Engineering Employee Review
One of the worst parts of any new engineering job is when you get your first employee review. Even if you think you are doing a very good job, there is a level of uncertainty that you may have. This can be a good thing, actually, as it means you care about your profession and your job performance. You should look to your review as a good tool to help you work better and a good time to talk to your superiors about what you can do to improve and what may be standing in your way of doing a better job than you are already doing.
I once worked with a guy who told me that a perfect employee review was like the kiss of death. I first didn’t understand why he said this, but after he explained I finally understood. No one is perfect, and if you get a perfect employee review you really have two problems. For one, that means no one is really paying attention to what you are doing, and they are not giving your suggestions for improvement. Also, a perfect review gives you no breathing room. If you go from a perfect one to one that suggests you have some work to do, it might appear you are slipping in your duties. Neither of these will do your engineering career much good.
As a new engineer at a new job, your first employee review should be something you don’t take too much to heart. You need to study what they have said, and you must work to improvement, but you should not take it too bad if it isn’t what you had hoped. When you first start out you have a lot to learn no matter how many years you spent in engineering school. Think of your first employee review as a list of possible personal skills that you need to work on, and think of it as life experience. We’ve all been there and survived and you will too.
If you think your employee review is too harsh, you should talk to your superiors about what is going on. Don’t walk in and say that you know you are doing a better job, and certainly don’t go in with an attitude problem. Take your employee review in and ask them for help. Say that you are bothered that you did so badly, and you would like some guidance about what you can do to improve your job performance. They will see that you are easy to work with and that you care about your job, and those are two of the best qualities you can have.
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If there is a good two way relationship between employee and line manager, there should be few surprises in a review. Personally, I like to get feedback on my work regularly to allow me to maintain a steady rate of improvement throughout the year, not just at review time.
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The article is very well written and would follow the advice given.
I have had a couple of employee reviews before and the “gossip” around the workplace was you might be getting sacked, don’t listen to them though. If you know you have been doing a good job you have nothing to worry about.
Regards
Dan
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i do think employee reviews are good and should be looked upon as a motivational factor in your job role. If you perform better at work, you will feel better and become more succesfull.
I think that the best thing is to get a good, solid employee review. Thaen you have enough space to improve in the future and to make progress over time. If you get a perfect emplyee review then you’ve just put yourself under a lot of pressure to maintain the same level in the future. Also, a perfect employee review could incite some jealousy related problems with less successful coleagues.
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