Had my performance appraisal interview yesterday. Our practice is we have to fill in our performance evaluation form and submit to our immdiate boss. In this performance evaluation form, we have to wrie down our 5 main performance objectives which we ll be appraised on. For us, we would write our 5 most important reports in our portfolio. Subsequently, you need to fill in how you felt you did in each of the reports and give yourself a rating, 5 being the best and 1 being the worst. Also, we need to fill in on people management and interaction. This is because we supervise about 4 clerks, we have to write how we manage them, how we develop and coach them etc. Lastly, we would have to fill in competencies and what we would like to develop. Competencies such as time management, supervisory skills, core values such as integrity, trust etc. And last but not least, we have to state how we feel about our overall performance. Submitted this to boss abt 2-3 weeks ago.

Yesterday was the appraisal interview. They would show you what they have written about you and the rating they give you. I have looked through the whole form and were overall satisfied with my results. In fact, when I returned to my seat and checked out how the scores were calculated, I was exhilerated! I have scored almost a full mark of 5! They have rewarded me for one full year of hard work and all the effort I have put into my work. However, I am just curious to find out if they would recommend me for a promotion. Well, the answer will be out in 3 months time i.e. beginning of March. That time, I would be able to tell everyone how I did and if I had been promoted. Right now, I can only do my best, wait for the results to be out and then also decide to make my way to leave this dept and move on to the next to learn new things.

Also in this appraisal interview, they will ask you how you feel about your job, are you happy, is this what you are looking for as a career as well as let you know how they feel about you. They said really nice things like positive working attitude, the quality of work you produce is great, we don't have to worry if we let you do any piece of work blah blah blah. They also commented on areas which I would need improvement and they also mentioned my objectives of next year. I also told them I want to go for training next year as I havent been for any this year and I thought it was quite unfair to me. Anyway, this is abt it!

I can't wait for March to come!!!!!