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While I've been watching the interesting threads about
interviews, my manager handed me a questionnaire to
fill out prior to my annual review. Frankly, I'm much
more comfortable in initial job interviews than I am
in performance reviews. Call it an eccentric quirk if
you like, but I find it easier to describe my goals,
strengths, weaknesses, etc. when I'm applying for a
job than I do after I've been working in a position
for a time.
I know it's no fun for managers either, but I still
haven't mastered the art of being on the employee side
of the fence. The worst part for me is this cursed
questionnaire that I have to fill out before the
sit-down interview. It's only about a half-dozen
fairly standard questions, but I hate having to rate
work, my future goals, etc. right off the bat. The
first thing to comes to mind is a rule I learned years
ago about bargaining; that the first person to name a
price is the one most likely to lose the negotiations,
because that price becomes the starting point for the
other party to begin their bargaining. Rating myself
on paper before the interview makes me feel like the
deck is stacked.
How do other folks handle this? Or am I the only one
here with this particular paranoia?
Dave
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