Judging – CIPD Ireland HR Awards

Judging Process

We are very proud of our robust multi-tiered judging process and it is one of the areas that sets our annual CIPD Ireland HR Awards apart from the rest. The recipients of our awards are noted among their peers as having achieved the top tier of excellence within their category field.

The marking and judging process for the CIPD Ireland HR Awards has been carefully designed to ensure that outcomes are fair, transparent and credible.

The process is as follows:

Initial submissions are judged by a panel of experts against the merits outlined in the awards entry pack and category descriptors.
The scores are tallied and finalists are identified, finalists are then fully briefed at an online session .
The second stage of the judging puts the finalists through a rigorous judging process whereby they meet judges for a virtual interview, there are a sequence of questions to answer and presentations are optional.
Our impressive diverse judges are HR leaders and experts coming from a variety of roles, sectors and organisations.
There is also a panel of head judges made up of the Director and National Committee Chair of CIPD in Ireland and Professor Bill Roche, Full Professor of Industrial Relations and Human Resources, of UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School.
Professor Bill Roche oversees the judging process and has done so for several years ensuring clear criteria and guidelines as well as stringent mechanisms in scoring and assessment.