Preparing for your annual review
10 June 2013
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Tomorrow is the big day! Whether this face-to-face meeting is considered by your employer as an unavoidable but boring step, or whether they have prepared it seriously, you must consider that it is your meeting and not come empty-handed.
What is the annual review?
It is the ideal time to take stock, to discuss, in a good way, with your superior, to listen to them as well. Salary, training, mobility... all these points deserve to be considered at least once a year. Not all companies take it as seriously. In some, you even have to insist to get it. Don't miss this opportunity.
Prepare your questions/answers
Some companies send the manager and the employee a preparation form for the interview (see below). You can use the items by adapting them to your function and the performance criteria of your company.
Three tips for a successful individual interview
1/ If the meeting is not scheduled in advance by the company, take the initiative. Observe it, you will quickly know the day, time, and period when your boss will be more available.
2/ Prepare the interview all year round. Your boss shouldn't discover everything about you during this one meeting. "By regularly reporting on your activities and results for the missions you have carried out (explaining each time, even briefly, the successes and failures), you validate your job. This technique is particularly advisable when your boss tends to delegate a lot and does not worry about the means you have had to implement to achieve a result." explains Florence Chagneau, consultant.
3/ If you have to negotiate your salary, always ask yourself the question from your boss's point of view. Why should I pay more, today, the person in front of me? And answer yourself: because I am better than yesterday. Give yourself a little pat on the back before going to see your boss! However, don't tell him, for example: "because I am indispensable." You might hear him answer: "Then we will remove you from this position, we'll see."
Florence Chagneau and Dominique Perez *
* authors of the guide "Negotiating well with your employer", L'Express editions, 2003.
Pourseformer.fr
Posted online June 10, 2013.
What is the annual review?
It is the ideal time to take stock, to discuss, in a good way, with your superior, to listen to them as well. Salary, training, mobility... all these points deserve to be considered at least once a year. Not all companies take it as seriously. In some, you even have to insist to get it. Don't miss this opportunity.
Prepare your questions/answers
Some companies send the manager and the employee a preparation form for the interview (see below). You can use the items by adapting them to your function and the performance criteria of your company.
Three tips for a successful individual interview
1/ If the meeting is not scheduled in advance by the company, take the initiative. Observe it, you will quickly know the day, time, and period when your boss will be more available.
2/ Prepare the interview all year round. Your boss shouldn't discover everything about you during this one meeting. "By regularly reporting on your activities and results for the missions you have carried out (explaining each time, even briefly, the successes and failures), you validate your job. This technique is particularly advisable when your boss tends to delegate a lot and does not worry about the means you have had to implement to achieve a result." explains Florence Chagneau, consultant.
3/ If you have to negotiate your salary, always ask yourself the question from your boss's point of view. Why should I pay more, today, the person in front of me? And answer yourself: because I am better than yesterday. Give yourself a little pat on the back before going to see your boss! However, don't tell him, for example: "because I am indispensable." You might hear him answer: "Then we will remove you from this position, we'll see."
Florence Chagneau and Dominique Perez *
* authors of the guide "Negotiating well with your employer", L'Express editions, 2003.
Pourseformer.fr
Posted online June 10, 2013.
