Sample Job Description for Collections Agent


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Job Title: Collections Agent

Location of the Job: Woodland Hills, CA 91367

Years of Experience: 1+ to 3 Years

Job Type: Full Time Employee

Education Level: Bachelor’s degree

Job Summary:

This position is full time with benefits. There will be a paid training period for the first 4 weeks.

Pay is $11.50/hr plus commission.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Bilingual Spanish is a plus but not mandatory. Client will train on proprietary system.
  • Client DOES NOT want to see aggressive collectors who lack excellent communications skills.
  • Company pride themselves on their reputation for being known as an upscale collections agency.
  • Assertiveness, professionalism, and proven track record will be heavily assessed during the interview.
  • Client is looking for candidates that come from a first party or third party collections agency.
  • Concentration will be collecting on retail charge of debt.
  • Candidates will be fielding an average of 200 outbound calls on a daily basis.

 Position Requirements:

  • Must be friendly and a people person
  • Collections experience is a plus
  • Must have held down a job for more than a year (otherwise don’t apply)
  • Must be able to pass a drug test and have a clean criminal background
  • Must be clean cut, sharp and computer literate
  • Must have at least 1 year of customer service experience