MY APPRAISAL
6 months have passed since I started on my first job as a social worker and I finally had my appraisal for confirmation today! It was supposed to be a 2-hour thingy where my supervisor will sit down with me and go through my work performance appraisal form category by category, item by item and evaluate areas which I can further develop or improve in. This form was already filled in by me, where I scored my own performance against a score chart and listed down comments/examples to illustrate the competencies and level of job knowledge I perceived myself to have achieved. My sup was then supposed to score the same items against the chart and add in his comments too in my presence.
However, to my surprise, he just asked me to pass the appraisal form to him and said he will evaluate it on his own at his desk. Within 20 minutes, he passed the form back to me. When I flipped through the pages and looked inside, all the scores he gave indicated that I had met the expectations required of my work performance and competency. Also, the comments he gave/added were very encouraging and positive. Even for those areas which I felt I needed to buck up on, he emphasized on my strengths and commented that I can learn to be better in those areas which have room for improvement. I almost couldn’t believe my eyes but I know that it is God who has brought me to where I am today, and it is God who has poured out His favour on me and given me favour with my supervisor.
In the beginning phase of working life, I soon became highly stressed out because of the expectations my supervisor had of me and because of the demands I needed to meet at work everyday. There were times I would come home after work and cry because of the pressures I faced. This is natural I guess because it’s a transition period for me from study life to working life. Yet there were also times I felt very discouraged because I made mistakes at work and made the same mistakes more than once. My supervisor’s style of working was also such that he would be very frank and direct and come up to me to tell me what I shouldn’t have done and what were the things I did not do but should have done.
Yet, though he is firm with me, I know he cares enough about me to correct me so that I will learn from my mistakes and be better the next time. He is a very good supervisor and cares very deeply for the welfare of all the staff under him. He is very flexible too in allowing us to take time-offs and there was once he gave me a day off to rest even when I wasn’t able to take leave yet then. I thank God for placing such a good supervisor like Kumar over my life, and I know God has used him to sharpen me and mould me over the past 6 months. Though he has tendered his resignation (his official last day being next Friday), my colleagues and I will remember him dearly always. He has requested for us NOT to organise any farewell party for him, but said he will invite us all over to his house to keep the bonds and friendship going. So we’ll leave it as that.
Last but not least, I thank God again for His goodness, His grace & His mercy to me all this while. God is a good God all the time. :)
6 months have passed since I started on my first job as a social worker and I finally had my appraisal for confirmation today! It was supposed to be a 2-hour thingy where my supervisor will sit down with me and go through my work performance appraisal form category by category, item by item and evaluate areas which I can further develop or improve in. This form was already filled in by me, where I scored my own performance against a score chart and listed down comments/examples to illustrate the competencies and level of job knowledge I perceived myself to have achieved. My sup was then supposed to score the same items against the chart and add in his comments too in my presence.
However, to my surprise, he just asked me to pass the appraisal form to him and said he will evaluate it on his own at his desk. Within 20 minutes, he passed the form back to me. When I flipped through the pages and looked inside, all the scores he gave indicated that I had met the expectations required of my work performance and competency. Also, the comments he gave/added were very encouraging and positive. Even for those areas which I felt I needed to buck up on, he emphasized on my strengths and commented that I can learn to be better in those areas which have room for improvement. I almost couldn’t believe my eyes but I know that it is God who has brought me to where I am today, and it is God who has poured out His favour on me and given me favour with my supervisor.
In the beginning phase of working life, I soon became highly stressed out because of the expectations my supervisor had of me and because of the demands I needed to meet at work everyday. There were times I would come home after work and cry because of the pressures I faced. This is natural I guess because it’s a transition period for me from study life to working life. Yet there were also times I felt very discouraged because I made mistakes at work and made the same mistakes more than once. My supervisor’s style of working was also such that he would be very frank and direct and come up to me to tell me what I shouldn’t have done and what were the things I did not do but should have done.
Yet, though he is firm with me, I know he cares enough about me to correct me so that I will learn from my mistakes and be better the next time. He is a very good supervisor and cares very deeply for the welfare of all the staff under him. He is very flexible too in allowing us to take time-offs and there was once he gave me a day off to rest even when I wasn’t able to take leave yet then. I thank God for placing such a good supervisor like Kumar over my life, and I know God has used him to sharpen me and mould me over the past 6 months. Though he has tendered his resignation (his official last day being next Friday), my colleagues and I will remember him dearly always. He has requested for us NOT to organise any farewell party for him, but said he will invite us all over to his house to keep the bonds and friendship going. So we’ll leave it as that.
Last but not least, I thank God again for His goodness, His grace & His mercy to me all this while. God is a good God all the time. :)
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