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

The Upside of Hiring Now

Inc.com: "Why companies who can add employees now should."

"As pink slips pile up nationwide, hiring may seem like a risky – or downright foolish – move for employers. Yet, according to many career counseling experts, if you can afford to, now is a great time to augment your staff..."

Key points:

• There is a much larger pool of extremely talented people who are hungrier than ever
• Employers can find talented and valuable workers who are more open to flexile relationships like contract work or part-time positions
• Companies to look to this labor pool, if not for new hires than to replace their own inefficient workers

Read the article for the full scoop.

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