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Customer Service Representative / Inside Sales

FASTSIGNS of West Metro, MN · Bethesda, MD · 4 wk ago
OTHR$18–$22/hrFull-time
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for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We need to parse the posting. Content: - Title: FASTSIGNS #132201 is hiring for a Customer Service Representative to join our team! - Benefits/Perks: Competitive Pay, Paid Vacation and Holidays, Performance Bonus, Ongoing Training Opportunities - A Successful FASTSIGNS Customer Service Representative Will Be the initial contact with current as well as prospective customers in our FASTSIGNS Center Learn to prepare estimates, implement work orders and ensure timely delivery of finished orders Enjoy being involved in daily team meetings, execute business and marketing plans and be intimately involved in the success of the FASTSIGNS Center Work with customers in numerous ways such as email, telephone, in-person and at their place of business Build long-lasting relationships by turning prospects into long term clients. - Ideal Qualifications For FASTSIGNS Customer Service Representative 2-3 years of retail or counter sales experience preferred High school diploma or equivalent Outgoing, responsive, eager to learn and has the ability to build relationships Great listening and organization skills Ability to sit for long periods (4 hours or more) Ability to view a computer screen for long periods (4 hours or more) Ability to work under pressure to output high volume, high-quality work - Then a paragraph: Do you enjoy working with people? ... If so, we are looking for employees just like you in the ever-changing Sign Industry. Apply today! - Compensation: $18.00 - $22.00 per hour - Then more prose: At FASTSIGNS, every day is unique ... etc. This includes network info, franchisee details, etc. We need to remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The last paragraph about franchisee etc might be considered boilerplate? It's about application process. The instruction says remove application instructions. So we should drop that. Also "Apply today!" is an application instruction; we should drop that line. Also "Do you enjoy working with people? ..." is more of a motivational question; maybe keep as prose? It's not a boilerplate; it's part of the posting encouraging applicants. Might keep as prose. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. We need to decide sections. Potential sections: - About the role: Could be the description of what the role entails (initial contact, prepare estimates, implement work orders, ensure timely delivery, daily team meetings, execute business and marketing plans, work with customers via various channels, build relationships). That seems like responsibilities. - Responsibilities: Could list those duties. - Requirements: Could list qualifications (experience, education, etc.) - Qualifications: Might be similar to requirements; but we need to avoid duplication. The posting has "Ideal Qualifications". That could be Qualifications section. - Skills: Could list listening, organization, ability to sit, view screen, work under pressure. - Benefits: Competitive Pay, Paid Vacation and Holidays, Performance Bonus, Ongoing Training Opportunities. - Pay: Compensation: $18.00 - $22.00 per hour. - Schedule: Not mentioned explicitly. No schedule info. So we should not create Schedule section. We need to avoid empty sections. Thus we will have sections: About the role (maybe we can combine with Responsibilities? But we need to follow instruction: use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It says prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine some. We need to decide what to put under each heading. We could have:

About the role

with a paragraph summarizing the role (initial contact, etc.)

Responsibilities

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    Requirements

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    • list of experience/education.

      Skills

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        Benefits

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          Pay

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          stating compensation. We should not repeat job title as heading. We need to preserve all substantive information: The description about being initial contact, learning to prepare estimates, implement work orders, ensure timely delivery, enjoy daily team meetings, execute business and marketing plans, be involved in success, work with customers via email, telephone, in-person, at place of business, build long-lasting relationships turning prospects into long term clients. We need to include that somewhere. We could put that as About the role paragraph. Responsibilities could be a more detailed bullet list: maybe same as above but we risk duplication. However we need to preserve all info; duplication is okay if it's not invented. But we should avoid redundant duplication? The instruction says remove duplicated lines. So we should not repeat same sentence twice. So we need to split the info between sections without duplication. Thus we need to decide which info goes where. Let's extract distinct pieces: From "A Successful FASTSIGNS Customer Service Representative Will Be the initial contact with current as well as prospective customers in our FASTSIGNS Center" - Initial contact with current and prospective customers. "Learn to prepare estimates, implement work orders and ensure timely delivery of finished orders" - Prepare estimates, implement work orders, ensure timely delivery. "Enjoy being involved in daily team meetings, execute business and marketing plans and be intimately involved in the success of the FASTSIGNS Center" - Involved in daily team meetings, execute business and marketing plans, involved in success. "Work with customers in numerous ways such as email, telephone, in-person and at their place of business" - Work with customers via email, telephone, in-person, at place of business. "Build long-lasting relationships by turning prospects into long term clients." - Build long-lasting relationships, turn prospects into long-term clients. Now "Ideal Qualifications For FASTSIGNS Customer Service Representative" list: - 2-3 years of retail or counter sales experience preferred - High school diploma or equivalent - Outgoing, responsive, eager to learn and has the ability to build relationships - Great listening and organization skills - Ability to sit for long periods (4 hours or more) - Ability to view a computer screen for long periods (4 hours or more) - Ability to work under pressure to output high volume, high-quality work Now Benefits/Perks: - Competitive Pay - Paid Vacation and Holidays - Performance Bonus - Ongoing Training Opportunities Compensation: $18.00 - $22.00 per hour Now the motivational paragraph: "Do you enjoy working with people? Do you enjoy helping people solve problems by offering advice and consultation? Are you looking for a job that offers constant learning, skills growth and a career path? If so, we are looking for employees just like you in the ever-changing Sign Industry." This is substantive; we can keep as a paragraph maybe under About the role or as a separate section like "Who you are". But we don't have a heading for that; we could incorporate into About the role. We also have some generic sentences: "At FASTSIGNS, every day is unique and presents exciting opportunities, including new ways to use your talent and grow your skills. We have a large network of independently owned locations - both locally and internationally - who offer competitive pay and ongoing training opportunities. Are you ready to plan for your future? Discover your next career. Make your statement. Learn more by exploring the positions offered by FASTSIGNS centers." This is somewhat generic and maybe boilerplate? It's about the company; could be considered substantive but maybe not needed. However instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. This is not exactly those; it's more promotional. Might keep but could be considered fluff. However we need to preserve ALL substantive information; we should not invent or summarize away detail. So we should keep it unless it's considered boilerplate. It's not explicitly listed as boilerplate to remove. It's about the company and opportunities. I'd keep it as a paragraph maybe under About the role or as a separate section like "About the company". But we only have allowed headings list; we could add a section like "About the company" but not in list. The instruction says use

          for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It gives examples but not exclusive? It says "use

          for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." Likely they expect only those headings. So we should not add other headings. So we need to fit all content under those headings. Thus we can put the company description under About the role or maybe under Benefits? Not appropriate. Could put under About the role as a paragraph. Now we need to avoid duplication: The company description mentions competitive pay and ongoing training opportunities, which are also in Benefits. That's duplication. We should avoid duplicating same lines. So we need to decide where to place each piece without repeating. We have Benefits list: Competitive Pay, Paid Vacation and Holidays, Performance Bonus, Ongoing Training Opportunities. If we mention competitive pay and ongoing training in About the role, that duplicates. So we should not repeat those. So About the role should avoid mentioning those. Thus About the role paragraph should include: initial contact, prepare estimates, implement work orders, ensure timely delivery, daily team meetings, execute business and marketing plans, involved in success, work with customers via email/telephone/in-person/at place of business, build long-lasting relationships turning prospects into long-term clients. Plus maybe the motivational paragraph about enjoying working with people, helping solve problems, constant learning, skills growth, career path. That seems okay. Now Responsibilities: Could be a bullet list of duties. But we already listed many duties in About the role. To avoid duplication, we could make About the role a brief overview, and Responsibilities a detailed list. However we must not duplicate same sentences. So we can split: About the role gives a narrative overview; Responsibilities gives bullet list of specific duties (maybe same content but rephrased). But that risks duplication of meaning. The instruction says remove duplicated lines, not necessarily duplicate meaning. Safer to avoid repeating same sentences. We could combine About the role and Responsibilities into one section? But we need to follow heading usage; we could have only About the role and Responsibilities if we split content without repeating exact sentences. Let's try: About the role: a paragraph describing the role in general terms (maybe summarizing). Responsibilities: a bullet list of specific duties. We need to ensure we don't repeat same sentences. We can paraphrase. Let's draft About the role paragraph: "The Customer Service Representative serves as the first point of contact for both existing and prospective customers, handling estimates, work orders, and ensuring timely delivery. The role involves participating in daily team meetings, executing business and marketing plans, and engaging with customers via email, phone, in-person visits, and at their places of business to build lasting relationships and convert prospects into long‑term clients." That covers many points but not all: we omitted "learn to prepare estimates" (we have handling estimates), "implement work orders", "ensure timely delivery", "enjoy being involved in daily team meetings", "execute business and marketing plans", "be intimately involved in the success", "work with customers in numerous ways such as email, telephone, in-person and at their place of business", "build long-lasting relationships by turning prospects into long term clients." Good. Now Responsibilities bullet list could include

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