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14 Call Center Interview Questions & Answers

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The call center industry is one of the fastest growing in the country these days. As recently as ten years ago, there were only a few call center agents and the word call center was hardly ever used in the country. Today, almost every family has at least one member working in the call center industry. The reason for this boom is partly economics. In the Philippines, low paying jobs are very notorious and while call centers set up shop here because of the low labor costs, Filipinos decide to work for the call center industry because it pays higher than average wages. Consider this: if you are an average worker with an entry level position, you probably are getting paid seven to ten thousand a month; meanwhile, an average employee in the call center industry with an entry level position will get around fifteen thousand pesos a month, plus free dental and health benefits (HMO). Call centers also will pay your SSS (Social Security), PAGIBIG (home building fund), and PhilHealth (health ins...

Prepping Pays

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Since I don't have a job and I am glued to my phone almost all day, I am able to be on top of all kinds of news happening globally. Last year, when news came out about a cooking oil shortage in Indonesia and a looming  sugar shortage in the country, I decided to stock up on cooking oil and sugar. True enough, after a few months, the prices of cooking oil and sugar doubled. Today, we are hearing news about India, Vietnam, and Thailand, three of the biggest rice exporters in the world, restrict its rice exports. Is it time to stock up on rice? No less than the president himself has said that rice prices will go up even as the country prepares to import rice. http://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2023/7/30/marcos-rice-importation-el-nino-egay.html We should all position ourselves in such a way that whether we are right or wrong, we do not lose.  I am old enough to remember the rice crisis of 2009 when overnight, the price of rice shot up. I have a feeling we will be experiencing t...