Are they being served? Making the most of a customer services job

Felicity Evans • November 4, 2015
Tray of freshly baked chocolate pastries on parchment paper, held by a person in a red polka-dot apron

If you’re a person who loves people, then taking up a post in Customer Services could be the smartest move you make. Not only will you get to do a job that you love – you could end up shaping your company’s entire brand.

It goes without saying that recruitment agencies, Peterborough or not, are a good place to start – here at Recruit Mint, we will take you through essentials such as writing a CV and presenting your skills in the best possible way. But once you’ve secured your new role in a customer service job, you can begin to make a significant impact.

The image and values that a business presents are powered by three core offers: the ‘three Ps’ – the product, the price and the people. Very often, if a product or price is perhaps not as good as that being offered by a rival organisation down the road, but the people are second-to-none, customers will opt to stick with the staff they like and trust. It’s why utility companies and banks have been forced to start making an effort when recruiting for frontline customer services jobs, aware that poor telephone manners and lack of care can and does drive customers away.

Take up a customer services job, and the company you work for will be relying on you to make the difference between success and failure. You’ll help, daily, to shape and re-shape the perception clients have of what your organisation can give them, both in terms of goods and services, and in feeling happy, supported and well-served.

Recruit Mint is a leading Peterborough recruitment agency. We approach every candidate we deal with as an individual, and help develop skills and long-term career goals rather than pushing people into the first job that comes along. Our clients use us again and again, confident that – when it comes to jobs in Peterborough – we supply confident, happy staff who are eager to work and ready to excel.

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