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Celebrating 13 Years of HR Excellence!
Recognising Malaysia’s Leading HR Achievements
Welcome to the 13th Annual HR Excellence Awards Malaysia 2025, a distinguished platform celebrating the remarkable achievements and innovations in human resources management across Malaysia.
As we mark this significant milestone, our 2025 edition will highlight the most impactful HR strategies, forward-thinking policies, and groundbreaking initiatives that have set new standards in employee engagement, organisational effectiveness, and business success.
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With 42 carefully selected categories, the HR Excellence Awards continues to be the go-to event for HR professionals and industry pioneers to connect, celebrate, and recognise the outstanding organisations shaping the future of HR in Malaysia.
We invite you to join us in honouring your HR team’s dedication and celebrating the extraordinary milestones achieved over the past year.
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What’s new in 2025?
We are excited to announce the addition of a new category for 2025:
Excellence in
Championing Women Leaders
This category recognises organisations that have
demonstrated exceptional commitment
to promoting and nurturing
women in leadership roles.
You have until 11 July 2025 to complete and submit your entries.
A journey through #HRExcellenceAwards
Honouring the best-in class HR teams, and individuals, for their spectacular work executed across the entire HR function, the awards show aims to bring together talented HR professionals as one force to champion the way forward.
This is also the region’s only HR awards that is peer-reviewed by a jury of esteemed HR practitioners.
This year we will dive deeper into the quality of work put forth to the esteemed jury and narrow down Malaysia’s most commendable teams – so start preparing your entries early!
Add your name to HR Excellence Awards hall of fame:
Create buzz around your deserving work
Blowing your own trumpet as some might say, but this is about giving yourself a pat on the back and recognising a job well done. Boost your team morale and prove your worth to the business.
Pause from the hustle and bustle to look back at your milestones
Wow! You have weathered through all the storms – internal restructuring, getting buy-in from management for budget approval – and you have never shrugged your responsibilities as a business partner.
As you prepare your entries, take this time to regroup as a team and look back on your journey and achievements over the past year.
Inspire and lead through change
Dare to be different. It begins with leading with the right mindset as this will be the best source of motivation that will help redefine your team’s purpose, acknowledge the contributions of your team members and pave the path for greater heights. .
Build a legacy bigger than you can imagine
Nothing comes easy without hard work. Be recognised and credited for being the trailblazer that sets you apart from the rest.
Opening endless opportunities
A testament to your hard work, resilience, and grit, participating in the awards will open endless opportunities to further grow and nurture your team, for great employer branding. Be known as being part of an award-winning team (or individual) and add it to your list of achievements!
Entries will close on 11 July 2025 so start your entry today!
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Panel of judges
The HR Excellence Awards’ judging panel comprises eminent senior HR practitioners from the corporate and public sector.
For judging opportunities, please contact Chee Jean Wen at jeanwenc@humanresourcesonline.net or +65 6423 0329 (Ext 249).
Thiagarajan Veeran
Head of Human Resources
Ravinder Kaur
Cluster Head – Human Resources, Southeast Asia
2024 Finalists
Don’t take our word for it. Hear what PARTICIPANTS FROM OUR OTHER awardS have to say:
The energy is fantastic! It is buzzing and happy to see we have more than 200 HR professionals with us here in this room
Cegos
The quality of submissions is very high standard, and has good innovations and initiatives.
Avery Dennison Indonesia
As an Malaysian I’m very proud to see my colleagues in Malaysia really step up into international standards.
GSK Malaysia
This is a prestigious event and we can also see the judges coming from different industries as well as the participants are from local and global companies. It’s good for us to challenge each other.
Sinarmas Mining
It was an eye opener for me to know that there are companies that are doing so many good things and its very nice to see how they are employee-friendly and care for their people.
Goodhope Asia Holdings
You cannot buy into these awards, otherwise I would not participate. And this is nicely judged. A lot of attention to the detail is taken care of and that’s what I like.
HomeCredit Indonesia
2024 Video highlights
BRAND HIGHLIGHTS
A look at the finalists: HR Excellence Awards 2024, Malaysia
