All help desk personnel need excellent problem-solving, communication and interpersonal skills, along with patience, a customer-friendly attitude and the ability to work in a team environment. In addition, they should have a strong technical understanding of the various hardware, software and networking systems they support. Employer requirements depend on the help desk position level.
Typical help desk tier 1 duties:
Taking initial telephone or email inquiries and troubleshooting and managing relatively simple hardware, software or network problemsRecognizing and escalating more difficult problems to Tier II supportLogging call activityResolving more complex issues requiring detailed systems and applications knowledge; these issues have been escalated from Tier IDeciding whether to generate a trouble or work order ticket for issues that will require a visit to the user’s PC or workstation
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