When people start looking for another optical job, there are usually a few things they want to know straight away. What's the salary? Where is the practice? What are the working hours? Will I have to work Saturdays? Is it an independent or a multiple? All perfectly sensible questions. If you're an Optometrist, you'll probably want to know about testing times, equipment and clinical opportunities. If you're a Dispensing Optician, you might be interested in the product range, m

There's a strange assumption in recruitment that people only start looking for another job when something has gone wrong. Perhaps they don't like their manager, they're unhappy with their salary, the working hours have become difficult or they've simply had enough of the company they're working for. Whatever the reason, we tend to imagine that looking for another job must mean somebody wants to escape their current one. But that's not always how careers work. You can be perfe

Most people have a reputation at work. The interesting part is that they don't always know what it is. Ask somebody to describe themselves professionally and you'll usually hear things like hardworking, reliable, ambitious, organised or good with people. Those are perfectly reasonable descriptions, but they aren't necessarily the words their colleagues would use if you weren't in the room. That is where things become more interesting. What happens when a problem appears and s

Some Mondays are just bad. You wake up tired, the journey to work doesn't go to plan, your inbox is already full before you've properly started and the first meeting of the morning somehow creates three more problems than it solves. A customer is unhappy, a colleague is off sick, a deadline has moved and your manager chooses today to ask about the one thing you haven't quite finished. By lunchtime, you're looking at job vacancies. By three o'clock, you're imagining yourself w