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​"Warum sollten wir Sie einstellen".  Dies hat sich als eine der häufigsten Interviewfragen erwiesen, die Bewerbern*innen gestellt wird. 
Obwohl es sich um eine so heikle Frage handelt ist es eigentlich eine gute Gelegenheit zu zeigen warum gerade du für die Position und das Unternehmen gut geeignet bist. Du kannst über dich selbst und deine Fähigkeiten sprechen und deine Gesprächspartner*innen beeindrucken.

Es gibt verschiedene Möglichkeiten mit dieser Frage umzugehen.

Eine Möglichkeit besteht darin dem/ der Personalverantwortlichen zu erklären, warum du für ihn/ sie arbeiten willst, was für dich dabei herausspringt aber auch welche Vorteile das Unternehmen von deiner Beteiligung haben könnte. Weise darauf hin, dass deine Einstellung eine Win-Win-Situation für beide Seiten wäre. Versuche dich selbst als einen großen Vorteil zu verkaufen und zeige dich enthusiastisch und proaktiv gegenüber der Stelle. Natürlich darfst du nicht den Fehler begehen und nur auf einen der beiden Punkte eingehen. Erwähne was für die Gegenseite dabei herausspringt und was dich dazu bringt einen guten Job für den/ die Arbeitgeber*in zu machen.

Eine andere gute Strategie ist es zu zeigen was du kannst, was andere nicht können. Natürlich wärst du ein guter Kandidat aber davon gibt es wahrscheinlich eine Menge mit genau deinen Fähigkeiten.
Du musst also beweisen, dass DU mehr wert bist als andere und dem Unternehmen etwas Einzigartiges bieten kannst. Zu diesem Zweck kann es für dich von großem Vorteil sein, wenn du dich in der Branche gut auskennst. Du musst natürlich einige Unternehmensrecherchen durchführen, um einen soliden Hintergrund zu erlangen, anstatt nur ein paar allgemeine Informationen zu liefern.
Wenn du dein Wissen in diesem Sinne zeigst, wirst du deine Begeisterung für die Position zeigen und dich selbst als Insider vorstellen, der wahrscheinlich leichter zu trainieren sein wird als andere.

Je nachdem, für welche Stelle du dich bewirbst kannst du uns zeigen, wie du mit deinen Fähigkeiten ein Problem im Unternehmen lösen können.
Tatsächlich kommt es oft vor, dass Arbeitgeber*innen eine*n Mitarbeiter*in suchen, der/die dem Unternehmen eine neue Sichtweise hinzufügt und ein Problem löst, mit dem sie sich schwer tun.
Konzentriere dich auf deine Zukunft und darauf zu erklären, wie du ein*e Problemlöser*in für das Unternehmen werden kannst. ​

Viele Leute haben darauf gewartet und es ist endlich soweit. Wenn du das liest, weißt du wahrscheinlich, worum es an diesem Tag geht. Der Black Friday ist da. An dieser Stelle hast du wahrscheinlich bereits etwa 10 E-Mails von den wichtigsten Unternehmen erhalten, nur um über die Deals informiert zu werden, die sie haben werden. Und natürlich hast du das Wort Black Friday diese Woche mindestens 50 Mal gesehen. Die amerikanische Tradition ist in den letzten Jahren stark gewachsen und sowohl Produkt- als auch Dienstleistungsunternehmen bereiten sich sorgfältig auf diesen Tag vor.

Traditionell bieten kleine, mittlere und vor allem große Unternehmen den Kunden sehr spezifische Angebote, um alle Weihnachtseinkäufe vorwegzunehmen. Viele Leute nutzen diesen Tag wirklich aus und kaufen jetzt alle Geschenke. Auf diese Weise kann man den Stress, den Ansturm in letzter Minute und vor allem die überfüllten Orte in der Weihnachtszeit vermeiden (wenn du den physischen Einkaufsstress vom Black Friday überleben kannst, aber #tgibf gibt es auch Online-Verkäufe!).

Auf der anderen Seite ist es auch eine gute Gelegenheit für die zweite Art von Kunden. Diejenigen, die bereits seit einiger Zeit darüber nachdachten, ein bestimmtes Produkt zu kaufen. Wenn sie Glück haben, können sie es an diesem Tag machen und einen guten Rabatt darauf bekommen.

Und dann gibt es noch eine dritte Art von Kunden an diesem Tag. Wahrscheinlich die Mehrheit. Diejenigen, die keinen Plan hatten, etwas zu kaufen, aber sie werden von Rabatten und den Marketingkampagnen angezogen. Während du darüber nachdenkst, in welche Kategorie du besser passen würdest, lass uns damit fortfahren, wo du die Black Friday Angebote in diesem Jahr finden kannst.

It is hard to handle a customer having rage and frustration and not even being open to getting the help you are willing to provide but just yelling at you without even know you and your relationship with the service or product and most importantly uninterested with how your day is going.
Sometimes you are just surprised how people can find that time to give a call for a very simple and easy matter that can be solved so quickly with only basic logic of 2 minutes. Or there might be times you just want to say that you feel the same with them about their problem. You can’t say anything but your scripted support lines when you know that people around you or your supervisor listen to every word you say because they are recorded for quality assurance purposes.
Have you ever felt connected to the voice you heard for a second (among all the others) before they got crazy and only wanted to talk your manager but you had to listen to their threats and to ease them? Or just wanted to hang up the phone to that chatty customer who only wastes your time for nothing and you get exactly nothing out of it.
Do you remember that time when you were so sure that the call went really well but the person gave you 7 stars out of 10 and you didn’t get the chance asking why, WHY?
Overly ambitious colleagues around you giving meaningless advice as if your supervisor is not enough or way too grumpy ones whose voice you can only hear happy when they give “support” ruining your mood, how about them?


These are only some of the moments people work in Call Centres can relate to.They are based on true stories. But at the same time only information you know about being a customer service representative if you are not one. You already know your previous experience or your friends’ in totally different industries were more or less the same, just because you only hear negative stereotypes about call centres and customer service agents, you are sure you will never be one of them. Well, that’s why we are here, to change your mind.
Face to face customer care, business to business relation, sales calls and meetings, handling students, reporting to managers, trying to fix a bug that appears each time you think you got rid of it this time… Every job has its downsides. Don’t you agree?
The question is, what do we learn from those experiences?Not every job is suitable for every person, that is for sure. But every experience in your career path is valuable. Some use certain jobs as a step, others stay there because they decide that they are comfortable in that position or they simply love what they are doing.
Now let’s think about call centres again. Seriously, how bad it can be? Do you think millions of people on the phone giving you support cry for hours every night in their beds? Over their personal problems? Yes! Or because of their abusive managers? Yes! Maybe it’s you yelling at them for a simple issue! There’s one thing you don’t know, there are people happy with their jobs and be sure that there are also people saying they would never do what you do for a living, and you probably wouldn’t do theirs.
What you hear somewhere out there about how boring working in a call centre comes from two main sources. People who are just too narrow-minded to learn about the pros of a job and only care about its salary and the reputation and people who experienced working in a call centre and figured it out it’s not for them but also provides you good insight about their experience. If you listen to the latter, and if you think it’s not going to work for you either, no judgements. But if you just think that working in a plaza on high hills or wearing a suit while writing very important reports to your managers overseas is not going to be boring, I have bad news for you!
If you want to learn what the benefits of working in a call centre are and what you can learn from being a customer service representative, read on!


You will learn providingthe service you want to receive!
Are you also one of us who still cannot manage to talk to a robot on the phone, trying to give the keywords clearly and just hoping to reach the human customer service representative craving for a meaningful communication? Then you know how important to sound human and providing some solutions for that person on the other side of the phone expecting a simple solution for a problem.
Come on! You are one of the only people who can solve these issues and that makes you valuable. And nothing can beat the satisfaction arises from a well-done customer service. A nice phone call and a solution can make a customer’s day while a poor service will turn them crazy. You know what I’m talking about. You had these feelings how many times already, right? Making others feel valuable can also teach you what kind of a service you also want from others.
You will be rewarded with feedback and get the chance to improve yourself!
Poor service is punished nowadays within seconds by the power of customer using social media channels and leaving reviews and feedback. But never forget, as Bill Gates famously says “your must unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning”.
You will have the chance to improve your communication and problem-solving skills by taking those constructive feedbacks into consideration. Forget about the angry customers who do not value your service but care about the ones that highlight the points you deeply know that you need to work on. And who knows, maybe you will have to learn from positive feedbacks all the time!


You will learn how to overcome drama queens!
Have you ever participated in the school drama club? Or regretted that you haven’t done it when you faced those situations requiring acting skills?
When you are customer care specialist helping various people solving the problems they face, you will have those moments feeling like a theatre actor/actress. You will be giving an amazing performance based on your scripted text and also going to have a lot of opportunities to improvise. Yes, customer service is a field you will have to follow a constructed script to ensure consistency between support provided by different agents but also a platform that requires a lot of instant decision-making and improvisation skills.
You may be asking yourself, why it is even important. But learning performing, being quality and service-oriented and providing the best customer experience will make you a different person. Don’t underestimate the value of having an experience in this sector on your CV, a lot of recruiters will know how difficult to handle unexpected questions and problems faced by call centre agents. It will pay off!


You will learn a lot!
Let me elaborate it. These skills you will gain in your customer service representative job can be a gold mine when you move on with another career later on. You will surely have the chance to utilise your call centre agent skills including listening, empathy, rhetoric, communication, interpersonal, or improvisation and problem-solving in your future career steps, for sure!
The positive attitude that we have talked earlier which ensures customer satisfaction; being able to give a clear message, speaking understandable, controlling a dialogue or attentiveness that is the basis for listening skills and decision-making power you will gain from this experience will boost your soft skills. These are transferable and interchangeable skills that will be glad to have in your future work and life experiences. Spoiler: we, as recruiters, care about them A LOT! If you are unexperienced and want to gain working experience, many call centres are great places for that.
You will learn, besides all these, to be able to act as a team member in a big company, respond to supervisors, support your colleagues and enjoy the team activities and incentives.
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You will actually enjoy it!
They said that it’s just a boring job that pays nothing, you just talk whole day until your energy goes below zero and you go to sleep to wake up the same deadly routine about customer service jobs, am I wrong? Well, not everyone thinks the same way, there are other stories as well. I haven’t even mentioned the opportunities abroad (kept it till the end for the ones who truly values being a customer service agent).
Did you even know that it is one of the most demanded jobs all around the world that opens the doors for people who wants to work abroad? Yes, you can find a lot of countries you can just decide to go today and you will be starting working next Monday in your own language! Hundreds of people are flowing around Europe thanks to global and international outsourcing companies recruiting multilingual customer service agents. And since the industry has a very bad reputation as you already know, they give extra support and care for their employees. Flight reimbursements, accommodation, bonuses, promotion opportunities, annual return tickets to your country, office amenities and more… All these great compensations and benefits that companies provide for their customer service specialists are beyond your imagination.
If you don’t believe me, why don’t you take a look at them?