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Michael Feetham is Specsavers Audiology’s 19th partner and our first South Australian partner, operating out of the Thebarton and West Lakes stores in Adelaide’s west. Following his first 12 months in business, he explains how his customers have found the Specsavers Audiology model, the challenges he’s faced and advice for prospective partners.
Specsavers will again be sponsoring the Association of Dispensing Opticians of New Zealand’s (ADONZ) annual conference in November, and is offering a number of Certificate IV in Optical Dispensing (Cert IV) students financial assistance to attend.
A number of Certificate IV in Optical Dispensing (Cert IV) students concluded a day of dispensing professional development with a celebration of their educational achievement.
The customer and how to meet their changing visual needs was front and centre at the third Specsavers Dispensing Conference (SDC3).
At Specsavers we are well versed in supporting overseas-trained optometrists to successfully complete OCANZ exams – enabling them to immigrate and practise here in Australia and New Zealand as fully-qualified local optometrists. Over the past nine years, our OCANZ Support team has helped over 130 overseas-trained optometrists through this program.
Envisioning a different lifestyle for her young family, Scottish optometrist Lesley Allan decided to move to Australia. Here, she describes the process of qualifying to practise optometry in Australia through the Optometry Council of Australia and New Zealand (OCANZ), and how, with Specsavers’ assistance, she was able to realise her dream.
Eighteen early-career optometrists that graduated from Deakin University two years ago have concluded their Specsavers Graduate Program journey with a presentation on the findings of their Year Two Project.
Only months after Shelley Wang and Ryan Gibson became Joint Venture Partners (JVPs) of Specsavers Glenfield in New Zealand, their store expanded to accommodate increasing demand and state-of-the-art technology. Shelley and Ryan, who graduated from the Pathway and Partner in Development programs, respectively, discuss how Specsavers’ partner development programs set them up for success and rapid business growth.
Specsavers store partners came together on Saturday 2 March at the ICC in Sydney’s Darling Harbour for the biennial Specsavers Partnership Seminar. More than 800 partners and support team members were present for the event, which was themed ‘#STRONGER’ as both groups looked ahead towards the continued strengthening of the Specsavers Joint Venture Partnership.
Keeping it simple’ is a core competency at Specsavers, so when it comes to explaining our Joint Venture Partnership or JVP model, we like to keep things transparent and to the point – so, here we focus on some of the essential ingredients in our recipe for success.
