Use this step by step explanation to craft a good employee performance feedback review for a marketing copywriter. Find the right words with quality phrases.

A Marketing Copywriter has the main role of preparing a persuasive, engaging and creative copy for use in media outlets such as radio, print, or television to urge readers to purchase a product or service. He/she discusses the marketing plan with the client and the medium the client intends to use to present the product.

Other duties include liaising with multimedia professional to determine the sound and visuals to use with the copy, liaising with art director to determine the style and the length of the ad copy, editing the copy to ensure it meets the needs of the client, keeping in touch with the client as well as doing internet research.

Employee Performance Review Sample

Employee's Name: Title:
Review Period: __/__/__ to __/__/__ Employee SSN:
Work Location: Supervisor's Name:

Instructions

  1. Rating: Rate the employee against the core skills based on how well he/she demonstrates each skill. Give scores 1, 2, or 3 for each rating depending on the employee's performance.
  2. Comments: Use this area to give examples of employee's performance phrases. The phrases should describe how well an employee has performed on previously set goals based on the given core skill.
  3. Summary: Use this section to give a summary of the employee's strengths and areas for improvement or development. Recommend a step increase for an employee who has met the expectations and performance improvement plans for one who doesn't meet expectations.
  4. Human Resources Review: Human resources manager must examine and indicate whether he/she concurs with the evaluation and comments. If the manager agrees, then he/she must sign the evaluation form. If he/she doesn't concur, then he/she must provide reasons explaining why this is so.
  5. Signatures: Sign the evaluation form and give it to the employee to go through and answer the Self Evaluation Questions. Ask him/her to sign and date the evaluation form before giving it back to the human resources for filing.

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

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.

Always tries to talk unambiguously and concisely during a conversation.

Always attentive when the other people are putting their points across.

3

WRITING SKILLS: Written Communication involves the interaction that makes use of the written word with precision and logic making it the very common form of business communication.

Knows how to play excellently with mini-stories in a way that captures the readers.

Avoids the usage of overly long sentences while developing content.

3

ACCURACY: Accuracy refers to the closeness of a measured value to a known value or standard that is passed by the governing laws.

Listens actively and keenly to instructions and executes every detail or task required.

Ensures to proofread work at all times before giving it in to avoid mistakes.

3

DELEGATION: Delegation is assigning responsibility or authority to another person a junior or subordinate to carry out specific activities while remaining accountable for the outcome.

Explains the specific goals for each task and how one will know whether or not an employee has accomplished the goal

Takes the time to prepare and develop the discipline to map out exactly what one is asking for

2

PLANNING AND SCHEDULING: Planning and Scheduling are the act of establishing a plan for a set of tasks that needs to be completed and including when they should be done.

Organizes and plans projects and workload to prevent overlaps or gaps in responsibilities

Sets a high standard or expecting that others are inclined to follow

3

ENTHUSIASM: Enthusiasm is an intense enjoyment or a lively interest in a certain thing with a zest and a strong belief that can be felt by those around you.

Shows creativity when collaborating with other employees on their goals

Shows interest in one's own work and offers tips for getting the job done more efficiently to others performing the same task

2

SELF CONFIDENCE: Self Confidence is the ability to know who you are and what you are capable of doing which shows in your behavior, your body language, how you speak, etc.

Always thinks of ways to knock the ball out of the park with each new project or task

Trains oneself in order to avoid feeling ill-equipped and hesitant at work due to lack of proper knowledge

3

CONCEPTUAL THINKING: Conceptual Thinking is the ability to recognize a situation or problem by identifying patterns or connections while addressing the underlying issues.

Thinks beyond the situation at hand and balances multiple perspectives when reaching a conclusion or setting a direction

Recognizes and acts in accordance with the company goals, strategies, and priorities and gives suggestions and ideas on how to handle key issues

3

ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS: Organizational Skills is the ability to make use of time, energy and resources available in the most efficient manner to achieve their goal.

Schedules breaks into own work day in order to keep one feeling motivated and productive

Breaks down big assignments into smaller ones in order to prevent the feeling of overload and the procrastination that comes from taking on too many tasks

3

ANALYTICAL SKILLS: Analytical Skills is the ability to collect and analyze information, solve problems and make decisions according to the policies and regulations of the business.

Leads in identifying a problem and creating a remedy to avoid it recurring or becoming a major problem

Possesses outstanding abilities to understand and analyze numerical data and to make the right conclusions

3

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

VERBAL COMMUNICATION:

Have you ever spoken before first thinking over it and it ended up hurting someone? How was the experience?

How do you respond to feedback and criticism and do you encourage people to give you feedback and citric your speech?

[employee comments]
WRITING SKILLS:

Do you normally counter check your work for grammatical errors before submitting?

How many books have your read so far and what is your preferred genre of writing?

[employee comments]
ACCURACY:

Give an instance you overloaded yourself with work and how you would rate the work you submitted.

How do you do your research and do you use factual data and information while doing any task?

[employee comments]
DELEGATION:

Can you describe a time when you have solved a major company problem due to an effective delegation of tasks?

How do you ensure that the person you assign a task has understood all the instructions?

[employee comments]
PLANNING AND SCHEDULING:

What are those goals that require more skills in planning and decision making?

How have you been of help to others in accomplishing goals within the set time?

[employee comments]
ENTHUSIASM:

Are there times you have not achieved something that you set out to do? How did you feel about that?

Is there a time when you did not think a situation could not get any worse and then it did?

[employee comments]
SELF CONFIDENCE:

Can you describe a time you thought you were going to fail in a task? What did you do to succeed?

Have you had times when others questioned your ability to handle a certain task? How have you handled such situations?

[employee comments]
CONCEPTUAL THINKING:

Describe a problem you were solving where you had to work with a concept that was abstract rather that tangible and concrete. What was the outcome?

Is there a time when you had to analyze information and make a recommendation? How did you go about that?

[employee comments]
ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS:

What are some of the tools that you have used to organize your tasks at work? Would you recommend these tools to other employees?

How do you differentiate tasks that bring you closer to your goals from those that don't add value to your goals? How do you treat both tasks?

[employee comments]
ANALYTICAL SKILLS:

What steps do you follow when studying a problem before making a final conclusion

What efforts are you making to improve your knowledge to work with numbers and figures?

[employee comments]

Summary

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.
Employee: Date:
Supervisor: Date:
Human Resources: Date:
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