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9 Transferable (and Desirable) Skills You Gain Working in Customer Support

Nicereply

One example that comes immediately to mind is customer support. Below are 9 transferable (and desirable) skills you gain working in customer support. A lot of the time customers just know that something isn’t working right, but don’t know exactly why. Time management. Troubleshooting.

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The Impact Of Remote Work On Workforce Management

Playvox

For example, a customer support center might enjoy lower costs when they don’t have to support a physical location, while agents might have higher productivity since they no longer need to spend time and energy commuting to and from an office.

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Welcome to the Contact Center

Call Center Weekly

While some of this may be well deserved, most are based on a few bad experiences, or a stereotype from times past. Sadly, that stereotype often suggests the support staff is less educated, entry level, and unfriendly. Many years ago when I started in this industry, most considered customer support roles as entry level positions.

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6 Questions to Assess Your Contact Center’s Readiness to Identify Customer-Impacting Issues

Customer Service Life

Before reporting to engineering we get a sense of how many customers are impacted by the issue. Upon realizing the wide impact, the question that inevitably arises is: How did it take the customer support team so long to discover this issue? They derive a sense of purpose and accomplishment by improving the customer experience.

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Increase Your Call Center’s Efficiency with a Hybrid Dialer Solution

NobelBiz

Hold Time: Calls that exceed a specified hold time threshold are recycled. Hold Time Management Timely Call Initiation: Ensures calls are initiated in a timely manner. Default Setting: Default hold time is set to 3 seconds.

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3 Secrets to Avoiding Job Burnout in Customer Service

CSM Magazine

If you want to maintain your mental well-being while juggling between college and your customer service job, take some pressure off your back by optimizing your most challenging tasks. Find an online tutor for difficult courses, utilize essay examples for writing tasks, and seek other free online educational tools.

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Customer Success: The Ultimate Guide

JustCall

Data analysis: In addition to analyzing customer data to identify trends and patterns that can help improve the product or service, the customer success team tracks customer satisfaction, usage metrics, and other key performance indicators. Time to resolution: Time to resolution measures how quickly customer issues are resolved.