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16 Sep 09 Writing Your Personal Performance Review

Writing a personal performance review is a difficult thing to do at times.  Whether you’ve been with the same company for years, or this is your first review at your new job.  Both have their own pitfalls.  For the veteran you don’t want to sound as though you just don’t have much to offer anymore.  For the newbie, it’s hard to find that comfortable middle ground of fluffing yourself up, without making your review seem phony.  Writing a personal review can leave you feeling some anxiety, but just keep calm and remember these tips:

-Try keeping a list of achievements as you accomplish them, as that always comes in handy later.  This way you have detailed evidence for why you’ve been a good employee this term.  Having the facts to back up your claims is always a very important thing to have on your side.

-With that great list of achievements you’ve been keeping, now you can make use of it in the actual writing of your review.  On almost any personal review you’ll notice many categories seem very redundant, almost as if they’re asking for the same information multiple times.  Take that list of achievements and decide which fits into each category the best.  Have a copy of your job description on hand so that you can better distribute them into the right categories.

-Try to find a comfortable middle ground when you rate your actual performance level.  You don’t want to show that you feel you’re a perfect employee.  Otherwise your boss will feel you believe you’ve hit your peak.  In which case if your boss doesn’t agree, you almost make yourself expendable by looking like an employee that’s given all they have to offer.  Don’t mark yourself too high or too low.  This way if you’re one of the top employees you show that you feel you have room for growth, so that you can become even better.

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