Optician

# Career Prospects after the MBO Optician Program After completing the MBO Optician program, you stand at the start of a versatile career in eye care. Most graduates find work in optical shops, from large chains like Pearle and Hans Anders to smaller, independent optical businesses. Here you work as an optician with diverse tasks: performing eye measurements, fitting glasses and contact lenses, advising customers, and sales. Many opticians choose entrepreneurship after several years of work experience and start their own optical shop. The program prepares you well for this by teaching both technical and commercial skills. Additionally, there are opportunities in hospitals, eye clinics, and at suppliers of optical products, where you work in more specialized functions or as a product specialist. The advancement opportunities are good: from assistant optician to independent optician, team leader, branch manager, or entrepreneur. You can also specialize further in contact lenses or low vision aids. Expected Developments Opportunities arise from the aging population, which structurally increases the demand for glasses and eye care. Technological developments such as online eye tests and personalized lenses offer new possibilities. Threats include the growing online sales of glasses and increasing competition between optical chains, which puts pressure on traditional optical shops.