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Competences — debt collector

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/50a66df6-c141-4b4a-937a-d3bc55737ae3).

Essential

  • assess customers (skill/competence)
  • calculate debt costs (skill/competence)
  • communicate with customers (skill/competence)
  • create solutions to problems (skill/competence)
  • credit control processes (knowledge)
  • debt classification (knowledge)
  • debt collection techniques (knowledge)
  • debt systems (knowledge)
  • enforce customer's debt repayment (skill/competence)
  • facilitate official agreement (skill/competence)
  • have computer literacy (skill/competence)
  • keep task records (skill/competence)
  • maintain client debt records (skill/competence)
  • perform debt investigation (skill/competence)
  • pose questions referring to documents (skill/competence)
  • process payments (skill/competence)
  • secure sensitive customer's information (skill/competence)
  • show diplomacy (skill/competence)
  • use communication techniques (skill/competence)

Optional

  • civil process order (knowledge)
  • consumer protection (knowledge)
  • counsel clients (skill/competence)
  • law of obligation (knowledge)
  • meet deadlines (skill/competence)
  • office software (knowledge)
  • organisational structure (knowledge)
  • present reports (skill/competence)
  • product comprehension (knowledge)

Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 56 ads, as of 2026-07-11)

Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.

Hard skills

  • debt collection — 45 %
  • negotiation — 29 %
  • account management — 27 %