Customer Service Representative - With Sales (Spanish)
Solicit donations or orders for goods or services over the telephone.
Top activities and tasks for this job:
- Deliver prepared sales talks, reading from scripts that describe products or services, to persuade potential customers to purchase a product or service or to make a donation.
- Contact businesses or private individuals by telephone to solicit sales for goods or services, or to request donations for charitable causes.
- Explain products or services and prices, and answer questions from customers.
- Obtain customer information such as name, address, and payment method, and enter orders into computers.
- Selling or Influencing Others - conduct sales presentations
- Record names, addresses, purchases, and reactions of prospects contacted.
- Obtain names and telephone numbers of potential customers from sources such as telephone directories, magazine reply cards, and lists purchased from other organizations.
- Adjust sales scripts to better target the needs and interests of specific individuals.
The HR Avatar Customer Service Representative - With Sales (Spanish) Pre-Employment Assessment was designed to help you hire staff in this role. The test provides a whole-person evaluation by measuring job-relevant cognitive ability, personality, knowledge, skills, and relevant behavioral history.
Each component provides important data for hiring decisions. Cognitive ability has been linked to overall job performance in most jobs and correlates with a candidate's
ability to learn new skills and to solve complex problems. Personality characteristics determine how well the candidate will fit-in with a corporate culture. Knowledge and skills indicate how much training will be needed before a new employee becomes productive. Finally, relevant behavioral history detects counter-productive behaviors that can impact job performance.
The Customer Service Representative - With Sales (Spanish) test includes an animated work simulation in which candidates meet customers, colleagues and supervisors in a job-related context. Post-test surveys indicate the majority of candidates react favorably to these simulations.
The specific attributes measured include:
Cognitive Ability
- Pensamiento analítico
- Atención al detalle
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Knowledge and Skills
- Conceptos Fundamentales de venta
- Análisis de situaciones de ventas
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Personality
- Adaptabilidad
- Busca la perfección
- Civismo Corporativo
- Competitivo
- Desarrolla relaciones
- Muestra una actitud positiva ante el trabajo
- Expresivo y extrovertido
- Innovador y creativo
- Rquiere de una estructura
- Disfruta resolviendo problemas
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Behavioral History
- Estudio de historial – desempeño
- Estudio de historial - permanencia en el puesto
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Following completion, the test produces a Candidate Selection Report that includes an overall score and detailed scores for each attribute. The overall score weighs each of the factors based on research and analysis from the U.S. Government's Occupational Information Network (O*Net). O*Net represents over a decade of dedicated research evaluating the relative importance of various factors that lead to success in almost 1,000 different job roles.
The Candidate Selection Report also provides expert interview questions that help you probe critical or low-scoring areas, along with a guide for noting your evaluation of the candidate's responses. Consistent use of an interview guide is an important part of gaining better candidate insights and making better hiring decisions.
More information about this Job
Annual US Wages (2016) |
Bottom 10%: | | $18,330 or less |
Bottom 25%: | | $20,370 or less |
Median: | | $24,300 (Average) |
Top 25%: | | $30,480 or more |
Top 10%: | | $39,310 or more |
Hourly US Wages (2016) |
Bottom 10%: | | $8.81 or less |
Bottom 25%: | | $9.80 or less |
Median: | | $11.69 (Average) |
Top 25%: | | $14.66 or more |
Top 10%: | | $18.90 or more |
Top Knowledge Requirements
- Sales and Marketing
- English Language
- Customer and Personal Service
- Telecommunications
- Communications and Media
- Computers and Electronics
- Education and Training
- Clerical
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Top Skills
- Speaking
- Persuasion
- Active Listening
- Service Orientation
- Social Perceptiveness
- Reading Comprehension
- Critical Thinking
- Negotiation
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Top Abilities
- Oral Expression
- Oral Comprehension
- Speech Clarity
- Speech Recognition
- Selective Attention
- Written Comprehension
- Written Expression
- Near Vision
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Education Requirements |
No High School Diploma: | | 30% |
High School Diploma: | | 59% |
Some College: | | 11% |
This graphic shows the percentage of people in this role who have their highest education in each category. |
Related Work Experience Requirements |
None: | | 66% |
Less than 1 Month: | | 4% |
1 - 3 Months: | | 8% |
6 Months - 1 Year: | | 3% |
1 - 2 Years: | | 18% |
This graphic shows the percentage of people in this role whose related work experience before they entered this position falls into each category. |
Alternate Titles for this Role: Appointment Setter, Busines Development Representative, Call Center Agent, Call Center Operator, Call Center Representative, Customer Service Representative (CSR), Donation Worker, Inbound Telemarketer, Inside Sales Representative, Outbound Telemarketer, Sales Specialist, Scheduling Agent, Solicitor, Telemarketer, Telemarketing Representative, Telemarketing Sales Representative, Telephone Sales Representative (TSR), Telephone Service Representative (TSR), Telephone Solicitor, Telesales Representative, Telesales Specialist
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