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« on: October 14, 2006, 10:28:38 am » |
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Local call center adding 200 jobs
By ROBERT EVATT World Staff Writer
10/14/2006
The new positions at TCIM Services will pay up to $15 an hour TCIM Services Inc., a Wilmington, Del.-based call center business, announced Friday its Tulsa location will grow by at least 200 employees over the next year.
Positions available include sales supervisors, outbound sales, quality analysts and bilingual workers.
Hourly wages will range from $8.50 to $15, said Sondra Reeves, regional recruiting manager for TCIM.
The company currently has about 250 workers locally.
TCIM provides outsourcing of sales and customer-service functions for identity-monitoring and telecommunication firms.
The new jobs are a result of a Fortune 500 telecom company expanding its contract with TCIM and adding new programs, Reeves said. She declined to identify the company or the programs, citing confidentiality agreements.
Though TCIM has locations in Edmond and Norman; Paris and Longview, Texas; and Tucson, Ariz.; the Tulsa facility was a natural choice for the new work.
"Tulsa provides a very world-class operation here," she said. "We've got the facilities to do inbound and outbound production, plus Tulsa has a very diversified culture."
Approximately 100 associates will be hired immediately, with the rest to follow through 2007. Reeves said the company has maintained an office in Tulsa since 1992 at 4115 S. 100th East Ave.
"Since we already have a large facility, we won't have to physically expand to accommodate the growth," she said.
TCIM employs more than 2,500 employees companywide.
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« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2006, 03:06:52 pm » |
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yee haw...more call center jobs....
Tulsa, the little India in America.
hehehe, I can just picture some guys in India right now... "Dammit! Our jobs keep getting outsourced to Tulsa Oklahoma!" |
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DM
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« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2006, 07:29:16 am » |
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Originally posted by inteller
yee haw...more call center jobs....
Tulsa, the little India in America.
I love statement like this. It really proves that you cant please anyone. People complain because jobs go to India but yet when they come to town people still complain. |
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DM
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« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2006, 10:19:32 am » |
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Originally posted by inteller
yee haw...more call center jobs....
Tulsa, the little India in America.
I love statement like this. It really proves that you cant please anyone. People complain because jobs go to India but yet when they come to town people still complain.
tulsa will never achieve any greatness if all you have are mcdonalds and call center workers.
You dont see these call centers as additional assistance to train our young professionals? Paid training? MCDs are in every city. Yes even NYC, SF, Dallas, etc.. For the people who take these jobs, it is better then working at a MCD's. It gives them better skills, better pay (then fast food), and most fo the times it offers benefits. A cities "greatness" is not judged on how many call centers it has or does not have. |
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« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2006, 01:26:25 pm » |
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Originally posted by inteller
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Originally posted by DM
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Originally posted by inteller
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Originally posted by DM
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Originally posted by inteller
yee haw...more call center jobs....
Tulsa, the little India in America.
I love statement like this. It really proves that you cant please anyone. People complain because jobs go to India but yet when they come to town people still complain.
tulsa will never achieve any greatness if all you have are mcdonalds and call center workers.
You dont see these call centers as additional assistance to train our young professionals? Paid training? MCDs are in every city. Yes even NYC, SF, Dallas, etc..
For the people who take these jobs, it is better then working at a MCD's. It gives them better skills, better pay (then fast food), and most fo the times it offers benefits.
A cities "greatness" is not judged on how many call centers it has or does not have.
we must be thinking of two different sets of young professionals. the ones i'm thinking of have college degrees and wouldnt take a menial job like this. you must be thinking of college flunkies (oxymoron?) or kids fresh out of high school.
it doesn't take much skill to read off sales and tech support scripts.
Um somewhere someone needs to check some numbers, Tulsa is both a pretty young (citizen age) city and Tulsa ranks pretty high on percentage of people with a degree. Not that we can't do better, but don't portray the city as full of GED holding retirees, that's simply not the case. |
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DM
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« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2006, 02:41:44 pm » |
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Originally posted by DM
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Originally posted by inteller
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Originally posted by DM
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Originally posted by inteller
yee haw...more call center jobs....
Tulsa, the little India in America.
I love statement like this. It really proves that you cant please anyone. People complain because jobs go to India but yet when they come to town people still complain.
tulsa will never achieve any greatness if all you have are mcdonalds and call center workers.
You dont see these call centers as additional assistance to train our young professionals? Paid training? MCDs are in every city. Yes even NYC, SF, Dallas, etc..
For the people who take these jobs, it is better then working at a MCD's. It gives them better skills, better pay (then fast food), and most fo the times it offers benefits.
A cities "greatness" is not judged on how many call centers it has or does not have.
we must be thinking of two different sets of young professionals. the ones i'm thinking of have college degrees and wouldnt take a menial job like this. you must be thinking of college flunkies (oxymoron?) or kids fresh out of high school.
it doesn't take much skill to read off sales and tech support scripts.
Not everyone can afford college and does not want or qualify for student loans. So taking a job at a call center to gain good skills and money for part time school does not sound that bad to me. Of course its not just the young people who might be able to gain from these call centers. Older people who are just reentering the workforce due to divorce, spouses death, spouse who lost their job, etc.. No matter what job you apply with or without a degree, if you have the skills necessary for some minor technical assitance, you may just have one up on the other person that doesnt. Would you rather these jobs go to India? |
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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2006, 07:57:08 am » |
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I was just waiting for Cubs to tell us what the net loss is on this with the glass plant planning to axe some people, then blame it on Gov. Henry.
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