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Referring to a process where a worker's ability to do the work is evaluated. Within North America, most big companies will have these annually and some may have these after completing a probationary period. The quality and quantity of work are evaluated as well as setting goals, and expectations for the coming work period.

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How to do Annual Self Evaluations at work

That would depend on your boss and your actual performance. You look like a clueless idiot if you rate yourself as all 5s and your boss thinks you are all 2 and 3's. On the other hand, I suspect that …
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What is an annual review supposed to be for?

While I am not a fan of annual performance reviews, they do exist for one specific reason - to have documentary evidence of performance that can be used for annual raises (and if you think your job is …
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Is it common to have HR sit in during performance review?

It makes a difference if HR is being asked to sit in on all reviews or only those from a specific reviewer for for specific individuals. If they are sitting in on all reviews, there may well be a com …
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How to present myself under the best light when my responsibilities include a lot of small m...

What you do is keep records though the year concerning what I did. I usually have emails folders for tasks completed, attaboys from others in the organization and clients and escalations. This makes i …
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How to approach Performance Evaluation when Goals/Objectives have not been defined in writin...

There are two purposes to the self appraisal. The first is to remind your busy boss of what you have done The best bosses keep notes but even they miss some things. Most bosses just don't (or worse on …
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Some Questions on Performance Reviewing

Any management position generally involves reviewing others. It comes with the territory. If you do not want to review others then accept that you will not be considered for mangement positions (even …
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Boss can't articulate how I can improve during performance review. Now what?

OK you have to realize that in many places your ranking has nothing to do with how your immediate boss perceives your performance and everything to do with how well he can defend your rating to the ot …
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Strategies for asking for a bonus for an early completion of a project?

Well I for one would rather have a pay raise than a bonus "Scheme". Management might like this idea because in the long run it is way to pay you less (a pay raise is forever, a bonus is once). Bonuses …
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Does reviewing employees for raises by ranking them have a negative effect?

First, you have to get past the idea that performance appraisals or salary increases are ever fair. They are not and they never will be. There simply isn't enough money in the budget to go around and …
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Implementing Peer Review System

I can think of a lot of words to describe peer review but fun is most certainly not one of them. If you want your workplace to become a Darwinian hot-bed of survival of the fittest, go with peer revie …
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How can an employee perform a self-appraisal without being arrogant?

Since you are going to asked this question every year at pretty much most companies, get in the habit of keeping notes for it during the year. Then write out the facts. I did XYZ and DEF which helped …
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How to explain a bad performance review

If the manager was let go for his own bad performance, you may be ok as long as you don't diss him. In some respects just knowing the bad score came from a manager who was not well-thought of can hel …
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Does receiving a Performance Improvement Plan suggest my job is on the line?

Even if you choose to look for other jobs, you should seriously try to meet the conditions of the PIP. You may learn things that will help you in your next job. You may find that you can be successfu …
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Goal setting for the end of the year

Yes it is bad in most performance systems to have an unachieved goal. You have to understand how most of these systems work. They don't care what you did - only if you did what the system says you …
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Performance Appraisal, Manager & Project change

The old supervisor's reaction tells me that the rating was not a typo or mistake. If it was he would not be avoiding you. Now as to how that can happen, let's talk a bit about performance ratings an …
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