Self-assessment in business can help you advocate for better pay or promotions, and evaluate areas for improvement. Companies may ask for self-assessment before reviews, and it’s important to be truthful and well-written. It’s also important to list contributions and improvements, and turn negatives into positives.
Self-assessment in business can refer to your opportunity to contribute to the review of your job performance. The ability to accurately self-evaluate can help you advocate for better pay, promotions, or evaluate areas where you need to improve before asking for such things. Your self-evaluation should be well written and emphasize your strengths or contributions to your work, but it should also be realistic.
Many companies conduct reviews on an annual or semi-annual basis. They don’t always ask employees to use the self-assessment, or they may guide the self-assessment with specific questions to help employees decide how to respond. Many reviews, if they don’t include a self-assessment portion, give you the opportunity to sign in agreement with the review and offer you space for comments and the option not to sign if you feel something hasn’t been reviewed properly. Unless you have a very significant beef with your company over a review, not signing can be a mistake unless it’s accompanied by a reasoned car review.
If a self-assessment corrects part of a review, it shouldn’t do so accusingly. Instead, use qualifying words to gently correct a supervisor. For example, if you are in sales you may be rated on the percentage of sales per customer. If you were scored incorrectly, something you should keep track of for your own reference, you could make the following statement: “I believe my closing ratio of 89 sales per 100 customers was slightly inaccurate. My records show a rate of 95 sales per 100 customers.”
Companies may ask an employee to complete a self-assessment before a review is written and filed. Again it helps to track your performance, especially in those areas that society values the most. If you’re a producer, you may be able to claim that you’ve completed certain tasks with a high percentage (know the percentage when you can) of accuracy. Letting an employer know that you’ve done work in less than the required time can also be a benefit. List any contributions you’ve made that go beyond your job, such as volunteering on company projects, providing extra training, training others, or managing teams.
Always try to correlate any additional activity with the success rate. If you ran a safety team, you may be able to claim that your team helped reduce the accident or workplace injury rate within the company by a certain percentage. These things may matter, because they save your business money. Listing special training opportunities are important because they show you’ve become a more valuable employee.
Self-assessment forms may also ask you to list areas where you need to improve. Be careful when answering these types of questions. Try to turn any negatives into positives when you can. For example, if you’ve been having trouble getting to work on time for the first few months of the year, you can mention it and explain how you fixed the problem and why it’s no longer a problem. If you’ve made a mistake about something, you can point out how it taught you to be more cautious or skillful at your job and has led to better job performance. Try to keep answers truthful, but spin them so the employer understands how mistakes or problems have contributed to making you a better employee, or how you’ve set new goals to improve your performance.
When you can, type your self-assessment and check it carefully for spelling errors or grammatical issues. Since the employer is looking at your written account, what and how you write suddenly represents you. It is evident that well-written self-reports are likely to be valued more than illegible and incorrect ones.
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