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Career Guidance Skills assisting and caring S3.4 - providing information and support to the public and clients S3.4.1 - providing information to the public and clients Answer incoming calls
Description
Respond to customers' inquiries and provide customers with appropriate information.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 2 occupations
- Optional in 4 occupations
- Total: 6 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 4 (Clerical support workers)
Essential for
- Telephone switchboard operatorTelephone switchboard operators establish telephone connections by using switchboards and consoles. They also answer customer inquiries and service problem reports. Duties The duti…
- Customer contact centre information clerkCustomer contact centre information clerks provide information to customers via the telephone and other media such as email. They answer inquiries about a company's or oganisation'…
Optional for
- Call centre agentCall centre agents handle incoming or outgoing customer calls for a business. They call existing and prospective customers to promote goods and services. They also obtain sales and…
- InterpreterInterpreters understand and convert spoken communication from one language to another. They retain considerable amounts of information, often with note-taking, and communicate it i…
- Editorial assistantEditorial assistants support the editorial staff at all stages of the publication process of newspapers, websites, online newsletters, books, and journals. They collect, verify, pr…
- Live chat operatorLive chat operators respond to answers and requests posed by customers of all nature through online platforms in websites and online assistance services in real time. They are avai…
Related skills
- Communicate by telephone
- Handle helpdesk problems
- Guarantee customer satisfaction
- Characteristics of products
- Characteristics of services
- Provide customer follow-up services
- Perform escalation procedure
- Use communication devices
- Create solutions to problems
- Use customer relationship management software
- Process data
- Perform multiple tasks at the same time
Last updated on February 18, 2026
