Asia Pacific – Human Resources, Asia’s only regional media & events brand, is proud to announce that the region’s most respected awards for human capital management, the HR Excellence Awards, are back for 2015.

This year will be the fifth year the awards have run.

Regarded by many as “the Oscars of the HR industry”, the HR Excellence Awards will be held in Kuala Lumpur on 17 September, in Singapore on 8 October, and in Hong Kong on 15 October.

“Human Resources has stood for excellence in HR management for over a decade and we are always honoured at the high level of participation the HR Excellence Awards receives year after year,” said Aditi Sharma Kalra, regional editor of Human Resources.

“We’re very happy to play our part in recognising brilliant HR, inspiring HR teams across Asia, and raising standards across all areas of human capital management.”

Open only to in-house corporate HR teams, the HR Excellence Awards this year will celebrate high achievement in 23 categories which cover HR strategy, compensation & benefits, learning & development, corporate social responsibility, employee engagement, diversity, employer branding, leadership development and many more.

As always, the HR Excellence Awards are judged solely by an esteemed jury of over 60 regional heads of HR from around Asia, making the HR Excellence Awards the only HR awards in Asia based on a peer review system.

Companies represented on the HR Excellence Awards jury are the most respected Fortune 500 organisations and some of the biggest employers in Asia and the 2015 jury is no different.

Past HR Excellence Awards winners are a who’s who of the most respected HR teams in Asia – AccorHotels, Agilent Technologies, ANZ Bank, Astro Holdings, BASF, BMW, Cisco Systems, DBS Bank, Dell, Deloitte, eBay, Ericsson, Ernst & Young, Facebook, Fuji Xerox, Google, Groupon, KPMG, Land Transport Authority, Malaysia Airports, Manulife, Maybank, McCann Erickson, Media Prima, Ministry of Manpower, National Environment Agency, PwC, Philips, Samsung, Siemens, Singapore Telecommunications, SMRT Corporation, Star Publications, Starwood Hotels, Thomson Reuters, UPS, VMWare, Unilever, Waggener Edstrom and many more have all proudly accepted HR Excellence Awards trophies over the years.

The awards are 10 weeks away but there’s no time to lose – the first entry deadline is only three weeks away.

For more information on the HR Excellence Awards and to review the award categories, ,judging panel and to download the entry kit please visit www.hrexcellenceawards.asia or contact Seraphine Neoh on seraphinen@humanresourcesonline.net or call +65 6423 0329.