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Call Centre Association
E-newsletter - Apr, 2003
 
Index
Upcoming Event
  1. Call Centre Annual Award 2003
  2. China Event in June 03
Events Review
  Site Visits to the Award-winning Call Centres
Special Event
  Call Centre Industry Research
Job Post
   
   
1. Call Centre Annual Award 2003
Continuing on last year's huge success, the Hong Kong Call Centre Association is currently preparing the 4th Annual Call Centre Awards, the only and most prestigious event on the annual industry calendar.
Business diversity and technological advancement are helping to drive the rapid growth of the call centre industry both in Hong Kong and in neighbouring areas. Based on the encouraging feedback from the industry last year, the Call Centre awards will aim not only to acknowledge and give recognition to individuals and business providing outstanding levels of customer service, but also to accommodate a more diverse spectrum of contact centre solution including technology and even offshore calls centres servicing the Hong Kong market..
 
"Call Centre Annual Award 2003 -
the only and the most prestigious event on
our industry calendar"
 
Your participation in the awards reflects your commitment to achieving Customer Services Excellence and identifies you as one who has set themselves to perform at a high level.
You may wish to visit our website at www.hkcca.com or send e-mail to Amy Wong or telephone: +852 2788 6011 if you have any queries. The details schedule including award categories will be announced shortly, so keep your eyes posted.
 
 
     
2. China Event in June 2003
 
   
 
Contact Centres Integration in China
Late June 2003 (Tentative)
 
Sponsor:    Supporter:
 
Introduction
Contact centers are on the move. With the ever-increasing contacts between Hong Kong and the Mainland, integration of businesses has become more mature. This is especially true in the contact centre industry.
How can integration of contact centre across the border help your business? How can you balance the investment and return? How should your management strategy go and how can you leverage it to maximize your customer satisfaction and profit growth?
Now you can find the answers from the market players on how they build and strengthen their leading roles in the field of contact centre and customer service. Also you will learn about the techniques for achieving equal benefit between customer and business interests. You will also be showcased on how successful organizations improve their performance with tailored customer offerings.
 
Program
The event will include a half day seminar with the speakers from PacificNet, China Unicom and PCCW and 1 day visit to Guangzhou with the site visit to PCCW Limited - Guangzhou Call Centre (電訊盈科廣州電話中心) & China Elite Information Co., Ltd, Guangzhou
(廣州盛華信息有限公司).
The detailed program run-down will be announced soon.
 
 
 
Events Review
   
Site Visits to the Award-winning Call Centres
- 1823 Citizen's Easy Link (Efficiency Unit of SAR HK Government)
- INVESCO Asia Limited
 
The Call Centre Association has invited the 3rd Annual Call Centre Award winners to arrange on-site visits at their call centres for our members to learn more about world-class operations and management practices, and to discuss the success factors and positive experiences they have encountered. Two site visits are arranged as follows:
 
14 Mar 2003 (Friday) PM 1823 Citizen's Easy Link
(Efficiency Unit of SAR HK Government)
   
 
 
25 Mar 2003 (Tuesday) AM INVESCO Asia Limited
 
 
 
Special Event
Call Centre Industry Research  
supported by
   
Dear Participant  
   
Thank you for taking part in the Hong Kong Call Centre Association (CCA) Call Centre Industry Research 2003. The objective of this survey is to collect information about call centre operations in Hong Kong in order to share with practitioners data on current trends, as well as the future direction of the industry in Hong Kong.
 
The survey covers different aspects of the call centre including: size, staff, technology, key performance indicators (KPIs), training and development. The questionnaire will require approximately 15 minutes to complete by the appropriate personnel managing your operations who have sufficient knowledge and information regarding how your centre is run.
After collecting a reasonable number of responses and carrying out analyses on the data, the survey results will be announced in May 2003.
 
Please make sure that correct contact information such as your CCA 2003 membership number and electronic mail address are provided at the beginning of this survey so that we can forward you a copy of the final research report.
The Survey is divided into 2 parts: Contact Information and Centre Profile. Participants are required to supply Contact Information marked with *. In the Centre Profile section, there are no mandatory fields that you must fill in, however, we highly recommend that you complete as many as fields as possible in the survey. In the case where selecting multiple answers are required, hold down the CTRL key while clicking selections.
 
Survey data will only be analysed in aggregate and no individual company data will be released or used outside the scope of the survey. The analysis and the report compiling will be conducted by Hong Kong Productivity Council. Strict confidence will be maintained at all times.
 
To begin the survey, please visit http://www.hkcca.com/html/survey.htm
Please feel free to contact us for any queries regarding this survey.
Thank you again for taking the time to contribute to this important industry endeavour.
Sidney Yuen
Chairman
Hong Kong Call Centre Association
Tel: +852 2788 6011
Fax: +852 2788 6056
Email: ccainfo@hkcca.com
 
 
   
 
More News
 
PCCW Customer Management Services is a high-quality regional integrated communications operator, providing best-in-class contact-centre solutions that entail customized CTI and CRM solutions, system development, multi-media call-centre technology support to serve clients from a wide range of industries, including banking, finance, insurance, telecommunications and travel.

To cope with our business growth, we invite enthusiastic and achievement-oriented young talents to join our dynamic telemarketing team. Comprehensive training in sales will be provided.

Ref: E-mail :ycktrain@pccw.com    Fax : 2637-7227
 
Position : Part-time Telesales Executive (Wanchai/Tsuen Wan)

Your role is to promote various products or services and close sales order over the phone for a targeted customer base. You will be working in our call centres at Wanchai or Tsuen Wan.

Successful applicant:

  • Available to work during;
    1900 - 22:00 , Mon - Sat, Perform minimum of 12 working hours per week
  • Form 5 or above, 1-2 years experience in Sales
  • Sales-oriented with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Good command of Cantonese, English.
If you have the desire to create an exciting and rewarding career, then send us your resume immediately, quoting the reference number, your present and expected salary via email/fax as posted under each position to: People Management, 4/F Yuen Chau Kok Engineering Centre, 16-18 Siu Lek Yuen Road, Shatin

PCCW is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. Information provided will be treated in strict confidence and only be used for recruitment related purposes. Personal data provided by job applicants will be used strictly in accordance with the employer's personal data policies, a copy of which will be provided immediately upon request.

www.pccw.com
 
   
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