Customer Service Specialist

 

 

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The Customer Service Specialist (CSS) Examination Study Guide (4th edition) is available through ETA. This study guide covers all the information necessary to pass the CSS exam, including practice questions!

 

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The Value Of Certification

 

Anyone can say “I work well with people” but only a Customer Service Specialist (CSS) has proven the fact through a specialized testing program.

 

Now, the power of customer service is at your fingertips. ETA offers a real examination developed by professionals for Customer Service Specialists in every trade. Becoming certified helps raise the standards for the entire industry.

 

Certified individuals instill confidence in their clients, their supervisors, and the world; thus commanding higher income and respect. Hundreds of educational institutions incorporate ETA’s exams in their courses. Thousands of companies hire certified workers first.

 

An individual who successfully passes ETA’s World Class CSS Certification exam is professionally recognized as having the ability to uphold the interpersonal and business standards necessary in today’s workplace. View the CSS Competencies.

 

 

What kind of test questions can you expect?

 

Safety - Personal, customer, product, and equipment safety; electrical and electronic hazards, basic fire safety.

 

Ethics - Defining ethics, recognizing right from wrong, fairness, the golden rule, categorical imperative, maintaining relationships, flexibility for changing world views.

 

Respect- Common consideration, overlooking personal differences, your effect on others, seeing the other side, financial effects.

 

Teamwork - Building effective teams, qualities of a good team, team formation, staffing, personality, motivation, maintaining motivation and morals.

 

Communication - Successful communication methods, verbal and non-verbal communication, body language, electronic communications.

 

Handling Emotions - Understanding emotions and their effects on the workplace: disassociation, controlling emotions, handling customer and co-worker emotion.

 

Telephone Techniques - Long distance and cellular calls, “on-hold”, taking notes and messages.

 

Customer Problem Solving- Assessing situations, dealing with simple and complex problems, finding and implementing solutions.

 

Interpersonal Relationships - Personal nature, differences, communication, and trust; controlling negativity.

 

Sales, Marketing, & Customer Service - Recognizing the purposes of (and difference between) marketing, sales, and service; how they relate, continuous improvement techniques.