📢 TEC Inaugural Members Summit | November 5–6, 2026 | ZEISS Innovation Center, Dublin, California | Attendance by Invitation Only

📢 TEC Inaugural Members Summit | November 5–6, 2026 | ZEISS Innovation Center, Dublin, California | Attendance by Invitation Only

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Brand Highlights

Need to hire? Most practices only see two options: handle it all yourself, or pay a headhunter thousands of dollars per hire.

Hoops is a third option. For one low-cost annual membership, you get your own on-call hiring department: real people and modern AI tools, ready whenever you need them, for a fraction of what a traditional recruiter costs.

  • A dedicated hiring hotline, an easy-to-use applicant tracking system (ATS), salary data, and ready-to-use templates — over $8,000 in value, all included in your membership!
  • Need more help? Add low-cost recruiting services anytime, only when you need them, from job advertising to phone screening. No long-term recruiter contracts required.
  • A new program built specifically for independent optometry practices. Trusted by numerous practices with a 4.9-star rating (850+ Google reviews).
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Hoops is TEC’s preferred hiring partner.

Hoops has helped 1,000+ growing businesses hire better since 2016. Along the way, we built deep expertise in independent optometry. That experience shaped an exclusive program built specifically for practices like yours.

Our Hoops Hiring Concierge program combines AI-powered software with real, practical recruiting support, so you can hire great people without the high cost or headache of traditional recruiting firms.

From job postings to interviewing to onboarding, Hoops helps you manage the entire hiring process in one place. Practices use Hoops to hire for their entire staff, including front desk, technicians, opticians, practice managers, associate ODs, clinical leadership roles, and more.

TEC members get exclusive access to the Hoops Hiring Concierge program for just $199/year, with discounted pricing at $149 per additional location.

That’s over $8,000 in hiring software and support, included in one low-cost annual membership.

And when you need more hands-on help with a specific role, add recruiter services like job ads, candidate sourcing, or phone screening anytime, at a low additional cost. You only pay for what you use.

Everything below comes with your low-cost annual membership. Try building this yourself with separate software and recruiters, and the cost adds up fast, before you even hire anyone.

  1. Your Own Hiring Concierge. Think of us as your part-time recruiter on your team, without the full-time salary. A real person who knows optometry and knows how to recruit, on call whenever you need us.
  2. Hiring Advice Hotline & Email Support. Call or email anytime you have a hiring question. Real U.S.-based recruiter professionals with real support (not a chatbot).
  3. AI Resume Screening & Candidate Ranking. Our platform’s Hula AI reads every resume and puts your best-fit candidates on top, so you’re not digging through a stack of applications yourself.
  4. Applicant Tracking System (ATS). One place to see and organize every candidate, resume, and note, so nothing gets lost or forgotten.
  5. Salary Insights & Market Data. See what practices near you are actually paying for the role, so your offer is competitive from day one.
  6. Job Description, Interview Guide, and Offer Letter Templates. Ready-to-use documents written for eye care roles, so you’re attracting great talent faster.
  7. Recruiting Workflow Automation. Hoops automates the busywork behind every hire, from scheduling interviews to screening out candidates who don’t meet your must-haves, so nothing falls through the cracks.

 

  1. Join your membership. You get instant access to your hiring concierge, plus every tool and template included.
  2. Have an open role? Call or email your concierge. They help you post the job, screen resumes, and get interviews on the calendar.
  3. Want more hands-on help for that role? Add services like job ads or phone screening, only if you need them.
  4. You make the final call on every hire. We support every step you choose to use us for, whether that’s just the tools and templates, or full hands-on recruiting help.

 

The partnership between Hoops and TEC Eye Consortium helps independent optometry practices modernize hiring with affordable, AI-powered recruiting tools and personalized support. TEC members gain access to streamlined hiring workflows, practical recruiting resources, and flexible hiring solutions designed specifically for eye care practices.

Hear from Practice Owners that Love Hoops!

“There’s a little magic power that Hoops has where they get a lot more applicants, and that was not something we were anticipating. Like, great, they’ll find a couple good ones. No, we had quite a few.”
 — Dr. Brian Spittle, OD, Optometrist and Founder, The Eye Place

“It saved me a ton of time as far as the hiring process goes. And it was pretty much stress-free. Hoops did everything from finding the right person to making sure that they were comfortable with the salary that we were offering.”
 — Dr. Aaron Luekenga, OD, Optometrist and Owner, Heritage Valley Eye Care Optometric Center

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