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Common skills that can help you remember what you used on the job.

  • Operating communications equipment
  • Answering telephones
  • Assisting disabled individuals
  • Searching files
  • Sorting mail
  • Proofreading files
  • Entering information
  • Maintaining call records
  • Discussing account status
  • Assisting individuals with paperwork
  • Promoting programs

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Telephone Operator

Summary

Telephone Operator with experience in Operating communications equipment and Answering telephones.

Experience

Telephone Operator

Where you worked

Month Year to Month Year
  • Watched lights on switchboards
  • Dialed buttons to connect calls
  • Listened to customer requests
  • Updated directory information
  • Helped customers with details
  • Operated paging systems for calls

Skills

Operating communications equipment, Answering telephones, Assisting disabled individuals, Searching files, Sorting mail, Proofreading files, Entering information, Maintaining call records, Discussing account status, Assisting individuals with paperwork, Promoting programs

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  • Monitored signal lights on switchboards to manage call connections
  • Operated telephone switchboards to connect calls and assist customers with their requests

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Add how often you monitored the signal lights.

The line

Monitored signal lights on switchboards every few minutes during shifts to manage call connections

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Every few minutes during shiftsConstantly throughout the dayRegularly while handling calls

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Show what improved for customers because you assisted them.

The line

Operated telephone switchboards to connect calls and assist customers with their requests

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Calls connected faster and smootherCustomers received accurate information quicklyAssistance led to fewer call drops

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What this work involves

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This work commonly includes watched lights on switchboards, dialed buttons to connect calls, and listened to customer requests.

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Other names for this job

411 directory assistance operator, central office operator, change number operator, charge operator, communications operator, directory assistance operator, directory operator, emergency operator, information operator, inward toll operator, ld operator, live source operator.

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  • Telephone Operator

    Already yours: Operating communications equipment, Answering telephones, Assisting disabled individuals

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    What you have not done yet. Sorting mail, Proofreading files, Entering information

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Telephone Operator

  • Operating communications equipment
  • Answering telephones
  • Assisting disabled individuals
  • Searching files

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