A YORK-based graduate recruitment company has been awarded a prestigious title in a national online survey.

Graduates Yorkshire was named best regional job board at the National Online Recruitment Awards (NORAs), at a ceremony, beating off almost 600 other websites.

The awards were nominated by about 28,000 job seekers, and mystery visitors helped narrow down the field and select the winners.

Martin Edmondson, chief executive of Graduates Yorkshire, said: “This is a great achievement for the team at Graduates Yorkshire and testament to all the hard work they put into the website.

“It is particularly gratifying that we won the award because it is the users of the Graduates Yorkshire website who have voted for us. At a time when graduate recruitment is said to be in crisis, Graduates Yorkshire continues to thrive offering full-time jobs and paid internships to graduates seeking employment.”

The company works with ten university careers services around Yorkshire to match employers in the region with the most appropriate graduate talent.