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Agent Skill Control Screen and messaging System
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Skills Based Routing or SBR provides routing of calls based on
the skills required by the call. A computer first answers the call and asks the caller to
supply information about the caller’s needs. This information is matched to each
agent’s abilities and availability and the call is routed. Rules allow skills to be
required, prioritized and weighted. Time based rules alter the calls requested skills to
allow less able agents to handle a call without imposing an excessive hold time on the
caller.
How it works
The routing engine works on the concept of skills categories and skills. An agent may
have zero or many skills within a category. Each skill an agent has receives a value
indicating the proficiency the agent has in that skill.
Key Features
SBR has a section allowing for "Call Routing Rules". These rules control:
- How to break routing ties between agents
- How long to hold a caller on a must route queue before
rolling over to a general call center queue.
- What priority "weight" to apply to a skill set.
This allows the system to be configured such that while language is a must have skill,
operating system is two times as important. A rule set up like this would cause a caller
to be routed to an agent with some language skills in their area but, primarily to the
person who was most skilled in their type of problem.
- If the total skill score for the best skilled agent is less
than (X) wait (Y) seconds, check again. Try (Z) times before routing to the top skill
rating.
- Route to the last person this caller spoke to if possible.
- And capabilities for:
- Agent Messaging
- Agent Multiple Queue Login
- Remote Call Center
- At Home Agents
Key Benefits
- Callers are happier because they do not waste their time in
a call transfer loop never really getting to someone who can answer their question.
- Call handling costs are lowered as call transfers are dramatically
reduced.
- Call Center managers are easily able update and administer
the complete system.
For more information:
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here to download a Skills
Based Routing information sheet in 'pdf' format.  
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