Transport for London’s (TfL) Amy Selway has won this year’s Newcomer-Graduate of the Year Award at the RailStaff Awards 2012.
Amy, who works as a Change and Effectiveness specialist at TfL in the Human Resources department, joined the company’s graduate trainee programme after gaining a first class honours degree in Human Resource Management and Business from Oxford Brookes University.
At TfL Amy worked on Project Horizon, helping reform and unite the organisation’s HR function. She redesigned the HR operating model and launched ‘OneHR’, a fully integrated, streamlined HR function which removed duplication and exceeded TfL’s savings target.
Amy said: “The fact that it’s the newcomer of the year award is pretty special. I think it kind of sets the pathway for what I’m going to do in the rest of my career.
“I started on the graduate scheme, and I was taken off the graduate scheme in order to deliver this project that I’ve won the award for, so I think they recognised that I was working hard and putting my life and soul into the project.”
Tom O’Connor, managing director of the Rail Media Group which organises the RailStaff Awards, said: “That the rail industry and in particular TfL is attracting people of the talent and enthusiasm of Amy Selway is reassuring and gives all of us greater confidence. We all wish Amy every success in the future and thank her for her contribution to TfL so far.”
TfL runs the London Underground, the Docklands Light Railway (DLR), trams, buses and the London Overground. It is driving a substantial investment in the upgrade of the London Underground pioneering a level of renewal and refurbishment work on a scale unseen for more than 60 years.
Runners up included Craig Carless of Bridgeway Consulting and Ben Leathley of Bridgezone; both were highly commended.
The Newcomer-Graduate of the Year Award is sponsored by LPA Group Plc.
