The award recognises the Top 25 most socially engaged companies in the recruitment industry, within EMEA, and highlights the companies who have established the strongest social engagement strategies based on interactions with LinkedIn’s 450 million members.

“This is an incredible achievement for us,” said Oliver Castle, Group Managing Director at Oliver James Associates. “We’re passionate about adding value to our clients and candidates and constantly look for innovative ways to evolve our current social presence. LinkedIn is a key tool in our wider communications strategy”.

Anita Saini-Golding, Head of Marketing for Oliver James Associates, said “We’ve focused on building a strong content and digital marketing team with a view to growing our audience and engaging with our candidates and clients. Alongside running highly targeted marketing campaigns on LinkedIn, we’ve utilised the platform to provide career advice, highlighting key global and local job ads, specific information on our recruitment services and industry insights from our company’s leaders. This recognition from LinkedIn emphasises the true power of engaging content.”

Rankings for the LinkedIn Top 25 are based on social reach, employee engagement, talent brand and content marketing power on LinkedIn. The ranking measures the top companies in the recruitment industry from over 60,000. Oliver James Associates has increased its LinkedIn following by 69.6% in the last 12 months as a result of a highly targeted content marketing strategy via the LinkedIn platform.