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A Central Office Operator is liable for operating telephone switchboard to facilitate lines of communication both local and long-distance calls.
Primary responsibilities for this post include connecting customers while making incoming calls to proper person, operating the switchboard and helping customers establish local and long distance calls, observing signal light on switchboard, plug cords into trunk jack and press the button to make connections, inserting tickets in time stamping services device to be imprinted with accurate time, recording time of calls, requesting coin depositors for calls if necessary, giving out subscribers telephone numbers, calculating rates, handling special billing requests, making long distance connections, dealing with emergency calls, keeping the directory updated.
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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| 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. | Makes telephone calls in a very noisy and distracted environment. Does not call back or do follow up on issues hence leaving issues unresolved. | 1 |
| SAFETY AT WORK: Safety is being protected from hurt or other non-desirable outcomes that may tend to overrule a situation and cause damages of different kinds. | Requires all employees to wear protective gear necessary to do their jobs safely in order to prevent exposure to hazardous materials Keeps employees informed about injury and illness statistics, safety inspections, and other safety-related issues | 2 |
| APPRAISAL AND EVALUATION SKILLS: Appraisal and Evaluation Skills are services that allow employers to assess their employees? contributions to the organization for the period they have been working with them. | Occasionally fails to adhere to set guidelines while evaluating other Lacks clarity and promptness in communication that affects other areas as well | 1 |
| ADAPTABILITY: Adaptability is the ability to cope with and adapt to unexpected situations in any environment and staying connected with a great attitude. | Gets overwhelmed when multi-tasking. Feels overloaded when juggling several tasks or when under pressure Adapts well to small changes, but struggles when there is a larger issue that affects the whole office or department | 1 |
| COMPETITIVENESS: Competitiveness is the skill of being able to compete as a team or a company with other enterprises in the same line of entrepreneurship and emerging as the winner. | Attends regular networking events in the community in order to develop real, authentic connections with other business professionals Builds an "I can do better" mentality and always works hard to proof that fact | 2 |
| HANDLING STRESS: Handling Stress is the skill to balance the requirements of the job and your abilities or available resources in performing it. | Accepts help from trusted friends and family members in order to improve one's ability to manage stress Tries to do something right for the first time in order to save oneself a headache later when one has to redo the work | 2 |
| RESULTS ORIENTATION: Results Orientation is knowing and focusing on outstanding results and working hard to achieve them because they are significant. | Sets goals that are either too difficult or too easy to accomplish or does not set goals at all Constantly needs the management's input in regards to the end goals of the projects one is assigned or their results | 1 |
| SELF-DISCIPLINE AND SENSE OF DUTY: Self-Discipline and Sense of Duty is an active effort which helps in developing set ways for your thoughts, actions, and habits empowering your to stick to your decisions. | Uses own position and power at work to disrespect and mistreat other employees Disregards the company's policy thus brings potential harm to the company, customers, and other employees | 1 |
| DIVERSITY AWARENESS: Diversity Awareness is the understanding that people are different and unique in their particular way and respecting their uniqueness. | Hardly bothers to assess whether the current procedures, practices, and policies are diverse Possesses little understanding of the perspectives of others and does not bother to make improvements | 1 |
| SCHEDULING: Scheduling is creating daily workflow charts that the employees are supposed to follow when working and submitting their projects. | Spends most of the available time engaging in activities and thoughts that do not produce results Shows unwillingness to work steadily towards both career and personal goals | 1 |
Self Evaluation | |
Self Evaluation Question | Employee Comments |
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| PHONE SKILLS: How do you handle irate and upset callers during a phone conversation? Do you usually call back when you promise to do so and have you ever failed to so at any given point? | [employee comments] |
| SAFETY AT WORK: What are some of the things you have done to improve your safety, that of other employees as well as that of the company? Is there a time when you have had to deal with an employee who repeatedly ignored the company's safety instructions? What did you do? | [employee comments] |
| APPRAISAL AND EVALUATION SKILLS: Can you be relied upon to deliver accurate and timely data? Do you treat the employees the same even the weak ones? | [employee comments] |
| ADAPTABILITY: Do you prefer an environment with a structured routine or one with new experiences? Is there a time you had to adjust to a colleague's working style or technique in order to meet a deadline or achieve an objective? | [employee comments] |
| COMPETITIVENESS: What are some of the things you have done to help co-workers improve their professional competitive skills? What have you done to increase your knowledge and understanding about competitiveness in the workplace? | [employee comments] |
| HANDLING STRESS: Can you describe a situation at work that really stressed you out to the maximum? How did you handle it? What ways do you use to identify your stress triggers? What do you do to make sure that the same stressful situation does not reappear? | [employee comments] |
| RESULTS ORIENTATION: What are some of the most common things that prevent people from achieving results from their goals? What do you think they should do differently? Describe a project/goal that required you to pay attention to detail. How did you go about accomplishing it? | [employee comments] |
| SELF-DISCIPLINE AND SENSE OF DUTY: What are some of the things that you have done to help nourish your self-discipline? How has this helped you in developing a sense of duty? Describe a time when you have been able to juggle multiple important projects due to your ability to remain self-disciplined. What challenges did you face and how did you overcome them? | [employee comments] |
| DIVERSITY AWARENESS: What efforts are you making to promote professional development courses and forums that enhance diversity? Have you ever made a joke that offended the beliefs of someone else and how did you rectify the situation? | [employee comments] |
| SCHEDULING: Have you ever failed to add contingency time when scheduling and how did you correct the mistake? How often do you encourage others to work steadily towards both career and personal goals? | [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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