Overview
Customer Service Representative - Post Falls, ID. Contract.
Responsibilities
- Confer with customers by telephone or in person to provide information about products or services, take or enter orders, cancel accounts, or obtain details of complaints.
- Keep records of customer interactions or transactions, recording details of inquiries, complaints, or comments, as well as actions taken.
- Check to ensure that appropriate changes were made to resolve customers' problems.
- Determine charges for services requested, collect deposits or payments, or arrange for billing.
- Refer unresolved customer grievances to designated departments for further investigation.
- Review insurance policy terms to determine whether a particular loss is covered by insurance.
- Contact customers to respond to inquiries or to notify them of claim investigation results or any planned adjustments.
- Resolve customers\' service or billing complaints by performing activities such as exchanging merchandise, refunding money, or adjusting bills.
- Compare disputed merchandise with original requisitions and information from invoices and prepare invoices for returned goods.
- Obtain and examine all relevant information to assess validity of complaints and to determine possible causes, such as extreme weather conditions that could increase utility bills.
Tools and Technology
- Autodialers — Autodialing systems; Predictive dialers
- Automated attendant systems — Voice broadcasting systems
- Automatic call distributor (ACD) — Automatic call distribution ACD system
- Scanners; Standalone telephone caller identification — Calling line identification equipment; Dialed number identification systems (DNIS)
- Contact center software — Avaya software; Multi-channel contact center software; Timpani Contact Center; Timpani Email
- Customer relationship management (CRM) software — Austin Logistics CallSelect; Avidian Technologies Prophet; SSA Global software; Telemation e-CRM
- Electronic mail software — Astute Solutions PowerCenter; IBM Lotus Notes; Microsoft Outlook
- Network conferencing software — Active Data Online WebChat; eStara Softphone; Parature eRealtime; Timpani Chat
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services.
- Clerical — Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
- English Language — Knowledge of English language structure and grammar.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to others, understanding points, asking appropriate questions, and not interrupting.
- Speaking — Conveying information effectively.
- Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Persuasion — Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify strengths and weaknesses of solutions.
- Writing — Communicating effectively in writing.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.
- Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others\' reactions and understanding why.
- Negotiation — Bringing others together and reconciling differences.
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