How to Optimize your LinkedIn Profile to attract employers.

LinkedIn, the biggest business platform in the world with over 500 million users, is becoming a serious source for recruiters to find potential candidates. As a company, we have invested in LinkedIn Recruiter, with many of our Talent Resourcing Executives spending lots of time searching for candidates on the platform. With that being said, we thought we would summarise the key must do’s when it comes to making sure… Read more

How to recognise if a company isn’t the right fit for you.

There is lots of advice for employers about what you can do to avoid hiring the wrong person. In this article, we want to focus on the job seeker and how to recognise if an organisation is right for them. Below are 5 steps you should follow when searching for a new role. 1. Pay attention to the communication during the interview process If you are looking for… Read more

The most commonly asked interview questions and how to answer them.

According to Monster, one of the leading job board sites in the UK, there are ten questions that are most likely to pop up in your interview. Here at Aldena, it is our responsibility to give our candidates the best guidance when it comes to securing their dream job. What a better way to do this than to inform them about the most commonly asked questions and how… Read more

The Happiest Jobs in the UK!

Glassdoor is a job website that has attempted to rank the happiest jobs in the UK for 2018. Lets read.  10) Project Manager This is the person who makes sure that every part of a project fits together – both on time and on budget – and that all people involved do their jobs correctly. Their median base salary is £44,000 and Glassdoor gives them a job satisfaction rating… Read more

LEDs Magazine: the largest and most highly known LED publication.

LEDs magazine is one of the largest and most highly known LED publications in the industry. If you haven't heard of them, you probably haven't been going to the right places for information. On the blog, LEDs Magazine publishes commentary and observations on the LED and solid-state lighting (SSL) industry, covering various angles on the latest business, scientific findings, and emerging applications of LEDs, including contributions from qualified… Read more

UK Workers Spend Over 82,000 Hours at Work Over Their Lifetime.

Based on the average UK salary, each UK worker will end up a millionaire – but not in one go. A lifetime’s wages add up to £1,260,720 – enough to fill just a suitcase in £50 notes. The average employee will spend a total of 82,068 hours working over their lifetime, the equivalent to working a 9.4 year shift or 3,420 days of non-stop working. Over that time, the average employee… Read more

The Lighting Design Awards 2018.

Projects from 18 countries – including Korea, India, Australia, Norway, Sweden, the US, the UK, France, Spain, Germany, the UAE, Switzerland and Greece – have been recognised and rewarded at the forty-second Lighting Design Awards in London. The winners were announced at a glamorous black-tie event at the London Hilton Park Lane attended by over 700 designers, architects and suppliers and hosted by comedian Mark Watson. The global… Read more

Aldena Associates Ltd. Why use us?

Tangible Time Savers We can save you days of 'wasted' time sifting through applications so that you only have to make time to view those worth considering We schedule interviews: you only have to prepare and turn up We deal with all administrative issues such as all communications with applicants, including notifying unsuccessful ones and providing feedback; and verifying candidate information (e.g. qualifications and references) Efficiency We will… Read more