Available Part-time Off Campus Positions
Keno Optical
Needs any year student for Part-time at Gray’s Lake location.
Responsibilities include dispensing, shop work, filing and checking out finished work.
Contact: Dr. Grostick or Dr. Lieberman at 773-736-6800 or 312-782-4208
Lenscrafters on Michigan Avenue
Needs any year student as Part time Optometric technician.
Responsibilites include preliminary entrance testing (VA’s, autorefraction, retinal photos, VF’s. color vision, stereopsis), general office help, and contact lens procedures.
Contact: Dr. Jim Sementilli @ 312-819-0206 or 773-252-3333. This is a tremendous opportunity to learn practice management in our very successful and high profile office.
Occhiali on N. Wells
High End Boutique in Old Town needs any year student for Part-time help (Saturdays mainly). Responsibilities included eyewear sales, explaining lens options, eyeglass adjustment, lensometry (lens neutralization/verifications), ordering merchandise and store/frame maintenance.
Contact: Lisa at 312-255-1977
Professional Practice Resource Center/ Placement Program
In order to better serve the needs and interests of ICO students and alumni, several programs have been initiated by the Professional Practice Resource Center to actively promote optometric practice opportunities. Students are encouraged to participate in the activities sponsored by the Professional Practice Resource Center during all four years of the ICO experience.
The Center provides one-on-one meetings with 4th year students to profile their practice interests. Information provided to the students includes a sample curriculum vitae (professional resume), interview tips, state board information, state association information, state of the profession report, salary information, outside placement programs, American Optometric Association’s National Practice Resource Network applications, business plan information, and more.
The center also sponsors the Placement Program at the Illinois College of Optometry which is on-line and interactive through ICO’s website. Through the use of this online program, we are able to assist students, new graduates and alumni with locating practice opportunities and hiring new doctors for practices based on demographic information such as location, type of practice, community preference, etc. Practice opportunities for today’s optometrists are more varied than ever before: by utilizing this on-line interactive program we can assist our students and alumni in finding the best positions or best qualified ICO graduates to fit their needs.
The Professional Practice Resource Center also assists students in locating part-time and summer positions in optometric settings.
The Private Practice Club works closely with the Professional Practice Resource Center. They conduct several meetings during the academic year where private practitioners and practice consultants speak to students on all aspects of successfully operating a private practice. Meetings include everything from debt management, evaluating the worth of a practice, understanding a purchase or associateship contract, to writing a business plan.
The Center also sponsors an annual Practice Opportunities Symposium to help students correctly envision the many options and opportunities as they begin the practice of optometry. Representatives from optometric associations, private practices, group practices, residency programs, government and corporate optometry, and all the myriad configurations are in attendance and meet with students to discuss employment opportunities.
All of these initiatives are provided as a complimentary service to ICO students and alumni.