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Self reviews are the worst. Too high and you're a bragger. Too low and you don't have any self-confidence. Lose lose imo. I typically rate myself at three out of four, and most of my employees are four out of four just to get them the highest increase available.
Coincidentally, I was just questioned about that today. I defended my position and held strong!
I don't know about your situation, but I encourage you to detail out everything you've done that wasn't a complete mess. For those things that were, point out the "stretch opportunities" and new areas of focus for your personal development. No one else is going to go to bat for you if you don't give them an easy pitch.
Tell them you’re a mf’ dawg
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“Woohoo I am awesome!!!”
Pump yourself up. Be realistic and prepared to defend it. But sometimes managers are too non-confrontational to disagree and will give you the review you give yourself. I’ve gotten the an exceeding review 4 years in a row doing this across 2 different companies.
From my opinion, this self evaluation (performance review) is actually an evaluation gap between you and manager. Your manager would like to find out what you think about your annual performance compared to your manager’s so that he/she could bring the gap smaller and set his/her expectations. Don’t be stressful about it. Be honest and write what you think about your job performance. I would rate myself from 3-3.5 scale if the highest is 5. It’s up to your manager’s rating. Good luck!
I HATE self evaluations. I usually get together with my coworkers and we do them together. My boss never gives any positive feedback or accolades, so we use it as an opportunity to brag on ourselves and each other. You've heard of keeping a "brag book" of your accomplishments, put it in the self-eval. Even if your boss never gives you credit for your work, it's your way of making sure it's on paper somewhere and that he has to respond to it. Anyways, if these are going to determine bonus or raises, best to make sure he/she doesn't forget all the great work you did for them right before they make the decision.
If you did a great job, give yourself the high rankings! Brag away!
Chief
Depends on how everyone else rates themselves. Using numbers (1-5). If the average employee rates themselves a 4 and you are better than average and rank yourself a 3 that’s a problem.
Usually you would gather feedback first from all the people you worked with, and then incorporate that into your self-evaluation. Along with the other comment about documenting everything that went well and points to improve on going forward, that should be a good start for you
Chief
We have a 1-4 rating, but you aren’t allowed to choose 1 because 1s would be laid off, so they restrict the scale to 1-3 (1 being a 2 out of 4 on the 4 scale rating). So I rate myself a 2 (out of 3, equal to a 3 out of 4) because I hate rating myself the maximum rating, but I do pretty good. Overall I think it’s fairly dumb to have a 1-3 scale but whatever. Just be honest and stay humble
Chief
Trust me, it makes no sense to me either
I try to rate myself based on metrics set for each of my objectives for the year. Like if I completed all or most of my goals then I did fantastic but if I could have done better or was rated as such, perhaps it's worth the honesty.