NY1's Employment reporter Asa Aarons features Coworkers.com

We recently had the opportunity to speak with Asa Aarons of NY1, New York City's 24-Hour News Channel...

New Websites Provide Inside Look Into Jobs

"The Internet is where practically all of the good employment information is showing up these days. Two new companies are promising ways to help job seekers land their dream job...

...Staying with the idea that feedback is a good thing in the career world, check out Coworkers.com, which is based partly on the idea that successful people thrive on honest feedback...

"Coworkers.com is all about the question 'How's my work?'" says James Young of Coworkers.com. "We provide tools that let you get feedback so that you can figure out what your strengths are and promote them, and also figure out where your weaknesses are so you can improve them and advance your career."

• Watch a video of the full segment on NY1.com

Self-Reviews can help you improve work performance and boost salary

Coworkers.com has offered self-review tools since it's inception. A recent article on Cube Rules discusses the real world benefits of self-reviews in the workplace:

"Your performance review facts become your performance review ratings. And what you can’t tell your coworkers is this: you will write an accurate self-review while most of your coworkers will not. If they write a self-review at all...

As a manager, I looked at hundreds of self-reviews given by the people that worked for me. I can count on one hand how many people provided a complete self-review. Those that did had one of two influences on my rating: they justified my thinking on the rating by providing facts and figures. Or they showed me accomplishments that I had forgotten about and needed to include in my thinking about the rating...

You understand that only the employees, focused on their career, did this accurate self-review, right? And when I say they justified my thinking on the rating by providing facts and figures, you realize that the justification was for a higher rating, right? More pay and a larger bonus..."

Honest, accurate, and frequent self-reviews not only help you focus on improving your skills, they can have a concrete impact on your career and compensation. The article quoted above makes this point quite clear.

• Read the full article at Cube Rules
• Use Coworkers.com to create & manage your Self-review

RiseSmart: "Coworker feedback: transparent versus confidential"

We have been featured on The RiseSmart Blog

Here are some highlights: "...Transparency is great… for recommendations, which are meant to seen by strangers, and need to be trustworthy and verifiable. But for improving your current work habits, without switching jobs or involving a recruiter, isn’t confidential feedback more valuable and timely?

That is where Coworkers.com comes in. They launched about a year and a half ago, and the purpose of the site is to let you accumulate frank and private evaluations from past and current colleagues. You are evaluated in terms of your core values, your interpersonal skills, your general competence, and your productivity, and given analytical tools to help you interpret and improve your skills..."

"With this broader focus, the site is mixing private and public feedback. The site also has a paid section that is targeted at Human Resources, and aims to assist in researching candidates and managing employees...

...But I just haven’t seen anything with the scope and ambition of Coworkers, particularly with this recent drive to be used by entire teams and supplant enterprise software with a website. Very interesting, indeed."

• Click here to read the full article

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"Get To Work: Take this job and love it?" Coworkers.com featured on SF Gate

We've been featured in today's SF Gate,
San Francisco Chronicle, blog:

Tom Abate: "Okay, so you're in the roughly 88 percent of the California workforce that does have a job. At this time of skyrocketing unemployment, what can you do to preserve and protect it?

One possibility is to tap into a new genre of Web sites, like Coworkers.com, that let you get frank and confidential assessments of your work performance from current and former associates.

"You no longer have to wait for your boss to tell you how you're doing, or what you need to do to address any issues," Coworkers founder Jonathan Clay says in a promo.

It's a new site and a new concept, so if anyone has experience to share, it would be helpful to know if there is a payback for inviting criticism -- and whether it is constructive or destructive..."

Read on at SFGate.com

Performance Review Software For the Rest of Us

Are you still emailing around Office documents, or (gasp!) using paper forms, to facilitate periodic performance reviews?

If you have been wary of moving to a costly or cumbersome enterprise-level performance management software solution, you'll be pleased to see how Coworkers.com can make review management flexible and affordable.

• Use our template builder to easily create & save web-based versions of your existing internal review and feedback forms
• Leverage our growing library of existing review templates - use them as-is, or modify to suit you needs
  
• Your entire company or distributed work-group can choose to adopt Coworkers.com as your platform for ongoing reviews and feedback - at the fraction of cost of traditional enterprise packages
• Our privacy controls allow users to request and respond to reviews within a closed loop, or share with others if desired
• Our service is web-based and secure, so you can be up and running quickly
  

Take advantage of Coworkers.com templates and other features today...

Data-Driven Feedback: Analytics For The Work You Do

With our unique analytical capabilities, you can get immediate, quantifiable and chart-able feedback on a report, presentation, campaign, or other work event or milestone, gaining an assessment of your effectiveness while building a comprehensive dossier of career accomplishments and marketable skills.

As you accumulate feedback (both private, and shared), you will be able to quickly visualize and identify aspects of your work that need improvement.


Our basic account has 8 distinctive chart types:

• Breakdown By Feedback Type
• Breakdown By Attribution
• Visibility (private vs. public)
• Score Distribution
• Overall Performance Over Time
• Category Performance Over Time (work performance, document, event, etc.)
• Breakdown By Subject Type, Visibility
• Breakdown By Group (grouped by respondents the user categorizes)

Gain greater insight into your career.
Get started with Coworkers.com Analytics today...