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by luis P.

Tell me about yourself

Sure! I am systems technician from SENA.

I initially worked full-time as a bilingual customer service agent at Teleperformance for one year. After that, I continued working parti-time while studying for six months. Then, I decided to fully focus on my studies Because I was studying in the afternoon and Teleperformance changed the work schedule to the afternoon, so I reached the sixth trimester of my technologist program in software analysis and develepment, which is currently on hold because I need to start working to gain more experience, improving my english and skills and also because I live on my own., but I plan to complete it in the long term.

In my personal life, I am a relaxed person, that’s why I enjoy meditating, going to the gym, inline skating, and hiking on Sundays.

Sometimes, I like to read. I recently bought a Kindle to build my reading habit, so I’m currently reading Your Soul's Plan, which is about discovering the real meaning of life. I also watch TV shows on Netflix, my favorite is Black Mirror because each episode explores a dystopian future in science fiction.

And I like languages; my favorite is German. So when I want to learn English I use a free Chrome extension called Frogly That allows you to view dual subtitles in two languagues at the same time and with the Kindle, there's a dictionary and a translator include it where I can translate anything I want to understand just by highlighting a word or an entire sentence, so tha’s a little bit about me.

Tell us about a difficult situation or issue you faced and how you solved it.

It comes to mind one difficult and challenging situation I had when I started working at Teleperformance as a customer service agent in September. It was my first bilingual job, and I had never studied English in an academy. All the English I knew, I had learned in school. First, I had to face the challenge of handling calls, plus, I had a 3-month probation period. In December, I had to deal with the holiday season, which is when problems with carriers and furious customers are more common. We were also evaluated with the CSAT(Customer Satisfaction Score), and if we didn't have good metrics, we could be transferred to another campaign or even fired, Fortunately, I passed.. One time, I had a phone call with a customer who had returned an expensive product — I don't remember which one — and the return policy was one month from the purchase date."

"She had reported the issue on time via email, but every time she called, no one helped her.". Since we were also evaluated on the AHT (Average Handling Time), I didn’t care even if I lost the $50 bonus we were given each month. I decided to stay over an hour with the customer, trying to help her. I even called a supervisor, and she told me she had listened to part of the call and that it was great I told the customer I would help her, and not to worry because she would take care of the situation. So, I left with the conviction of having helped the customer, and she gave me a positive rating."

On other occasions, there were very grateful customers who told me very nice things, which made me think that I was doing a good job. I even saved the screenshots Because sometimes I thought I wasn’t good enough.

So, even if it was just because they received a product on time or a dress for a wedding, for them, it was something very important.

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luis P.

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