I used to work for a University. Every year, you were supposed to be evaluated by your boss. I didn’t mind since I knew that I was a good employee. However, I had a boss one year that wanted us to do employee self evaluation. Huh? He gave us the evaluation form and had us fill it out. That was the most difficult evaluation I ever did! I didn’t want to give yourself the highest score possible and I certainly didn’t want to give myself too low of scores either. Fortunately, I knew what my strengths and weaknesses were and my boss was happy with the way I filled out the evaluation. Other employees in our group didn’t do as well. We had a couple people that felt they were the best employees ever and filled out the form with the highest marks. They had to change it, under his guidance. They still did not understand why they were given lower marks.
21 September 2007, 7:20 am
I recently returned to work after a very long absense & had never had to fill out an evaluation form & was asked to do a self evaluation report after 2 months of employment. Certainly was a shock to have to do it as well as being back in the ‘paid workforce’. Only thing with the questions is they were grouped & I felt I was more competent in some than others so to me it wasn’t a realistic overview of my performance. Am having my ‘evaluation meeting’ this week. I feel I’ve settled in very well & sometimes I think he forgets that I’m only working part-time but expects a full time workload.
25 September 2007, 4:10 am
I like the thing of self evaluation in a company, it somehow makes you realized and thought of how are you doing as an employee. Well, it needs some honesty to figure it out. But I think out of shame you will not rank yourself as high as possible if you know you’re not that good.