The Employer of Choice Award, organized by JobMarket, is a prestigious award honors the very best organizations that have demonstrated superior talent management strategies, programs and HR best practices. Following the success since 2014, the Employer of Choice Award 2023 is entering its 10th year, continues to reward outstanding organisations, celebrate companies that have revolutionized working life in the new era.

The Award honors organizations, senior executives, and HR professionals for their outstanding achievements to talent management in the workplace and workforce, enable them to share and showcase successful initiatives and experiences. It highlights the excellent achievements of organizations base on quantifiable results.

Benefits of the Award

  • Enhance organization brand image
  • Helps to attract talents and to keep the workforce engaged and motivated, which is essential for business success
  • Raises an organization’s visibility in the job market and make it stand out from talent competition
  • Brand exposure in the most credible and highest audiences’ media networks of print, digital and social media – JobMarket, Sing Tao Daily, Headline Daily, The Standard and EastWeek

How to Enter

For participants who enter Employer Awards

  • The award committee will carry out in-depth research in different industries to select and invite the potential organizations to enter the Awards. Interested organizations could participate by completing the entry proposal form and selecting the combination of media exposure provided by Job Market.
  • Awards are open to nominated organizations which have operations in Hong Kong on or before 1st August, 2020.
  • Strategies presented in the application should be executed during 1st August, 2021 to 31st July 2023.
  • Organizations who are eligible to be winner of the Employer of Choice Award can submit their entries to Professional Award and maximum 2 of the following 3 categories:
    1) HR Excellence: Corporate Training OR Appreciation Culture OR ESG HR Strategy
    2) Caring Employer: Flexible Work Arrangement OR Workplace Happiness OR Green Workplace
    3) Regional: Asia Pacific Outstanding Employer OR Greater Bay Area Outstanding Employer
    4) Thought Leadership
  • Please state clearly on the entry proposal which category you are entering.
  • Organizations who submitting application for Professional Awards can compete for maximum of 4 areas in the category.

If you have any questions or need further information, please do not hesitate to contact our sales representatives [email protected] for more information.

For participants who are HR Service Awards:

  • The award committee will carry out in-depth research in different industries to select and invite the potential organizations to enter the Awards. Interested organizations could participate by completing the entry proposal form and selecting the media combination provided by Job Market.
  • Awards are open to nominated organizations which have operations in Hong Kong on or before 1st August, 2020.
  • Strategies presented in the application should be executed during 1st August, 2021 to 31st July 2023.
  • Organizations who are eligible to be winner of the HR Service Award can submit their entries to maximum 2 of the following areas:
    1) Best Corporate Trainer
    2) Best Recruitment Agency
    3) Best HR Technology Application
  • If organizations*, too, are eligible to be winner of the Employer of Choice Award, they can submit their additional entries to Professional Award and maximum 1 of the following 4 categories:
    *It is only eligible to participants who enter to 1 area of HR Service Award
    1) HR Excellence: Corporate Training OR Appreciation Culture OR ESG HR Strategy
    2) Caring Employer: Flexible Work Arrangement OR Workplace Happiness OR Green Workplace
    3) Regional: Asia Pacific Outstanding Employer OR Greater Bay Area Outstanding Employer
    4) Thought Leadership
  • Please state clearly on the entry proposal which category you are entering.
  • Organizations who submitting application for Professional Awards can compete for maximum of 4 areas in the category.

If you have any questions or need further information, please do not hesitate to contact our sales representatives [email protected] for more information.

Panel of Judges and Knowledge Advisors

Employer of Choice Awards organizing committee selected a panel of judges among authoritative leaders from different areas representing key sectors of the industry. They are chosen for their widely recognized expertise and insight into strategic areas of the Award’s categories.

Judging criteria
  • A strong reputation for implementing HR initiatives which have anticipated employee needs and improve employees’ well-being
  • Innovation and improvement of HR initiatives
  • Good employer-employee working relations
  • Commercial impact of HR practice with business objectives

Critical Dates

Media Coverage

Apart from print coverage, JobMarket will promote the event and the participating companies through its online and social media platforms. The Award will also be market and covered in Sing Tao Daily, Headline Daily and The Standard.

  • Judges & experts’ opinion
    January 2024

  • Awards’ finalists announcement &
    Award supplements
    January 2024

  • Post-event supplement
    June 2024

  • Awards’ finalists announcement
    January 2024 – March 2024

  • Awards’ finalists announcement
    January 2024 – March 2024

  • Awards’ finalists announcement
    January 2024

  • Awards’ finalists announcement & Award supplements
    January 2024

Past Awards

2022 Award Ceremony Highlights

Past Employer Of Choice Award Winners

(Due to limited space, the past winners list is not exclusive. Past winners are listed in no particular order.)

Amidas Hong Kong Limited Baxter Healthcare Limited CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited Crystal International Group Limited Dah Chong Hong Holdings Ltd Fila Marketing (Hong Kong) Limited Five Guys HK Limited Global Property Alliance Limited HKPC Academy Hong Yip Service Company Limited HumanGo Consulting Asia Limited iSystems Security Limited Kingsford Environmental (H.K.) Ltd. Merit Medical Asia Company Limited PwC China Smith & Associates Far East Limited Urban Group Asia Airfreight Terminal Able Solution Cosultants Company Ltd Advance Resources Consulting Group Ltd AIA International Limited Amber Beauty (H.K.) Management Limited Aviation Security Company Limited BCT Financial Limited and Bank Consortium Trust Company Limited Belle Worldwide Limited BOC Group Life Assurance Company Limited Cafe Deco Group Café de Coral Holdings Limited CARE U Professional Nursing Service Limited Centaline Property Agency Limited China Mobile Hong Kong Company Limited Chiyu Banking Corporation Limited Chong Hing Bank Limited Chow Sang Sang Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Company Limited Chun Wo Development Holdings Limited COL Limited Comba Telecom Systems Holdings Ltd CSL Mobile Limited Dah Sing Banking Group Limited DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited DHL Express (Hong Kong) Limited Hong Kong Disneyland Dr. Kong Footcare Limited China Everbright Limited FOOTSPOT FrieslandCampina (HK) Limited FTLife Insurance Company Limited Fuji Xerox (Hong Kong) Limited Genting Hong Kong Limited Hong Kong Aviation Ground Services Limited Hang Lung Properties Limited Hong Kong Airport Services Limited Hilti (Hong Kong) Limited Hong Kong Airlines Limited HK Electric Investments Limited Hong Kong Fundraising Consultancy Limited The Hong Kong Productivity Council HKR International Limited Haven of Hope Christian Service (HOHCS) Hong Kong Baptist Hospital Hong Kong Housing Society Hong Kong International Airport Hong Yip Service Company Limited Hung Fook Tong Holdings Limited Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited Inchcape Hong Kong Limited Informatics Education (HK) Ltd JLL Property Management Ltd The Hong Kong Jockey Club K11  Concepts Limited Kai Shing Management Services Limited The Kowloon Motor Bus Co. (1933) Ltd. K. Wah International Holdings Limited LBS Group Lee Kum Kee Lemniscate Creations Ltd Manulife HK Matilda International Hospital Hong Kong Maxim's Group McDonald's Hong Kong Midland Holdings Limited Mitsubishi Electric Hong Kong School of Motoring Nanyang Commercial Bank Limited Nissin Foods Group (HK & China) New World Development Company Limited NWS Holdings Limited OCBC Wing Hang Bank OpenCertHub Limited Otis Elevator Company (H.K.) Limited Outback Steakhouse Peoplebank Hong Kong Limited  Pizza Hut Hong Kong Pengtai Greater China Co Ltd Qfang Network (Hong Kong) Agency Limited Ricacorp Properties Limited Saizeriya Schindler Lifts (HK) Limited Schneider Electric Shell Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers SINO Group Sinomax Superhub Limited Swarovski Hong Kong Limited Synergis Management Services Limited Taste of Asia The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited Travelzoo Tse Sui Luen Jewellery Company Limited Tsui Wah Group UA Cinema Circuit Limited UPS Parcel Delivery Service Limited Urban Group Venhouse Financial Planning Ltd Wai Tat Enterprises International Holdings Limited Yoshinoya Fast Food (Hong Kong) Limited Zung Fu Company Limited