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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
Your interviewer is curious how your approach to customer service aligns with theirs and how effectively you can represent their company to their clients. One of their eight leadership principles is 'customer obsession.' This is something they expect every employee to share and have in common. "All leaders have a cause, the customer. Leaders understand their customers and with absolute dedication, ensure that serving the customer comes first. Leaders see the world from the customer's perspective and foresee their problems. They understand that to keep the trust, the customer needs to come above anything else."

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"To me, my job duties aren't fully satisfied if an end user leaves our conversation without a smile on their face. While any technical support specialist can handle the customer aspect of the job, few have the people skills to do so pleasantly for their customers. If they aren't having a good experience, I can't rest until they do. In any interaction that I have with a customer, I talk in a calm and boosting manner. If they are upset or mad about a situation, I reflectively listen and never place any blame back on them. By taking this approach, my customer surveys in my current position have been excellent for the three years I've held that role."

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"If hired for this role here at Klarna AB, you'll quickly find that my mantra in working with customers is speed with a smile. To do this, I need to be resourceful in providing an answer or connecting them with the correct person. I need to be knowledgeable about our product base to confidently give them answers. And last but not least, I need to be positive in all interactions with them."

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
While reflecting on your approach to customer service, ask yourself how you fit their description of what it means to be customer-obsessed. Talk about your feelings on what providing great service means to you, and recall an example or two of ways you have delivered such above-and-beyond customer service in the recent past.

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To me, one of my duties is to fulfill customers' or stakeholders' needs. It's important to fully understand their needs and deliver the top services. When interacting with a customer, I talk patiently in a calm and boosting manner. If they are upset or mad about a situation, I reflectively listen and never place any blame back on them. By taking this approach, I usually got good feedback and thanks letters from customers.
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Great! The interviewer will appreciate that you understand the importance of providing exceptional customer service. You've also done a good job of explaining how you give this type of service: by remaining calm, being an active listener, and never blaming the customer. Nice! Can you also discuss a time when you provided this type of service and what the end result was?
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