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Year-end performance review time; how hard do you sell yourself for that raise?

yllus

yllus

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I'll be lobbying for a pretty good improvement in compensation this year; I think I do deserve it (though who ever thinks otherwise). How are you guys playing it this year?
 
Wait, are you trying to tell me some folks get raises other than cost of living or finding a new job? What kind of fantabulous hocus pocus is this. Inconceivable! Ah, you live in Canuckistan. It all begins to make sense.
 
Kick ass entire year. Collect raise, bonus, and hopefully promotion. Leave no doubt when the time comes.

Selling myself during review not necessary.
 
If I feel the need to sell myself in my review, it's already too late. That's how it is around here anyway.

KT
 
I have a system that has worked out pretty well over the years. At the start of the year they tell you what the key things are you need to do, and possibly some improvement areas also. Once a month I update a document I keep that tracks my progress on those things as well as any new initiatives. I figure out how to come up with metrics if at all possible so there is no guesswork involved.

When review time comes I pull up the document and summarize the things I did, report the metrics, point out new initiatives, etc. I arrange it in the format that matches the performance review form, by section. I also make a point to include deficiencies where things didn't go as hoped. Then I give it to my boss about a month before they have to submit the review forms.

I've had six different bosses since I started that system, and all six essentially plagiarized my document at a 80-90% level to create "their" review of my work.

Results:
75% of the time rated exceeds expectations
10% rated outstanding
15% rated meets expectations

Takes about one hour a month.

Current pay is 160% of the max for my position. Not a typo.

Make it easy for your boss to prepare the review, you will be rewarded if you have simply done the things they said at the start of the year you should be doing and on top of that you show some initiative of your own, and aren't afraid to document your own shortcomings.

By the time the year is over, both you and your boss have forgotten many of the good things you did and the boss must review you in generalities rather than specifics. That doesn't help you stand out from the crowd.

There's only so much funding for raises to go around. You need to give your boss a reason to give you more than the average.
 
brianmanahan said:
you still make like 5x what most everyone here makes, so qq
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He had to buy a BMW M5 instead of the M6. It's been a lean year.

My duties expanded significantly and I'm owed a raise by year end. Though they haven't told me exactly when or how much. They like to drag their heels on things around here.
 
mmntech said:
My duties expanded significantly and I'm owed a raise by year end. Though they haven't told me exactly when or how much. They like to drag their heels on things around here.
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So, have you already been performing these duties and not been getting additional compensation for it? :|
 
KlokWyze said:
So, have you already been performing these duties and not been getting additional compensation for it? :|
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brianmanahan said:
lol, this has happened to me for a few years now
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Welcome to America. 'But, the economy's doing much better now!" No shit, guess who's footing the bill? "You should be happy just to have a job!" The biggest lie since trickle down economics.

All of my reviews make me look like the best thing since sliced bread. I haven't seen a raise in 4 years.
 
Most people I've met throughout the years of jobs that I cycle through are just unable or unwilling to do anything about jobs that underpay or overwork them. They'll complain. They'll bitch. They'll moan, but they wouldn't think to just demand more pay or walk.
 
We have reviews every year. The first few years I really made an effort to impress, but now I don't give a shit. There's no logic behind who gets pay increases. I honestly think they just randomly choose people.

Now I sit at work and do the minimum. Where's the incentive? I'm hired to manage IT systems for a specific department but sometimes I get given jobs outside of the dept, but I just sit on them for days and days. No incentive for me to do them since I don't get any extra money to do so. No one ever says "Why, gee, thanks for doing that hundreds of hours of extra additional work that you aren't contracted to do, here's a bonus". So they get assigned to me and I pretty much do the absolute minimum.
 
kranky said:
I have a system that has worked out pretty well over the years. At the start of the year they tell you what the key things are you need to do, and possibly some improvement areas also. Once a month I update a document I keep that tracks my progress on those things as well as any new initiatives. I figure out how to come up with metrics if at all possible so there is no guesswork involved.

When review time comes I pull up the document and summarize the things I did, report the metrics, point out new initiatives, etc. I arrange it in the format that matches the performance review form, by section. I also make a point to include deficiencies where things didn't go as hoped. Then I give it to my boss about a month before they have to submit the review forms.

I've had six different bosses since I started that system, and all six essentially plagiarized my document at a 80-90% level to create "their" review of my work.

Results:
75% of the time rated exceeds expectations
10% rated outstanding
15% rated meets expectations

Takes about one hour a month.

Current pay is 160% of the max for my position. Not a typo.

Make it easy for your boss to prepare the review, you will be rewarded if you have simply done the things they said at the start of the year you should be doing and on top of that you show some initiative of your own, and aren't afraid to document your own shortcomings.

By the time the year is over, both you and your boss have forgotten many of the good things you did and the boss must review you in generalities rather than specifics. That doesn't help you stand out from the crowd.

There's only so much funding for raises to go around. You need to give your boss a reason to give you more than the average.
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I am totally ripping this. Hope you don't mind (I assume you don't since you posted this)
 
StinkyPinky said:
We have reviews every year. The first few years I really made an effort to impress, but now I don't give a shit. There's no logic behind who gets pay increases. I honestly think they just randomly choose people.

Now I sit at work and do the minimum. Where's the incentive? I'm hired to manage IT systems for a specific department but sometimes I get given jobs outside of the dept, but I just sit on them for days and days. No incentive for me to do them since I don't get any extra money to do so. No one ever says "Why, gee, thanks for doing that hundreds of hours of extra additional work that you aren't contracted to do, here's a bonus". So they get assigned to me and I pretty much do the absolute minimum.
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Damn, what a go-getter.
 
Ns1 said:
Damn, what a go-getter.
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Where I work, so long as you meet the bare minimum expectations you get a flat raise. Doesn't matter if you kick ass all day every day, or just simply skate along and looking busy enough to not get fired. You get the same 2.5% as everyone else.
 
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