BPO / call Center Training.

Call-Center Training:

The call center / BPO will train you once you get selected. However you can also opt for taining before you get selected into the BPO. First let us discuss about the training before joining a BPO. The next article deals with training once you are selected in BPO.

Call-Center Training Institutes:
Have you decided to join a call center, but you are thinking of joining a training institute first to hone your skills for a better pay package? With call centers mushrooming in all major cities in India, the call center training institutes in Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai, are following the pace. But you have to be ultra careful before selecting an institute. This article throws some light on what are the things that you can analyze before selecting a call center training institute for yourself.

Check the kind of soft-skills training provided by the institute:
Soft skills primarily include communication skills, accent-neutralization training, customer management, time management, team work, crisis and stress management, telephone etiquette, etc. Out of these, communication skills and accent training are the most important; you must find out how the institute trains on these soft skills. Do they have a structured course to help you learn these skills with ease?

Hard skills training required for easy entry into a call center:
To support your soft skills, you need to learn some other things like working on the computer and applications like MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint. You would need to learn how to use all the basic tools that are used in the call centers such as VoIP telephone equipment, desktop computer, customer care management applications, etc. If you want to get into a technical call center, then preliminary training on that product or service must be given. You must also learn the terminology used in a call center.

Find out if the instructors are experienced and qualified:
Insist on meeting a few trainers and instructors in the call center training institute to get an idea about their teaching style. Don’t hesitate to ask about the qualifications and experience of the trainers. You may also ask for one trial session, wherein you can attend an actual class at the institute.

Supporting infrastructure and equipment of the call center training institute
Visit the institute and see if it has the required space, seating capacity, computer systems, and other resources to accommodate each student comfortably. Also find out about the level of personal attention given to each student.

Formal certification for your successful course completion.
Find out if the institute provides a formal certification of training or not. This will help you while presenting your qualifications and documents in the interview.

100% placement - Is it the truth or just a gimmick?
Does the institute offer the right placement that it assures? With the never-ending demand of trained call center agents, these institutes have become like training-cum-recruitment providers for call centers. Ask the institute about all the call centers where they have placed their candidates in the past and check if they are reputed companies.

Conduct a background check to be absolutely sure.
Ask for references. If they are unable to give you any good references, just visit the training institute when a batch is about to get over and chat with the students who come out to find out about the institute and the trainers. Also, do a quick search on the web to get reviews about that institute if any. It is good to join a training institute before getting a call center job to learn all the tricks of the trade. It will make you a trained candidate and you would be able to negotiate a better salary as compared to an un-trained person. The salary for beginners in call centers range from Rs. 8,000 to Rs.12,000 per month. After getting appropriate training, you would be able to demand the upper level of the slab.