Author:
Monica Porter
Date Of Creation:
16 March 2021
Update Date:
1 July 2024
Content
Writing a self-assessment can be a stressful, sometimes intimidating task, but it is also a tool to help you reach your career goals and contribute to the organization where you work. Whether you are asked to write a self-assessment or voluntarily write it as part of your personal development plan, it will be worth the effort. To write an effective self-assessment, you need to reflect on your accomplishments, provide evidence to support your claims, and set new professional goals.
Steps
Part 1 of 3: Think about your achievements
Take time to meditate. A detailed and effective self-assessment will take a long time to write, so it is a good idea to arrange enough time to complete this task. If you are in a hurry, you may miss out on important achievements or growth opportunities, making your self-assessment less effective, because it doesn't really reflect your career progress.
- You should prepare an outline before writing.
Review your goals. The self-assessment should show that you are achieving your own goals and your company goals in general. Most importantly, to prove yourself an effective employee, you must show that you are striving to achieve the company's goals.- The assessment will help you know if you are on the right track to meet your career requirements, because through it you can see if all your efforts are meeting your goals.
List your achievements. Based on your goals, make a list of all the work you have completed in the past year. Include in the list of events such as completed projects, committees attended, and draft reports. This checklist should include everything - from client records you keep to the committee you lead.- Evaluate work documents, such as emails or reports, to serve as work examples and to document your performance.
- When listing accomplishments, think about how they will meet your goals and use this to present your presentation. For example, if your goal is to increase sales and you are calling leads, say that you have "started a sale" or "increased your chances of selling at the points selling "instead of" calling potential customers ".
Focus on yourself. This is a self-assessment, so you should only state your own achievements, not including the team's achievements. Describe how you contributed to the team work, including your qualities as a member of the team.
Interpret difficulties. Every employee has weaknesses, and recognizing their flaws is the only way to fix it. You must reflect on your struggles to set new goals and choose beneficial growth opportunities.
- Think about times when you were left behind at work, when you needed support, or when you wondered if you were doing this right.
- Give examples. As for achievements, give examples to show that you are in need of career growth opportunities.
- If you are having trouble identifying your weaknesses, talk to a colleague you trust, your mentor or your manager.
Presentation of development initiatives. Document your professional development activities over the past year, relating to your previous goals and weaknesses. Demonstrating how successful you were and overcoming the difficulties, how diligent you worked to become the type of employee the company wanted.
- Mention professional development activities you have completed on your own time as well as activities that you have performed as part of the job.
Collect feedback. The feedback you receive over the past year will serve as a tool to demonstrate your accomplishments and help you identify areas for development. Be sure to state the responses of your managers, colleagues, and customers, if any.
Show your difference. Show your company the unique qualities you contribute to the company. For example, do you have a wide range of backgrounds or are you bilingual? Include those traits in your self-assessment to show your company how much you've contributed to its culture.
- What makes you a standout employee? Think about the traits you bring to your company and beyond the job requirements. This assessment focuses on your performance, so you need to include details that support your contribution as an individual.
- If possible, you can demonstrate how much effort you have made to help your team meet or exceed the company's goals.
Part 2 of 3: Giving evidence for the points you make
Prove your achievements. Take a closer look at your list of accomplishments and list out all the work you've done as part of that achievement. Once you've reviewed your results, keep it short with action verbs.
- Action verbs describe what you have done with specific words. For example, you might say that you evaluated the survey results, trained new employees or initiated a new project.
- Be honest. While it's a good idea to write about your accomplishments in a way that reflects well about yourself, you need to make sure everything is correct. For example, don't write that you have managerial experience when your job is independent business, as you are actually only managing yourself.
Quantify your results. Prove your achievements with quantitative facts, such as statistics, percentages or totals. For example, you could say, "I have increased my number of customers by 20%" or "I have reduced my error messages by 15%." You can also use simple calculations like "I completed 5 surveys" or "I served an average of 4 clients per day."
Provide qualitative data. Prepare a list of qualitative evidence to support your accomplishments, especially in areas where you cannot provide numbers. These references show your accomplishments but are not able to provide figures. For example, you could say, "I improved customer support by creating a new web application."
- Qualitative data is a great way to go when you do meaningful work, no matter the outcome. For example, if you run a program that stops teenagers from drinking, whatever you do can help, even if you can only help one child stop drinking.
Give feedback. Relate positive feedback to what you have done to show that your contributions in the workplace are recognized. Only state responses that clearly support your performance so that your self-assessment is accurate and effective. advertisement
Part 3 of 3: Setting new career goals
Review the results. Reread the review, paying close attention to how successful you and your company's goals have been for the past year. Identify gaps that need improvement, then look at the problems you've identified to see which areas need to be better.
Set new goals initially. Building on the gaps and constraints identified, you should build new career goals for the year ahead. Work toward two new goals, and remember that you will continue to strive to achieve the company's goal.
- When setting goals, keep in mind that you will have to provide support for the goals achieved, and that you will have to be able to initiate development initiatives. Set goals so that you can meet the requirements.
- Avoid setting ambiguous goals that are hard to achieve. Choose the goals that you will achieve the next time you evaluate.
Discuss the self-assessment. Organize a calendar with a manager to review your results. You should be prepared to interpret information outlined in the self-assessment. Present your new goals and explain why you should be in this spotlight for next year.
Please feedback. Once your manager has looked at the results of your self-assessment, ask them about areas where you need improvement and areas where you have shown success. Ask them for their opinion on your new goals and let them help you adjust to those goals.
Proposal for professional development initiatives. Discuss previous years with your manager and ideas for professional development. Listen to your manager's suggestions and open up to their ideas. Show them that you are overcoming your weaknesses and reaching for success.
Complete new goals. Based on the manager's response, complete your new goals and adjust your self-assessment to accommodate the changes.
- Remember to keep a copy of the assessment so that you can refer to it when needed.
Advice
- Plan with your manager to plan your next assessment by setting specific goals and setting how those goals will be measured (metrics). Agree in advance on how you will be evaluated against the results; That way, you and your manager will agree on goals.
- Update your resume after completing the assessment.
- Schedule a meeting with the manager to discuss progress and goal setting that you can use in your next self-assessment.
- Be honest about your achievements, strengths, and weaknesses.
