Customer Support Skills you Need for your CV and Career in It & Telecoms

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Customer Support Skills List in It & Telecoms

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Customer Support role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Customer Support job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 53% of Customer Support job descriptions contained customer service as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

customer service
53%
software
20%
customer support
20%
service desk
15%
saas
15%
technical support
15%
1st line
15%
helpdesk
15%
it support
10%
analyst
10%
graduate entry
10%
crm
10%
technology
10%
troubleshooting
10%
1st line service desk
10%
1st line support
10%
ms office
5%
social media
5%
acd
5%
communication skills
5%
telecommunications
5%
application support
5%
english
5%
bespoke
5%
accounting
5%
contact center
5%
windows
5%
support analyst
5%
desktop support
5%
written communication
5%
billing
5%
ivr
5%
2nd line
5%
billing systems
5%
mysql
5%
admin
5%
customer services
5%
networking
5%
apache
5%
remote
5%
institutions
5%
line support
5%
sip
5%
management software
5%
windows servers
5%
xslt
5%
b2b sales
5%
accountancy
5%
building relationships
5%
operating systems
5%
communication
5%
financial services
5%
commercial awareness
5%
technically minded
5%
help desk
5%
data analysis
5%
negotiation
5%
itil
5%
testing
5%
organisational skills
5%
2nd line support
5%

While these keywords are a good start, remember that every job is different. Instead of including all these keywords on your CV, identify the keywords most relevant to the job you're applying to and include those. For the best chance of success use our CV keyword scanner tool to help with this.

Including the right keywords in your CV will help you get past Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and win more job interviews from employers and recruiters.


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