Client Service Representative / Associate

Career Area: Customer and Client Support

Occupation Group: Customer Service Representatives

Salary

Percentile wages tell how much a certain percentage of an overall population in a geographic area or within a given industry or field makes. The percentile wage estimate is the value of a wage below which a certain percent of workers fall.

An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Client Service Representative / Associate earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $42,923

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $45,328

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Receives calls from clients and customers, provides information about products, services and policies, and assists clients with transactions. Handles client inquiries and helps to resolve complaints. May help callers to complete on-line transactions. May help financial services clients to manage accounts. In banking, may handle branch service transactions.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Client Service Representative / Associate is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft.
• Detail-Oriented: A detail oriented person is someone who pays attention to the details and can make a conscious effort to understand causes instead of just the effects, and that does this in a second nature type of way.
• Organizational Skills: Experience with a systematic process of structuring, integrating, co-ordinating task goals, and activities to resources in order to attain objectives.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Customer Service: Working experience with the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase.
• Customer Contact: Experience working with business processes and technologies that are designed to engage customers and facilitate communication by a variety of channels.
• Scheduling: Working experience making schedules, which are basic time-management tools, consisting of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place withing an organization.
• Appointment Setting: Working experience of Appointment Setting, which involves contacting individuals to generate appointments.
• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Client Service Representative / Associate that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Payment Processing: A payment processor is a company (often a third party) appointed by a merchant to handle transactions from various channels such as credit cards and debit cards for merchant acquiring banks.
• Customer Retention: Customer retention refers to the ability of a company or product to retain its customers over some specified period.
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA): The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 was enacted by the United States Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Client Service Representative
• Client Service Associate
• Client Service Specialist
• Client Service Manager
• Client Service Coordinator

Similar Occupations

If you are interested in exploring similar occupations, you may want to research the following job titles:

• Customer Service Representative (General)
• Customer Service Manager