Tag: hiring

For many, the holidays are a time to reflect, celebrate accomplishments and consider the year ahead. If that’s true for you, too, then you’ll...

Contact center leaders often find themselves faced with the challenge of having to quickly staff up to accommodate business growth and expansion. Identifying a...

Do you have trouble hiring quality agents? Retaining the superstars? You’re not alone. Surveys suggest agent attrition is a top concern year after year....

Early in my management career, I followed the Golden Rule: Treat others as I would want to be treated. I believed that if I...

As an initial point of contact with your brand, customer service reps must be able to provide an excellent customer experience and resolve problems...

It’s currently a job-seeker’s market with contact centers in tight labor markets facing stiff competition for top talent. Add to that the industry’s high...

Hiring and onboarding new employees are processes that no contact center manager takes lightly, especially since high agent turnover remains a top challenge. Compounding...

June was a busy month for industry events, including the 2018 SWPP Annual Conference. WFM expert Tiffany LaReau of Human Numbers was onsite in...

What leader wouldn’t love to fill his or her contact center with highly skilled customer service professionals who will stay for a while and...

On a single night in 2017, 553,742 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development....

Our Quick Tips posts are just that—brief posts providing advice or actionable items from industry experts. These are tried-and-true practices that have proven successful...

Many centers struggle to find the right frontline staff, and then suffer further when hirees don’t show up for training, quit during training, or...