While other Ontario business schools are offering similar programs, Rondeau says Northern College's call centre service representative program is unique because the curriculum has been formatted to reflect the needs identified by the call centre industry.
We use multimedia (applications) and the students are able to simulate work in a call centre so that it's not just lecture or theorybased.
Suppliers selling products and services to the call centre industry.
Consultants advising clients on call centre strategy.
Peter Chidiac, Australia and New Zealand Country Manager for SpeechWorks International said the speech-enabled `virtual call centre attendant' understands 4,600 regional destinations in the computer's vocabulary.
Instead of building a bigger call centre and handling more and more traffic at a central location, the virtual call centre now distributes the calls to experts at local visitor centres without leaving callers waiting in a telephone queue or encountering several IVR prompts.
Together with Infonet's already acclaimed call centre service we've been able to provide a solution which is best-of-breed.
Added Arnold Bos, product manager Infonet Call Centre Service: "We've noted a clear paradigm shift recently in respect to pan-European call centre services.
Our assets lie in talented and motivated personnel, not in the hardware or software of the call centre itself.
Using VoIP, despite the call centre having three different locations, it is technologically centralised and connected via an ATM network.
Losco said there was strong growth in the
call centre industry and Australia was well placed to capture new business in the Asia Pacific region.
