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

Speaks disrespectfully and arrogantly while in a conversation with others.

Responds to questions in a not so creative and intelligent manner and hence does not offer satisfactory answers.

1

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.

Listens to feedback from critics and tries to implement the review given.

Seeks the guidance of a mentor on how to develop the various writing skill sets.

2

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

Does tasks and assignments while in a busy and chaotic environment.

Always compromises on quality by not following the required standard procedures.

1

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.

Takes the project back when one is not satisfied with the progress instead of working with the employee to make sure that he/she understands the project to be his/her responsibility

Is not clear about the vision, outcome, and timeline of the project; expects people to read one's mind on the same

1

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.

Communicates effectively and promptly about the plans adjustment or change

Carefully monitors plans and progress of the everyday schedule to see if it needs improvement of change

2

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.

Comes up with a system that squeezes the most productivity out of each day and sticks to it

Takes on extra projects and often seeks advice from other colleagues in areas that need clarification when handling the projects

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.

Yells at colleagues when they give constructive criticism about one's job performance

Is disinterested in working on one's weak areas and is always obsessed with them

1

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

Perceives working together with one's superiors during performance discussions as a waste of time and does not seem to care about how own targets are derived from the company's objectives

Does not know how to group related information into patterns to recognize trends thus, does not identify missing pieces of information easily

1

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.

Often focuses on the small mistakes at work and misses out on the most important things that one needs to do

Performs complex tasks later in the day when own mind feels bogged down thus ends up not completing them or submitting poor work

1

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.

Lags behind in identifying a problem and is often unable to come up with an effective solution to a problem

Does not show willingness to learn how to use critical thinking skills when evaluating information

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?

Have you ever tried to copy somebody else's way of talking and how did it turn out?

[employee comments]
WRITING SKILLS:

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

How many languages can you comfortably use in your writing?

[employee comments]
ACCURACY:

Which environment do you work comfortably well, noisy or quiet environment?

How much time do you dedicate to ensure you deliver an error free task?

[employee comments]
DELEGATION:

Is there a time when you have made a terrible mistake due to poor delegation skills? What happened and how was it resolved?

Would you train a new employee to perform a certain task for you or would you prefer an employee who already has the required skills to handle the task? Why?

[employee comments]
PLANNING AND SCHEDULING:

Do your planning skills need improvement or are they ready to go?

Are you well versed with the IT systems for planning and scheduling?

[employee comments]
ENTHUSIASM:

Think of a time you had an idea and you got other employees to follow you. What was the idea?

Is there a time when a task had to be completed, and you were able to focus your efforts and attention to get it done?

[employee comments]
SELF CONFIDENCE:

Is there someone who has contributed to your self-confidence? What did that person do to build up your feeling of self-worth?

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 the most complex task you have ever accomplished. What information did you use when handling this task?

Describe a time when you needed to develop and use a complex procedure in order to complete a task. What obstacles did you encounter when handling the task?

[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?

Do you prefer phone or email conversations when communicating with a colleague at work? Explain your answer

[employee comments]
ANALYTICAL SKILLS:

Can you think of a small problem you ever identified and solved before it could turn into a big problem?

How often do you encourage others to think outside the box when trying to solve a problem?

[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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