Specsavers Careers and Employment

Hackney branch times are 9am to 6pm Mon-Sat and 10am to 5pm on Sundays.

Make sure directors are actually doing their job, our director at the stourbridge branch sits upstairs all day and does half a job, like telling patients he will call them back and doesn't or not bothering to put orders through correctly, cutting corners in the process, resulting in unhappy patients and making the specsavers brand look bad, also pay different staff more for higher roles as a meet and greeter gets paid the same as an optical assistant or a dispensing optician.

As stores a franchised it's the director who decides. At the store I work in we have axa insurance, so once a year you can have one pair specs or sunnies and it's discounted down to £105, we can then claim that back from axa, so we get them free. Also friends and family get 50% discount. The axa and specs are really great benefits, we have generous directors in that respect.

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I interviewed with their Airways Optical manufacturing and distribution branch. Long read ahead Applied online, the description was very brief, the job was stated to be focus in on day to day HR responsibilities (this turned out to be a lie, the job was payroll focused). There was no clear guidance on what they were looking for in terms of experience besides the very vague ‘administrative experience’. I applied before the closing date and received a call from the HR Manager who mentioned she’d seen my cv, she asked why I wanted to work there and pointed out my location was away from Southampton where they’re based, from the tone of her voice it was evident she was trying to turn me off the job. She then asked if I wanted to come for an interview, which was most likely done to meet a quota. I was later sent an email with the details of the interview, which included the job description and person specification which would have been useful if they’d added it to the job advert (this document turned out to be useless as the vacant role and the advert and document were completely different) I was told to bring some things with me which at the interview were not looked at or requested when I got there (go figure). I got to the office and waited in the waiting area (no actual reception) until someone (HR Officer) came to get me and took me into the interviewing room with the HR Manager. They mentioned it was a first interview which was not disclosed to me prior, then I was asked to talk them through my cv with the HR Manager looking at my experience in a very unimpressed manner. She asked why I chose to do a Master’s in HR full time as opposed to getting a job in HR and studying part time, I felt that was none of her business but I answered nevertheless. The tone of the interview let me know that I don’t want to pursue this application anymore, particularly as she disclosed she had concerns about my ability to succeed in the role due to not having HR experience, which she knew before inviting me to the interview (which she also knew would take me about 2 hours to travel there) and as I stated it was done to meet a quota. It took me about 3 hours to get there only to be interviewed for less than 15 minutes, a interview that would have been better as a phone interview as opposed to in person interview. What a waste of time and money

I had an interview on Monday and got a call on Saturday to confirm I'd got the job

We paid monthly

Paid monthly for all employees

28th of each month

At our store minimal jewellery and tattoos they prefer them minimal or not on show. Fake nails are no problem at all and length is not an issue either.

Black trousers and any top. No colour specified.

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