What You'll Do

  • Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
  • Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
  • Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
  • Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
  • Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
  • Perform administrative duties, such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping.
  • Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
  • Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and goods related to eyes, in general.
  • Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
  • Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.

Essential Skills

Speaking 4.0/5
Active Listening 3.88/5
Reading Comprehension 3.75/5
Critical Thinking 3.5/5
Service Orientation 3.5/5
Writing 3.25/5
Social Perceptiveness 3.25/5
Coordination 3.25/5
Persuasion 3.25/5
Active Learning 3.0/5
Monitoring 3.0/5
Complex Problem Solving 3.0/5

Career Fit Overview

Use this summary to understand the kind of profile this role rewards. It helps you judge whether this career looks like a stronger match than your current role, a nearby move worth exploring, or a broader path to compare more seriously.

Top passions

  • Organizer: Bringing order to data and processes satisfies you.
  • Maker: Building and fixing energizes you. You like tangible results and practical tools.
  • Leader: Taking charge and moving ideas forward motivates you.

Common styles

Attention to Detail, Dependability, Cautiousness, Cooperation, Social Orientation

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Oral Comprehension 4.0/5
Oral Expression 4.0/5
Near Vision 3.88/5
Written Comprehension 3.75/5
Speech Recognition 3.75/5
Speech Clarity 3.75/5
Written Expression 3.62/5
Problem Sensitivity 3.62/5

Technologies & Tools

Compulink Eyecare Advantage Cygnet Infotech Optifocus Database software Diversified Ophthalmics Practice Maximus EMRlogic Systems ENTERPRISE Visions EZ-Zone Optizone Enterprise First Insight MaximEyes HealthLine Systems Eyecom Insight Software My Vision Express Intuit QuickBooks Inventory management systems Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office software Microsoft Word OfficeMate Software Solutions OfficeMate Point of sale POS software Specialist Data Solutions OctoPlus Word processing software

Work Environment & Strengths

Common Strengths for This Career

  • Attention to Detail (High importance: 4.85/5)
  • Dependability (High importance: 4.48/5)
  • Cautiousness (High importance: 4.37/5)
  • Cooperation (High importance: 4.35/5)
  • Social Orientation (High importance: 4.34/5)

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How to Become One

This career typically requires vocational school, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some specialized training or certification may also be required.

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Also Known As

This career is known by many different job titles across industries. Here are all the variations:

Certified Optician Contact Lens Fitter Contact Lens Technician Dispensing and Measuring Optician Dispensing Optician Eyeglass Fitter Eyewear Specialist Licensed Dispensing Optician (LDO) Licensed Optical Dispenser Licensed Optician Ophthalmic Dispenser Optical Dispenser Optical Sales Associate Optical Technician Optician Optometric Technician Registered Optician

Career Fit FAQs

Is this career a good fit for me

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Can this help if I want to stay in my field

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