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Hiring the right CSRs is one of the most important steps to building a great call center team. Remember, agents are the only people on the call center team that have direct interactions with the customer! So, while it is important to make sure our call center team is properly trained for the client, we have to start by hiring the right agents.
We sat down with our VP of Human Resources, Cyndi McDurmott, to discuss how The Connection® builds the perfect team.
Our Four-Pronged Approach
1. Online Application
At this stage, it is important to weed out applicants who are not built for the call center environment. We do so by asking specific questions that, hopefully, paint a picture of each applicant’s strengths and weaknesses.
We are looking for applicants who want to please and help people — those are the agents who will learn business-specific information and use it to provide the best customer support.
2. Skills-Based Testing
Once the applicant passes the online application, they have to take some tests to prove their ability in various skills required as a call center agent. These tests could be a navigation test, typing test, etc. The tests we give to the applicant may depend on the needs of our client.
3. Behavioral-Based Interviewing
Finally, we get to meet the candidate face to face! In this interview, we try to get a feel for how they handle conversations or react to unique situations that are likely to come up as a call center agent. Agents need to be able to think on their toes because they never know what the next customer may say!
4. To Hire or Not to Hire
Assuming a candidate passed the first three prongs of our hiring process, they should be a great fit for our clients! A successful candidate can think on their feet, be proficient in typing and researching online, be a quick study in knowing the client they’re representing, and have clear dictation and strong conversational skills.
There are many skills that can make an agent perfect for our clients and they vary on a case-by-case basis. But by having the right hiring process in place, we can ensure that only the best agents make it through to The Connection®. If you want to learn more or get some tips on hiring for yourself, contact us!
Call Center Studio Call Center Studio is the world’s first call center built on Google and is one of the most secure and stable systems with some of the industry’s best reporting. It is one of the most full-featured enterprise grade systems (with the most calling features, one of the best call distribution, outbound dialing features and integrations—including IVR, AI Speech Recognition, blended inbound/outbound calling and includes Google’s new Dialogflow and Speech API. Call Center Studio is the absolute easiest to use (with a 10 minute setup), and is the price performance leader with lower equipment cost and less setup time.
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iNextrix Technologies
iCallify iCallify: intelligent call center software is one of the most popular products offered by iNextrix. iCallify is developed using cutting edge technologies as well as the predictive sphere of artificial intelligence. This call center software has some intelligent features along with the standard features available in other call center solutions. Thus, it is truly an intelligent call center software solution. This intelligent call center software is built to benefit all businesses, no matter what industry vertical they belong to. This call center software has features to empower different campaigns in different call centers and businesses.
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Accordia Solution
Accordia Solution CIS Accordia Solution is an innovative developer of seamlessly integrated cost-effective omnichannel Contact Center Solutions specifically targeted at the micro, small and medium operations.Our core business model involves the development and marketing of IP Telephony and IP Contact Center Solutions. We also strive to develop customer interaction solutions which include contact center and customer relationship management (CRM) that enhances Customer Experience Of The Future (CEOTF) and optimizes agent productivity.
Our flagship product, the Accordia Customer Interaction Suites (CIS), offers comprehensive functionality by helping your business meet and exceed the level of service in line with... (read more)Accordia Solution is an innovative developer of seamlessly integrated cost-effective omnichannel Contact Center Solutions specifically targeted at the micro, small and medium operations.Our core business model involves the development and marketing of IP Telephony and IP Contact Center Solutions. We also strive to develop customer interaction solutions which include contact center and customer relationship management (CRM) that enhances Customer Experience Of The Future (CEOTF) and optimizes agent productivity.
Our flagship product, the Accordia Customer Interaction Suites (CIS), offers comprehensive functionality by helping your business meet and exceed the level of service in line with the expectations of your customers while driving your employees' productivity and controlling your operational costs.
Are you ready to provide exceptional customer experience?
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Adversus Dialer
Adverus Dialer Adversus is a web-based dialer and practical CRM solution for telemarketing, fundraising, and appointment scheduling businesses.
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Alcor Consulting, Inc.
HoduCC/VoipCor Omnichannel contact center platform which can be deployed on-premise, private cloud or public cloud subscription. Our contact center provides all of the modern features expected in a full contact center solution. Includes voice, SMS, chat, email, and social media integration. Built-in integrations for all major CRM's (Plus a built-in CRM). Survey module and QA module are also available.
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Allstream
Contact Center Contact Center is a powerful tool that you can add to your unified communications (UC) solution to ensure you've always got the right resources available to both customers and employees, no matter the communication channel they're using — voice, email, web, chat or social.
Contact Center’s enhanced call routing and workforce management tools can help increase employee productivity. And with the advanced reporting and forecasting tools, you’ll be able to properly staff your contact center and enhance your customer experience.
It has everything you need to deliver superior customer and employee experience.
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Alvaria
Alvaria Cloud Alvaria Cloud is the only enterprise cloud contact center solution that allows you to adopt best-of-breed Customer Experience (CX) and Workforce Engagement Management (WEM) applications modularly. Start with one or more applications and then add applications with ease when ready for additional capabilities, as your needs change. With the Alvaria Cloud Platform, you have the advantage of knowing that all provisioning, security, user management and other administrative tasks are already configured and in place.
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Alvaria
Noble Contact Center Noble offers a modern communications platform for optimizing all customer interaction. Put Noble’s unified platform to work for you — building performance and productivity, improving the quality and effectiveness of customer contacts, and reducing costs. With the critical software technologies that contact centres need most, our solutions provide seamless integration to existing corporate environments, reduce your learning curve and protect your technology investments.
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Amtelco
Genesis Intelligent Series Genesis is the latest advancement in Amtelco’s long line of call center solutions. This call center technology is entirely software-based and virtualized, with cloud-based capability. Genesis provides skills-based automatic call distribution (ACD), built-in speech recognition, text-to-speech (TTS), and voice services to improve call routing and management.
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Arise Virtual Solutions
The Arise Platform Arise is a pioneer of on-demand customer management business process outsourcing solutions, headquartered in Florida. Through the cloud-based Arise Platform, Fortune 50 and other companies connect to Service Partners who deliver authentic, loyalty-building interactions with their customers. Delivering radical flexibility to meet even extreme contact volume fluctuations, the award-winning Arise Platform is an innovative alternative to the traditional contact center.
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Astute Solutions
Astute Agent Astute Agent gives your agents everything they need to work cases confidently and efficiently. This modern case management CRM is the preferred choice for Consumer Relations and Customer Care teams who support some of the world’s most prestigious brands.
Astute Agent balances agent efficiency with customer experience. Here’s how:
- Automated email responses Using natural language processing, Astute Agent reads incoming customer emails and automatically supplies a response to agents to review and send.
- Auto-populated case fields AI capabilities automatically suggest reason codes, product codes, and other case information, saving agents minutes per case.
- Time-saving case feat... (read more)Astute Agent gives your agents everything they need to work cases confidently and efficiently. This modern case management CRM is the preferred choice for Consumer Relations and Customer Care teams who support some of the world’s most prestigious brands.
Astute Agent balances agent efficiency with customer experience. Here’s how:
- Automated email responses Using natural language processing, Astute Agent reads incoming customer emails and automatically supplies a response to agents to review and send.
- Auto-populated case fields AI capabilities automatically suggest reason codes, product codes, and other case information, saving agents minutes per case.
- Time-saving case features Integrating all contact channels into one CRM interface, combined with time-saving features like field auto-complete, ensures agents can work cases quickly and effectively.
- Customer profile and history Show agents relevant customer information, like location, loyalty status, and interaction history, right on the CRM case screen.
- Next best actions With suggested next actions like case codes, responses, and enclosures, even your newest agents can work cases with confidence.
- Built-in knowledge Astute’s integrated knowledge engine lets agents quickly find answers to any question – without having to leave the case workflow.
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Brook Trout Solutions
CCaaS, SIP Trunking, SD WAN, Interconnectivity Brook Trout Solutions provides Technology Guide services to help Contact Centers find the best possible solution for their business. We represent the leaders for CCaaS, CPaaS, SD-WAN, SASE, SIP. We identify the best fit for our customers and help them manage the lifecycle of the customer engagement. We also have an excellent solution for mobile marketing and can raise call acceptance by more than 50% with a Next Generation caller ID for mobile phones. We solve problems and give our customers time back to run their business. Give us a call we have world class expertise and resources that can help you build an exceptional customer experience.
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Callnfax
Voice & Video Services at the Speed of Business CallnFax offers global virtual telephone numbers with Flat-Rate pricing, A-Z termination service with full CNAM support, and full-featured video meeting solutions. CallnFax has been delivering reliable solutions since 2009, accompanied with personalized customer support, designed for Call Centers, Contact Centers, and Global Enterprise.
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CallShaper
CallShaper Welcome to CallShaper – Harnessing the Power of the Cloud for Greater Sales Efficiency For sales-based call centers, where margins are so tight, it’s all about closing. Thanks to CallShaper, inbound or outbound call center directors can have a dynamic, highly flexible platform that enables sales agents to focus on making the sale.
Thanks to CallShaper’s flexibility, call center directors who are managing multiple vendors from multiple locations can have everything they need on one platform that offers 99.999% reliability. And when it comes to reporting, CallShaper has no equal in providing real-time transparency.
With CallShaper, clients quickly find that they are better able to manage efficiencies at the sales rep level – and make more money!
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Cloud Call Center Search
From AI - WFO and everything in between! Cloud Call Center Search has spent hundreds of hours evaluating and vetting leading cloud software applications (Omni-Channel, Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Workforce Management and many others) and their actual use in the trenches with real-world clients. As a result, we understand the strengths and weaknesses of cloud-based call center software solutions. At NO charge, Cloud Call Center Search will match your organization with the cloud software providers that are the best fit to drive positive ROI in your customer experience, sales, and back-office operations.
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ContactCenter4ALL
CC4Teams Contact Center solutions; that is what we do! So we know, like no other, that integrating natively with Microsoft, making our solution available on the same screen is what your customer contact team needs. CC4Teams enhances Microsoft Teams with features and adds additional functionality to use Microsoft Teams as a complete Omni-ChannelContact Center solution.
For example, CC4Teams adds our proprietary drag and drop IVR (no code needed), ad-hoc or scheduled call recording, operator attendant, historical and real-time reporting (integrates with Microsoft PowerBi), wallboards, home workers, supervisor functionalities, and skilled based routing directly to Microsoft Teams. The intuitive CC4... (read more)Contact Center solutions; that is what we do! So we know, like no other, that integrating natively with Microsoft, making our solution available on the same screen is what your customer contact team needs. CC4Teams enhances Microsoft Teams with features and adds additional functionality to use Microsoft Teams as a complete Omni-ChannelContact Center solution.
For example, CC4Teams adds our proprietary drag and drop IVR (no code needed), ad-hoc or scheduled call recording, operator attendant, historical and real-time reporting (integrates with Microsoft PowerBi), wallboards, home workers, supervisor functionalities, and skilled based routing directly to Microsoft Teams. The intuitive CC4Teams user interface offers the same user experience you're accustomed to; your Contact Center agents will learn to use the software in no time.
Our Contact Center software is designed in close collaboration with people who actually use it. As a result, the user interface is easy to use and easy to manage. Using CC4Teams has proven to translate to a boost in your Contact Center productivity.
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Contaque
Contaque VERVE Cloud or On-Premise? Elevate Customer Experience Either Way with Our Contact Center Solutions!
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Content Guru
𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗺® Content Guru makes engagement easy. A global leader in cloud communications solutions, we deliver off-the-shelf and bespoke customer engagement and cloud contact centre services, through the multi-award-winning 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗺® platform.
Europe’s largest Customer Engagement and Experience platform, 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗺, brings together intelligent automation, third-party systems integration, and on-demand scalability to enhance all customer communication functions. With true omni-channel engagement capabilities, 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗺 gives organisations the power to create consistent and seamless experiences for customers, inspiring loyalty and powering success.
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Convoso
Convoso is the #1 dialer software for outbound lead gen/sales-related contact centers. Our cloud-based omnichannel solution solves the biggest frustrations call centers have with their dialer, including:
*Caller ID reputation *Call flagging/blocking *Low contact rates *Limited insight into list performance *Time wasted resetting lead lists *Dropped calls *Poor answering machine detection
Customers report dramatic increases in contact rates of up to 300%, delivering more conversions and significantly improved ROI.
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CSX Cloud
CSX Cloud CSX Cloud provides a full omnichannel cloud-based turn-key customer communications solution as a service based on a monthly subscription with no long term commitments. Our easy to use solution and top-notch customer service makes it an easy choice to get started today.
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