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Jenda, you give so much more than you receive! You need to learn the gentle art of self-promotion. It has nothing to do with Perl, it is about who you are and who you want to be.

It is okay to ask for things. Keep asking, and you shall receive. There is a balance here. What have you done for us? What do you want? If you take the trouble to write these things down, you can have a much better result.

I use a computer to do most of my work. It is easy for me to list my objectives and accomplishments. I just search my whole hard drive for all the files that I created in the last year. I look at the file names and remember my projects. I write up a one sentence description of the problem that I solved for each little group of files. If the description is more than about two weeks worth of work, then I need to break it down into smaller pieces. I like to have about twenty or thirty accomplishments per year.

It feels very good to write down twenty accomplishments! It should really not be a burden, this is your chance to show off a bit.

Next you have the hard part, which is to say what you want. Of course almost everyone wants more money. This may not be a good place to ask for more. Or maybe it is good, I can't tell from here. If your pay is not bad, then this is the place where you are supposed to ask for other things. For example, you might ask to attend a conference, or buy more books, or get an assistant, or teach a class, or whatever you really think you need. Except you are not allowed to ask to not have to fill out this type of form :-).

People used to ask me, "Why do you get to work on such cool things?" My answer was, "In my development plan I am supposed to spend 10% of my time researching new technologies." The percentage changed over time. Sometimes it was as high as 30% while I still had project responsibilities. One time it was 0%, but this was because the other team members had overly-optimistic schedules that made it appear that I was on the critical path :-).

Then there is the problem of the funny words used by managers. These words tend to come from a book. The explanations of these words can often be found in a book or a loose-leaf binder that is sitting on your manager's desk. The importance of these binders is described in an important work of fiction called Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.

Get a copy of the binder or book and read it to see what they are looking for. Use your imagination and write about how your work will help them accomplish what is in the book. From the words in your post, I have a wild guess. Your company is competing in a crowded market. This means that you need to provide predictable, incremental improvements, not a revolution. These incremental improvements can really add up. When you do a two week project, does it justify your salary for the whole year? If you can list twenty such projects in the last year, that is a true JAPH.

When you have more experience and learn to play this game well, you can promise a revolution when it is necessary. By then you will know how to deliver it!

It should work perfectly the first time! - toma

In reply to Re: Annual Self Appraisal forms and all this (censored) by toma
in thread Annual Self Appraisal forms and all this (censored) by Jenda

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