldfish Jobs - Innovative Online Marketing Award - Winner 2010  The Innovative Online Marketing Award recognises the ingenuity shown by companies to promote their products and services online. Redgoldfish Jobs beat off fierce competition to win this year’s accolade and joins the list of previous winners of this award including CareerBuilder in 2009, Monster in 2008 and TotalJobs in 2007.

Onrec Awards 2010 (ONREC)

The Onrec Awards celebrate the success, growth, innovation talent and achievements of online media operating within the recruitment advertising sector. They represent the Industry’s most prestigious Awards Ceremony and are held annually in London.



At the Onrec Awards 2010, Red Advertising and some of our individual brands and online solutions were shortlisted as finalists by the independent panel of judges for five awards. The Onrec Awards are one of only a few Awards that are completely specific to the Online Recruitment advertising sector. They reward only the best of the best in the industry.

Red Advertising - Onrec 5 Awards - Finalist 2010  Red Advertising, our individual brands and online solutions shortlisted as finailists for 5 Awards:- Innovative Online Marketing Award - Redgoldfish Jobs Innovative Offline Marketing Award - Red Advertising Best Technical Innovation Award - Generalist - Red Advertising Best Technical Innovation Award - Supplier - Jobmate Technology Candidate Service Award - Redgoldfish Jobs

In addition to being shortlisted as finalists for five awards, Carla Fern our Senior Account Executive, who heads up our client services section and is dedicated to the ongoing development of the Red Advertising Business and ongoing innovations within the online recruitment advertising sector, was shortlisted as a finailst for the prestigious Onrec Personality of the Year accolade.
 

Carla Fern - Personality of the Year Award - Finalist 2010  Shortlisted as finailist for this prestigious award "Carla is an exemplary member of our team, well liked within our organisation and has a rare passion for online media development and implementation. Her outstanding contribution to both our business and that of the online recruitment industry as a whole is why she was shortlisted by the independent panel of judges for this prestigious accolade"                                                      R.P Clarke                                                     Director

Interactive Media Award 2009 (IMA)

Red Advertising was awarded the top accolade of Best in Class at the Interactive Media Awards for its generalist Jobs board Redgoldfish Jobs within both the Employment and Human Resources categories.

The Best in Class Award is the highest honour bestowed by the Interactive Media Council. The winner of the award has to demonstrate that it has excelled in all areas of the judging criteria and achieved a perfect, or near perfect, overall score.

Redgoldfish Jobs demonstrated that it represented the highest standards of professionalism, standards compliance and impeccable planning and execution and that it is one of the world's most well executed websites.

Redgoldfish Jobs - Best In Class - Winner 2009 Redgoldfish Jobs scores high marks from judges to become Best in Class for both the Employment and Human Resources advertising categories. The independent Judges awarded scores of:-   97 % for Design   98 % for Feature Functionality   96 % for Content   97 % for Usability 100 % for standards Compliance 100 % for Cross Browser Compatibility

Recruitment Business Awards 2009 (RBA)

The Recruitment Business Awards are an annual event organised by The Drum, one of the UK’s leading publications for the advertising, design, digital media, marketing and online industries. These awards are in association with the Daily Telegraph and reward excellence in recruitment business practice, effective platforms for recruitment advertising and general creativity in recruitment advertising styles and formats.



Redgoldfish Jobs demonstrated a high level of quality and was recognised as an outstanding entry that should be shortlisted for the best Online Recruitment platform Award. The 2009 event showcased some of the leading major Recruitment Agencies within the UK and also included direct employer brands shortlisted for creative recruitment advertising campaigns including Aldi, Asda, Jaguar, Rolls Royce and Kellogg’s.

Redgoldfish Jobs - Online Recruitment Platform - Finalist 2009  Redgoldfish Jobs shortlisted as a finailist at the Recruitment Business awards along side some of the UK's finest recruitment agency and Direct Employer brands.

Marketing Industry Network Awards 2009 (MIN)

Red Advertising was shortlisted as a finalist for the "Digital Media Sales team of the Year Award" at this year’s Marketing Industry Network Awards (MIN Awards).



The MIN Awards are an annual event in association with the Daily Telegraph and News International and aim to identify the BEST media and marketing teams across the whole of the UK.

Red Advertising - Digital Media Sales Team of the Year - Finalist 2009 Red Advertising - Shortlisted as a finalist by judges for the Digital Media Sales Team of the Year Award. This was superb recognition of the work and effort that Red has put into building long term relationships with clients. Red was pitched head to head against the Telegraph's Regional Digital Sales Team as one of the two finalists nominated for this award.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Every site owned and under the control of Red Advertising Ltd has been accredited with the W3C Kite Mark. The consortium set the standard on the web and our sites operate to these high standards with validated programming code. As a result of the accreditations we are permitted to carry the following kite marks:

WWW Consortium HTML 4.01 A number of our website pages have been created using approved HTML 4.01 code which links in with the W3C compliance accessibility standards.

WWW Consortium XHTML 1.0 A large proportion of our websites have been created using approved XHTML code that complies with the W3C accessibility standards.

WWW Consortium CSS Our websites use W3C valid cascading style sheets in line with the standards set by the W3C Consortium.

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) The Majority of our websites content pages now conform to WAI AAA accessibility standards; depending on the tool used, our sites conform to at least WAI AA standard. We continue to work hard to ensure all page content conforms to the highest standards possible.

Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA)

Our websites all comply to the ICRA standard allowing the public to make informed decisions about electronic media by means of the open and objective labelling of content.

The content within all of our sites including written articles submitted by third parties, specific researched data presented, additional career articles and specififcally written job profiles all comply to the ICRA Standard.

ICRA ICRA is part of the family online safety institute, an international, non profit organisation of internet leaders working to develop a safer internet.