Finding a new passion through Home Visits
Esther Crossley, a domiciliary optical assistant based in South Yorkshire, shares how it’s never too late to change direction.
World Hearing Day 2022: Changing lives through better hearing
To mark 2022 World Hearing Day, we asked Specsavers hearcare professionals to tell us about how their work makes such a difference to their patients’ lives every day
Optometrist Chantelle Van Staden on gaining CORU registration to practice in Ireland
Chantelle Van Staden is originally from South Africa and currently works as an optometrist at Specsavers Swords in Dublin. We caught up with her to hear about what it was like to go through the CORU recognition process to practice in Ireland, and her journey to Specsavers Partnership. There’s no such thing as too much […]
National Apprentice Week 2022 – Build the future, Charlotte Barsdell
We’ve proudly supported 1200 apprentices to successfully complete the programme over the last 5 years, and 90% have stayed with us and continued their professional development. Charlotte Barsdell knows first-hand how a Specsavers Apprenticeship seeds a lifelong career. She admits she didn’t quite know what was involved when she applied but was interested in the […]
National Apprentice Week 2022 – Build the future, Toby Fisher
In this brief series celebrating the impressive successes of our apprentices, you will discover there’s more to the 13-month programme than life-experience and learning. It’s about finding your passion and creating the foundation for a brilliant career. Toby Fisher started at Specsavers with a Saturday job in store, getting to know how the store ran […]
See your career at Specsavers: From retail to technology, Len Jenning’s career story
Len first joined Specsavers as an optical assistant in our Chichester store purely because he’d run out of savings and needed a job, little did he know that 15 years later he’d still be here (with one detour along the way)!
The personal touch: making a difference through Home Visits
Sanveer Benning, a domiciliary partner based in South East England, shares what attracted him to the role and why he enjoys it.
See your career at Specsavers: Stacy tells us why now is the time to kick start your career in technology at Specsavers
This week we spoke with Stacy Coath our Retail Technology Delivery Manager who talks to us about some of this amazing work and his career journey at Specsavers so far.
Climbing the retail ladder to Partnership with Conor Dewey
A chance job ad was all it took to spark Conor Dewey’s very successful career. Today he is a Retail Director for two stores in Ireland.
See your career at Specsavers: Joining Specsavers during the pandemic – Sam’s story
Meet Sam Craig our Director of Frame Development. Sam joined Specsavers as the pandemic hit, working remotely has it’s challenges but it hasn’t stopped Sam getting fully embedded into our unique culture, something we are quite proud of.