Occupation Atlascall centre agent
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/0ededdc2-050a-4ec3-8e70-6295105fcd19
call centre agent
Call centre agents handle incoming or outgoing customer calls for a business. They call existing and prospective customers to promote goods and services. They also obtain sales and arrange sales visits.
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Job Zone
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 2: Some Preparation Needed
Some preparation. Usually a high school diploma, some previous work-related skill or experience, and a few months to a year of training with experienced workers.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
ECSEnterprising · Conventional · Social — the three strongest interests, in order
- E Enterprising5.36
- C Conventional5.07
- S Social3.61
- R Realistic1.87
- A Artistic1.24
- I Investigative1.09
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Telemarketers (41-9041.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (17)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- adapt to changing situations
- characteristics of products
- characteristics of services
- communicate by telephone
- create solutions to problems
- credit card payments
- guarantee customer satisfaction
- handle tasks independently
- have computer literacy
- keep task records
- listen actively
- perform multiple tasks at the same time
- present reports
- process data
- speak different languages
- tolerate stress
- use customer relationship management software
Optional (15)
- answer incoming calls
- apply operations for an ITIL-based environment
- communication principles
- e-commerce systems
- e-procurement
- educate on data confidentiality
- handle helpdesk problems
- knowledge base
- perform data analysis
- perform escalation procedure
- prioritise requests
- provide ICT support
- provide customer follow-up services
- teamwork principles
- think proactively
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 17 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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