Content

• Steps
• Part 1 of 3: Analyze Your Achievements
• Part 2 of 3: Support statements with facts
• Part 3 of 3: Set New Professional Goals
• Tips

Writing a self-assessment is a task that can be stressful and even intimidating for you, but self-assessment can be your tool for achieving career goals and contributing to the work of the organization.Whether you are writing a self-assessment because you are tasked with doing it, or you have decided to do it yourself as part of self-development, the work is worth the effort. Review your accomplishments, back up words with facts, and set new professional goals for yourself to write an effective self-assessment.

Steps

Part 1 of 3: Analyze Your Achievements

1. 1 Take time to work. Comprehensive and effective self-assessment takes time, so put the task on your schedule. If you rush, you run the risk of missing out on important achievements and growth opportunities, as a result of which the finished job will be less productive, since it will not reflect your career in full detail.
   • Sometimes it's helpful to think about a plan ahead of time.
2. 2 Examine your goals. Self-assessment should show that you are successfully achieving both your personal goals and the overall goals of the company. For the organization to see you as an effective employee, it is especially important to demonstrate a commitment to work for the good of the company.
   • Self-esteem work will show how your career aspirations are being realized, as you will see if your hard work helps you achieve your goals.
3. 3 List your achievements. Build on goals and list the work done in the last year. Indicate completed projects, participation in working groups and all reports prepared. The list should include everything from attracted clients to led by project teams.
   • Evaluate all work materials such as emails and reports: which ones can serve as examples of your work and confirmation of achievements. Refresh your memory, and also provide excerpts from the texts and exact numbers.
   • As you record your accomplishments, think about how they compare to your goals. These connections will help you choose the right wording. So, if your goal is to increase sales, and you made calls to potential customers, you can say that you "initiated sales" or "looked for new sales opportunities" rather than "made cold calls."
4. 4 Focus on yourself. Self-assessment should only contain your achievements, not the work of the entire team. Demonstrate how you participated in team tasks, and also indicate your qualities related to teamwork.
5. 5 Explain the difficulties encountered. Each employee has flaws. You should honestly identify your weaknesses in order to eliminate the weaknesses. Analyze all the difficulties. This will help you set new goals and choose useful growth opportunities.
   • Think back to times when you didn’t manage to get the job done, needed help from others, or wondered if you were doing a task correctly.
   • Give examples. As with successes, concrete examples are important to prove the need for professional growth opportunities.
   • If you find it difficult to identify your shortcomings, talk to a close coworker, mentor, or boss. This will give you time to deal with deficiencies and be able to show progress in your self-esteem work.
6. 6 Explain what you have done to grow professionally. Write down your professional development activities over the past year, then relate them to your goals and past gaps. Show how successfully you have overcome all difficulties and worked hard to become the employee that your organization needs.
   • Indicate career goals that were completed outside of working hours, as well as those that were part of work projects.
7. 7 Collect reviews. Feedback on your work over the past year will be proof of achievement and help identify aspects for further development. If available, be sure to include feedback from your boss, colleagues, and clients.
8. 8 Set yourself apart from the rest. Show your organization your unique qualities that you are ready to use in your work.For example, do you have several higher educations and know foreign languages? Indicate these qualities in your self-assessment to demonstrate your contribution to the company.
   • How are you different from other employees? How do you contribute beyond just doing your job? Evaluation focuses on your performance, so showcase your personal contribution and value to the organization.
   • Indicate how your efforts have helped the team meet or exceed its goals.

Part 2 of 3: Support statements with facts

1. 1 Provide evidence of your accomplishments. Review the list of accomplishments, and then list the projects and tasks that led to those accomplishments. Analyze all tasks and briefly describe the work performed using active verbs.
   • Active verbs will show you what work was done in a specific time frame. For example, you can indicate that you evaluated the results of a study, trained a new employee, or developed a new project.
   • Write the truth. While you might want to describe your accomplishments in a way that portrays you in the most favorable light, do not forget about the accuracy of the information. For example, you should not indicate that you were in charge of a project if you were the sole executor.
2. 2 Quantify the results of your work. Back up your accomplishments with quantitative examples - statistics, percentages, or absolute numbers. For example, report, “I increased my number of clients by 20%” or “I decreased the number of problem reports by 15%.” You can also give exact numbers like: "I did 5 studies" or "The average growth was 4 clients per day."
3. 3 Provide quality data. Prepare a list of quality examples to prove your accomplishments, especially in areas of work where hard numbers are not available. Qualitative examples will show that you have taken action but cannot provide numbers. For example: "I have improved the quality of customer support by developing a new web application."
   • Qualitative examples provide excellent evidence when the action taken is important, regardless of the magnitude of the results. For example, if you are leading a youth alcohol prevention project, whatever steps you take will be helpful, even if you only helped one teenager.
4. 4 Attach reviews. Use positive reviews of your accomplishments to show your colleagues' attention to your successes. Include only reviews that clearly support your accomplishments so that your self-assessment is accurate and useful.

Part 3 of 3: Set New Professional Goals

1. 1 Examine the results. Reread your self-assessment text, paying particular attention to how well you met last year's personal and overall goals. Identify weaknesses that need improvement. Examine the deficiencies identified and the areas to work on.
2. 2 Set new goals. Based on the identified problems and shortcomings, formulate new professional goals for the next year. Pick about two new goals and remember to keep working on the overall goals of the company.
   • When setting goals, remember that you will need to confirm that you can achieve them and be ready to take action in terms of professional growth. Set goals for yourself with these requirements in mind.
   • Don't set hard-to-achieve goals. Choose goals that are realistic to achieve by the time of the next self-assessment.
3. 3 Discuss the self-assessment text. Make an appointment with your boss to discuss self-esteem. Prepare to provide explanations for the information provided. Communicate new goals and explain why you settled on such areas.
4. 4 Get your boss's opinion. When your boss has finished examining your self-assessment results, ask him about your weaknesses and strengths.Ask your boss for his new personal goals and let him make adjustments.
5. 5 Suggest initiatives for professional growth. Discuss your previous shortcomings with your boss and come up with ideas for career growth for the next year. Listen to your boss's suggestions and try to think with an open mind. Show that you are aware of your shortcomings and strive to become better.
6. 6 Finalize your new goals. Based on your conversation with your boss, finalize your new goals and revise your self-assessment.
   • Keep a copy of the document for reference if necessary.

Tips

• Plan the next assessment with your manager: define specific goals and criteria for evaluating those goals (scorecard). Agree in advance about how you will be assessed based on your results so that you and your manager do not have a difference in your understanding of goals.
• Update your resume after completing your self-assessment.
• Schedule quarterly meetings with your manager to discuss improvements and set goals that can be used in your next self-assessment.
• Be honest about your accomplishments, strengths, and weaknesses.