Online Customer Service Representative Resume
New Jersey, NJ
e-Professional Profile
Career Objective
I aspire to work for a company, organization, or corporation in a management position where growth is encouraged and promotion is attainable.
Personal Profile
Customer service representative with over seven years in management and a plethora of sales/customer relations experience.Flexible and versatile - able to maintain a sense of humor under pressure.Poised and competent with demonstrated ability to easily transcend cultural differences. Thrive in deadline-driven environments. Excellent team-building skills with an innate ability to motivate a team.Known to increase profitability and productivity through initiating new ideas and building team spirit.
Skills/Strengths Summary
- Performance and Productivity Improvement
- Internet/Microsoft Office Efficiency
- Team Building
- Problem Solving and Decision making
- Oral and written communications
- Leading and Coaching
- Sales/Customer Service
Professional Experience
Online Customer Service Representative for Confidential, June 2011-December 2012
- Engaged every customer via phone with online banking information, and suggestions for new financial products or services
- Requiredto maintain a keen understanding of banking policies, products, and services
- Supported banking initiaitives to improve customer service
- Resolved complex issues, troubleshooted, and created efficient ways for customers to conduct banking business online
- Was known to exceed quota monthly by 10% above my referral rate
Youth Minister in Training, Confidential, Dec. 2010-Present (Volunteer)
- Plan, direct, conduct, and evaluate a comprehensive youth ministry taking into consideration the spiritual, physical, recreational, social and psychological development of youth.
- Direct the teaching programs of the youth division (Sunday School, Mission Organizations, Discipleship Training) in cooperation with the appropriate directors.
Store Manager for Confidential, October 2010-June 2011
- Maintained overall responsibility for the store
- Met and exceeded all monthly goals and quotas
- Improved store profitability by 33% within my first six months of employment by devising new and improved strategies to boost customer awareness of the company and customer retention beyond the initial visit
- Operated the store daily, trained new staff, scheduled lunches, vacation time, and shifts of all employees under my supervision
Collections Supervisor for Confidential, January 2007-May 2010
- Led, developed, and motivated an internal team of five-ten associates collecting debt on auto loans
- Prepared and reviewed monthly performance reviews for direct reports
- Developed and refined the skills of the team in critical areas such as call techniques, obtaining quality payment promises, skip-tracing, and maintaining sufficient volume of calls and accounts worked to achieve expected results.
Collections Manager for Confidential, May 2004-January 2007
- Coordinated and monitored the daily activity of my team of twenty, to include scheduling to accommodate call volume, coverage hours, and absences.
- Minimized customer complaints and de-escalated conflict between customers and representatives in a matrix organization
- Coached, lead, and provided feedback to increase productivity and profitability through scheduled performance reviews and ‘side-by-sides’
- Assisted in the hiring of and trainingof the very best new hires
Collections Representative for Confidential, Jan 2004-May 2004
- Negotiated payment arrangements with delinquent customers, improving company revenue by 30% most months.
- Accessed skip tracing methods to successfully locate AR collections customers and retrieve delinquent funds on
- Utilized a dialer system as well as queue management skills to work an assigned group of accounts
- Followed FDCPAstandards to minimize monetary risk to the company/credit card client
Education
Confidential
Bachelors, Anticipated Graduation Date: June 2015
Confidential
High School Diploma, June 1998