Hiring for Customer Service

Identify Your Talent Pool

Many organisations with Customer Services operations face ongoing challenges with their recruitment and retention.

  • 55% of companies state that they’re facing issues with a poor quality applicants.
  • 50% of organisations surveyed say that they have experienced skills shortages.
  • High attrition with turnover rates in UK call centres ranging from 25-35%.

The first step for any organisation when hiring new talent is understanding how to identify and reach potential new hires. Amberjack’s attraction services can; 

  • Provide you in-depth people analytics.
  • Help you to understand your talent pool.
  • Information on potential competitors.
  • Create relevant digital and print media.
  • Book and manage events.
  • Plan and execute social media campaigns.

Challenges with Traditional Customer Service Assessments

  • Traditional, linear approach 
  • Lacks engagement and immersion
  • Poor insight into role and environment
  • Focus on technical expertise and experience 
  • No opportunity to demonstrate potential
  • Introduce bias into the process
  • Unable to identify right candidates leading to high attrition
  • Missing out on extended talent pool

Our Customer Service Model

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Our Customer Service Assessment

We’re proven experts in creating powerful, tailored and flexible solutions.

Our customer service product is a blended online assessment.  Built to include automated sifting and an intergrated video interview it provides an engaging candidate experience and a consitent approach to drive optimum results.

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Managing Your Customer Service Candidates

Candidate Management is one of the core areas of our outsourcing services. It refers to the process of building and maintaining relationships with candidates in a recruitment process and ensuring that the experience is as frictionless as possible.

Our candidate management services include; personalised communications, coaching calls, technical support and detailed feedback for every candidate to ensure they have a rewarding experience whether they are successful or not. In a competitive recruitment environment, such as Customer Service improving your candidate management processes can have a hugely positive impact on the overall success of your campaign.

In addition to our candidate management services, we can also provide you with flexible outsourcing support. Ranging from sifting initial applications through to reviewing interviews or facilitating assessment centres, we can work as an extension to your team offering support where you need it most.

Who we work with

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Virgin Atlantic

We partnered with Virgin Atlantic to support them in transforming their entire recruitment process. Using our customer service blended assessment, Virgin Atlantic were able to recruit +500 cabin crew with 12 weeks whilst also achieving significant improvements their diversity hire and candidate experience, measured by NPS scores. Due to success of the new process the customers service assessment was also adapted and used across the wider business including Clubhouse, Retail, Contact Centre and Airport recruitment.

Octopus Energy

Octopus Energy are the UK fastest growing energy provider. Unable to keep up with the pace of hiring and costs of using recruitment agencies, Octopus approached Amberjack to help them launch a new set of assessments for their apprentices, heat pump engineers and electricians. We will also be helping them to re-design their assessment centres and providing outsourcing support for screening video interviews.
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First Abu Dhabi Bank

First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) came to Amberjack with a clear set of objectives. They wanted to create and innovative and immersive experience for candidates applying to their volume hire roles including Contact Centre and Bank Branch roles. Using our model to identify and assess Customer Service excellence, we have designed and launched a exciting new assessment solution for them which went live in March 2024.
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