Use this step by step explanation to craft a good employee performance feedback review for an information security auditor. Find the right words with quality phrases.
An Information Security Auditor is responsible for safeguarding the information systems assets by identifying and solving potential and actual security problems. This position also ensures that the audited systems remain secure in the company.
Essential duties for this position include protecting the systems by defining access privileges, control structures, and resources, recognizing problems through identifying abnormalities and reporting violations, implementing security improvements by assessing current situation, evaluating trends, anticipating requirements, determining safety violations and inefficiencies by conducting periodic audits, upgrading system by implementing and maintaining security controls, maintaining quality service by following organization standards, keeping users informed by preparing performance reports, maintains a technical knowledge by attending educational workshops.
Employee Performance Review Sample | |
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| Employee's Name: | Title: |
| Review Period: __/__/__ to __/__/__ | Employee SSN: |
| Work Location: | Supervisor's Name: |
Instructions |
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Rating Meaning | |
| The employee fails to perform the most important aspects of the job satisfactorily. Requires close guidance to carry out routine jobs. He/she needs significant improvement in all areas. Meetings should be held between the employee and the supervisor to discuss performance deficiencies. | 1 |
| Employee routinely meets and exceeds expectations in all areas of responsibility. Produces high-quality work that at times exceeds expectations. Consistently meets the most critical annual goals. Occasionally produces timely and accurate results. | 2 |
| The employee consistently and significantly exceeds the communicated expectations by producing exceptionally high-quality work. He/she demonstrates exceptional knowledge of his/her duties and is highly recognized by others as an authority in his/her area of work. | 3 |
Supervisor's Feedback | ||
Skill | Comments | Rating |
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| VERBAL COMMUNICATION: Verbal Communication is the use of tones and language to relay a message; it aids as a vehicle for expressing ideas, concepts and it, is critical to the daily running of the business. | Seeks for clarifications on issues that are not well understood Speaks with humility and genuine respect for other people and is considered with high regard. | 3 |
| PHONE SKILLS: Phone Skills are useful to present a professional company image through the telephone to the customers while making them feel well informed and appreciated without necessarily seeing their faces. | Always answers telephone calls with a positive, inviting, and enthusiastic tone. Gives the other person on the line time to ask before responding accordingly. | 3 |
| DEALING WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE: Dealing with Difficult People is learning how to tactfully calm down an obnoxious person who is either verbally attacking you or stealthily criticizing you or your professional contribution. | States own needs clearly and assertively without giving the other person the opportunity to twist or manipulate one's words Increases own frustration tolerance by challenging irrational beliefs that may make one to become angry, stressed or lose one's cool | 3 |
| POTENTIAL FOR ADVANCEMENT: The potential for Advancement is the ability to make something better by being more skillful, more efficient, and more useful to produce high-quality results. | Carries a strong personal orientation that is inspired by real example in the workplace Devotes significant efforts in reaching the company goals set and within the set deadlines | 3 |
| HANDLING STRESS: Handling Stress is the skill to balance the requirements of the job and your abilities or available resources in performing it. | Tracks one's stressors by keeping a journal to identify which situations create the most stress and how to respond to them Avoids toxic co-workers; stays as away as possible from colleagues who gossip or those that bring negative energy | 3 |
| QUALITY MANAGEMENT: Quality Management is the management approach to the long-term success through customer satisfaction that directly involves the employees in the continual improvement of the daily tasks. | Develops procedures and systems to manage information and data effectively and shares these with other employees Uses a range of project management tools and techniques to keep projects and their activities on track | 2 |
| BUSINESS ETIQUETTE: Business Etiquette is a basic framework of rules set by companies to ensure and allow you to understand the way you should conduct yourself in the professional world. | Employs active listening techniques, makes good eye contacts, and pays special attention to speakers Sends a special thank-you note to everyone, responds to all messages, and calls back immediately | 3 |
| BUSINESS TREND AWARENESS: Business Trend Awareness is the capacity to be conscious of the changing ways in which the companies are developing in the marketplace. | Commended for having deep understanding of the current market trends Makes exceptional strategic decisions, capitalizes on good opportunities, and overcomes any fierce competition | 3 |
| CUSTOMER SERVICE: Customer Service is the ability to cater for the needs of the client by providing excellent customer service without compromise. | Possesses a loyal customer base and is viewed as the person to go to by returning customers Provides feedback as soon as a customer makes an inquiry | 3 |
| TECHNOLOGY TREND AWARENESS: Technology Trend Awareness is staying updated with the useful upcoming trends that can serve your business better and easier. | Leads in making contributions in online tech communities that consist of technology savvy individuals sharing technology ideas Embraces artificial intelligence to execute repetitive, multiple, and complex tasks efficiently | 3 |
Self Evaluation | |
Self Evaluation Question | Employee Comments |
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| VERBAL COMMUNICATION: Who is the greatest orator that you admire and why do you admire them? How do you aim to improve your verbal communication skills to be the best in it? | [employee comments] |
| PHONE SKILLS: How well can you rate the way you handle your phone call conversations? Give an instance you had to talk to someone on the phone while in a loud place? How well did the conversation go? | [employee comments] |
| DEALING WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE: Describe a time when you had to disagree with a new rule in the company? How did you present your argument? How do you differentiate between a person who is deliberately difficult from one who is difficult due to some stress he/she is going through? | [employee comments] |
| POTENTIAL FOR ADVANCEMENT: Do you ask for coaching or training when you need it or do you delay until it is forced on you? What measures are you meaning to use to become better in executing your duties? | [employee comments] |
| HANDLING STRESS: Give an example of a time when you have worked with a team that was facing a very stressful situation. How did you help the team members handle the situation? Describe a time when your project was faced with a situation that was not anticipated. How did you handle it? | [employee comments] |
| QUALITY MANAGEMENT: How have you made sure to deliver quality work even when working under pressure? What motivates you to produce quality work constantly? Describe a time when you have been rewarded for consistently producing quality work. | [employee comments] |
| BUSINESS ETIQUETTE: How often do you encourage others to stand up when shaking hands or meeting new people? Do you make introductions in meetings and do you introduce people according to their ranks? | [employee comments] |
| BUSINESS TREND AWARENESS: What efforts are you making to increase your accuracy in predicting future business trends? Do you encourage your colleagues to attend conferences and local events that provide networking opportunities with other professionals? | [employee comments] |
| CUSTOMER SERVICE: Is there a time when you were asked a question and you were unable to answer? Did you seek assistance? What efforts are you making to redefine customer service processes to meet the ever-changing needs of customers? | [employee comments] |
| TECHNOLOGY TREND AWARENESS: How often do you encourage colleagues to use the internet to search for information easily? How often do you encourage colleagues to use of artificial intelligence to execute repetitive, multiple, and complex tasks more efficiently? | [employee comments] |
Summary |
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Sections 1-4: To be completed by the supervisor Section 5: To be completed by the employee |
1. Exceeds Job Related Expectations |
2. Areas to improve |
3. Goals completed since last performance feedback |
4. Goals for next period |
5. Employee comments |
Signatures | |
| I acknowledge that I discussed this performance feedback with my supervisor. My signature does not mean that I agree or disagree with this appraisal. | |
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| Supervisor: | Date: |
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