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Long Island, New York: once again, the American opposition leader, Mitt Romney comes into headlines as news of him outsourcing some of his call centers to the Philippines are published on the internet. Romney however has denied the news.

Today, job hunting can be a fairly difficult task. In order to know why, one needs to know the situation out there and find out the statistical records of today's era. It is known to all that since the global economic crises struck the world in 2007, things have never been very good. Bureau of Labor Statistics has recently found out in a research that at present, around 14 million people in the world are jobless and this number is twice as much as it was back in the December of 2007 when the crises had begun. Even though the number of jobless people has fallen to 9%, it still remains high compared to historical records.

OCS is a specialized communications function that allows a service provider to charge a user for services in real-time. The OCS handles subscribers' account balance, charging transaction control and correlation.

If you're ready to take your telecom business into the future, an OCS is the core of any telecom billing operations. But when you look for an OCS, you will discover that there are many choices out there. So we have provided with you some important things to look for when you want to choose the right online charging system for you and for your company.

Call center business is a very complex field that requires good management for its success. Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of agents, training them, monitoring their stats and providing useful feedback are some of the most important tasks

If your MNVO wants to have any chance of success, you need to have an excellent OCS to charge your customers accurately and regularly. One of the biggest hurdles that MNVOs face is the fact that they are constantly having to prove their worth. People are still used to working with bigger telecom companies and might be suspicious of an MNVO. Those of us who operate in the space understand that MNVOs are the wave of the future, but some of your customers are still skeptical. That's why it's so important to make sure that your billing is on point. Otherwise, you'll look like an amateur and run the risk of losing customers!

KPi of a BPO

Businesses all around the globe face problems regarding technical issues. Hardware and software do encounter technical issues and these have to be addressed. Therefore, it is highly important that the business owners make use of technical support services so that all problems can be troubleshot well in time and through professional help. Some of the most common problems that can be encountered include:

While cloud computing is fast becoming a popular form of sharing information and being adopted largely by the business community, it is facing many challenges. It is typical for a new technology to face problems while growing as it cannot be perfect in its initial days but with cloud computing, immense popularity and considerable success have coupled up with criticism in a whole new way. Some of the challenged being faced by this business include; ensuring the security of data, managing the contracts as well as the cloud, handling the lock-in and making up for the tensions.

Being a client to a web designer is not so uncommon, especially if one is a business owner. For whatever purpose the website has to be designed for, the website designer hired must have some qualities that define a good designer. While any designer who has studied art and design from a good art university and is running a well advertised studio would be sure of having good know-how of making a website but these qualities reassure that the designer is not designerly just in deed but also in practicality.

Yes, it is really difficult to capture your readers' attraction and make them happy with your marketing emails, when there are lots of spam and junk emails. All you can do is, craft your email which attain your reader's attraction and stay in their inboxes. There are many things need to be considered while creating an email, like; subject, body layout, unsubscribe option, etc. It is assumed that most of the emails are sent with at least one fetal error. These blunders can devalue any of your valuable messages. However; if you keep certain things in your mind or make a checklist to remind you the thing must need to be considered before you hit "Send". Let's discuss and make some points to have for reference when creating an email, especially for marketing.

Organizations and businesses have experienced bad hiring many times and know what mistakes are likely to be made. When it comes to hiring personnel for a certain task, there needs to be an assessment strategy that needs to be followed or else, wrong decisions can be made. As a result, all the most capable candidates might get eliminated and some mediocre ones might end up getting selected. In order to avoid this from happening, employees need to maintain a criterion upon which they would make selections. A planned interview, aptitude test and evaluation of work style can help hire the right candidates.

These days, it is being noted that firms and businesses are looking for outsourcing their services more than ever before. While the trend of outsourcing has been around since quite some time now, the need to outsource administrative support services has never been so intense. Probably, the major reason behind all this is the increasing workloads, drying out economic conditions and increasing competition in the market. Whatever might be the reasons, business owners are largely in need of outsourcing but in order to get this done effectively and for the benefit; they need to know the right ways of doing it.

Recruitment consultancy is the way of leading job seekers into the right place where they can settle and make up their career. This companies that offer this service stay in touch with their client businesses and on demand, help them find an employee to fill up a vacancy. While the recruitment companies remain in contact with job seekers as well as employers, they work mostly on demand. Whenever they get an application from a job seeker, it is kept safe and when an employer calls notifying a vacancy, the appropriate applicant is contacted. Some companies work in limited areas but there are a few that are working to help employers and job seekers, globally.

When it comes to workspaces, it is a point of no surprise that at some time and somewhere, a conflict is going on. Be it a high rate of competition or professional jealousies, a conflict can occur in workspaces at any time and in any way. It is however, not necessary that the conflict is a physical one or is evident in a rash manner but can also be silent. Also, it can exist between anyone from two or more than two people to different departments. When it comes to the relationships between the bosses and the managers and their employees, a conflict is most likely to be there. However, it is not necessary that the employees always show it off whereas in the case of employee to employee conflict, signs of a conflict could be shown. In order to be able to tackle a conflict within a workspace, one has to know what a conflict exactly is.

Customer satisfaction and retention is what all executives aim for. A seasoned executive would surely know of the tactics that are needed to ensure this but the ones who are new into the corporate sector would surely need to figure this matter out. This has to be done pretty systematically because first of all, a business owner needs to figure out what factors are important when it comes to customer satisfaction and sustainability. Some of the most important factors that bring in customers and encourage them to stay include branding and pricing as well as processes, technology, policies and talents of the team at the contact center.

Today, a virtual assistant is the need of every business and enterprise. Therefore, virtual assistants are being largely demanded for and are becoming increasingly common place. Such assistants cost less and can multitask, which means that they are quite economical and can even be hired by smaller businesses that do not have very large budgets. A virtual assistant can perform many tasks such as screening emails, booking the travel tickets and seats, making calls on one's behalf, manage the calendar and timetable and alongside these, handle many other tasks too. This saves a lot of time and provides a great deal of help. These assistants can be set to work for 24/7 or lesser and for whatever the time they work, the business owners have the peace of mind to concentrate on the core issues. However, there have been a few controversies associated with virtual assistants, which are merely misconceptions. Some of these have been addressed here.