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Bank in big drive to recruit more call centre agents

Lloyds TSB has begun a drive to hire 400 more agents for its call centres in Glasgow and the two in Wales, Bridgend and Newport.
Nine seconds, or it will be goodbye

Customers will hang up in less than 10 seconds unless a sales call interests them, says an analysis of 1m calls over the last three months.
Chilly bee, a depressed fish and a radioactive squirrel...bizarre calls to the RSPCA

Each year, the RSPCA's call centre answers more than a million calls.
New UK call centres for web and cosmetics companies

Two overseas companies are to open UK call centres.
Call centres dare to bare for charity

Two call centres have embraced that annual tradition of posing for a (nearly) naked calendar, both of them to aid cancer charities.
"It's the money that's important", say agents

Money takes top place in a survey of pay and benefits in Scottish call centres.
Teleperformance, the big outsourcer, has opened a second call centre in Northern Ireland... Mendip District Council says that its call centre agents now answer more than 95 per cent of calls...
HSBC's advertising agency came up with a novel idea to attract recruits to the bank's call centres... News briefs
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