Call Center Questions

Call center is a subset of BPO. 

This question focuses to check your ability to handle situations. Do not answer this question with anything that states retaliation. Talk about handling the situation with patience and relaxed mind set. You can answer it as “ If the customer on the other side of the phone line is angry i will first try calming him and ask him his/her problem. After that I will try sufficing the best solution keeping in mind his problem. In this sector customer satisfaction is very important and thus it will be my primary goal.

A center equipped to handle a large volume of telephone calls. These calls could be the calls coming in from customers for service or support or these could be the calls that call center executives make to the customers for marketing

There are mainly two types of call centers :

a) Inbound call centers – Inbound call centers are those which receive support or service calls from customers usually on a toll free number. For e.g. when you call up a bank to check the status of your request for credit card, it is an inbound call.

b) Outbound call centers – Outbound call centers are those in which the call center executives make calls to the customers. These calls are usually made to generate the leads or sales. For e.g. when you receive a call from a bank offering you a personal loan, it is an outbound call. 

There are mainly four reasons for a company to outsource its call center:

a) Cost saving 

b) Focus on core activities 

c) Access to special enterprise which has expertise in the domain. 

d) Other resource related reasons like relieving resource constraints, reducing staff.