Guidelines for Writing Your Employee Self-

Assessment

Purpose

The purpose of an Employee Self-Assessment is to assist employees and supervisors in

preparing for performance evaluations. Completing the self-assessment allows you contribute

to the performance discussion. Your self-assessment can help you to reflect on your

performance over the past year and to document your accomplishments and their impact on

your department. It is also an opportunity to link the UC Core Competencies to your job duties,

 If you keep a performance log to track major accomplishments and work throughout the

year, review your log to help you reconstruct your performance over the past year. If

not, take time to review your calendar and other records of your work.

 Reflect on the purpose of your job and how it contributes to the mission of your

department, division, and the organization.

Writing Your Employee Self-Assessment

 Identify your work priorities over the past year based on your goals and objectives,

discussions with your supervisor, or tasks.

 For each priority, describe your work and accomplishments. Questions to address

o What obstacles did you have to overcome?

Tips

 Be specific. Don’t say, “Supported the student records project.” Instead, indicate what

you did specifically and how it supported the overall goals.

 Be objective and stay focused on results.

 While it is important to be thorough, a self -assessment doesn’t have to be long to be

effective.

Sample Accomplishment Statements

When reflecting on your accomplishments for the performance year, describe the task and how

which led to more rapid and accurate reports in direct support of our

department goal to improve student services.

Accomplishment: Successfully hired, coached, and mentored two employees who have

recently passed probation. Employees are fully integrated into the

department and making contributions to achieving team goals.

Accomplishment: Successfully led the annual budget review for division management. Division

This improved relations with campus personnel and gave accurate

procedural information to PIs which reduced duplicate requests and errors in

submissions.

Accomplishment: After discussing best practices with the team, I simplified and redesigned the

process for updating records and implemented this change. By reducing the

time required to update records, our team accomplished this task in half the

time that was required last year.

Sample Action Verbs to Use

Use these action verbs as appropriate to help describe your work.