Use this sample and step by step explanation to craft a meaningful 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

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 delivers talks or speeches before doing thorough research on the topic.

Speaks too much and does not give room to others to talk or share their thoughts.

1

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.

Speaks with good clarity and uses correct language to address the other person.

Mirrors back some of the words spoken by the other person and shows a good attention skill.

2

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.

Reacts with extreme emotion such as crying which stimulates the other person to do more of the difficult behavior

Takes the reactions of a difficult person personally and allows oneself to become emotionally charged in reaction to him/her

1

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.

Has little persistence in working with others to meet goals

Takes the management very lightly and does not respect others

1

HANDLING STRESS: Handling Stress is the skill to balance the requirements of the job and your abilities or available resources in performing it.

Gets started on major projects as early as possible, anticipates situations that may affect these projects and works to prevent them

Makes sure to have one or two colleagues who are willing to assist in the time of stress in order to reduce one's stress level

2

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.

Agrees on high standards and quality on the outset, when working with a client or other employees

Monitors the progress of assignments against the agreed standards of work and/or milestones

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.

Shows up late for meetings, rarely prepares for meetings, and misses most meetings

Remains seated when being introduced to new people and when shaking hands

1

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.

Lacks enough understanding about the current market trends and does not make enough efforts to improve

Rarely bothers to know what customers want and ends up losing existing customers and prospects

1

CUSTOMER SERVICE: Customer Service is the ability to cater for the needs of the client by providing excellent customer service without compromise.

Receives multiple customer complaints about failing to follow up on their inquiries as promised

Gives inaccurate solutions when faced with difficult questions and does not bother to ask for assistance

1

TECHNOLOGY TREND AWARENESS: Technology Trend Awareness is staying updated with the useful upcoming trends that can serve your business better and easier.

Hardly asks for assistance when faced with issues related to new technologies

Hardly advocates for the implementation of modern technologies that assist in sharing and storing data efficiently such as cloud storage

1

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 prepare yourself before you talk to people and has it been of help to you?

[employee comments]
PHONE SKILLS:

How do you handle irate and upset callers during a phone conversation?

Do you typically take charge of the phone calls you make and how do you ensure to have everything under control?

[employee comments]
DEALING WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE:

Is there a time when you have had to deal with a difficult person at work? What was the problem? How did you go about it?

When you work with a group of people, disagreements are common. Can you describe a time when you handled a disagreement in your workgroup? How was it solved?

[employee comments]
POTENTIAL FOR ADVANCEMENT:

Are you willing to change tactics and part of the winning team?

Do you pay careful attention to coaching and implement it in your work?

[employee comments]
HANDLING STRESS:

Can you describe a situation at work that really stressed you out to the maximum? How did you handle it?

Describe a time when your project was faced with a situation that was not anticipated. How did you handle it?

[employee comments]
QUALITY MANAGEMENT:

Describe a specific time when you have had to deal with a team member who constantly produced substandard work. How did you go about it?

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:

Are you making any efforts to build and nurture relationships and do you create time to meet people?

What steps do you take to ensure a conversation runs smoothly even when disagreeing with what others are saying?

[employee comments]
BUSINESS TREND AWARENESS:

What efforts are you making to increase your understanding about current business trends?

Can you think of a new trend that caught you unawares and how did you respond?

[employee comments]
CUSTOMER SERVICE:

Were there any times you came across customers with special needs? How did you assist them?

Can you think of a time where you felt you had not responded well? How did you correct the situation?

[employee comments]
TECHNOLOGY TREND AWARENESS:

Can you describe a situation where you successfully utilized the power of virtual workplaces to save time and money?

How often do you encourage colleagues to use of artificial intelligence to execute repetitive, multiple, and complex tasks more efficiently?

[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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