The Joyful Annual Career Assessment Workbook
A step-by-step guide to
• Getting a clear picture of your professional accomplishments this year.
• Telling your career story in a compeling way.
• Preparing to discuss your career aspirations with your manager.
On this workbook you’ll find all you need to leapfrog your career to the next level:
• Real-life stories of career challenges and how to overcome them.
• Templates to craft your self-assessment.
• Examples of how to write a persuasive review of your objectives.
• Scripts you can use to discuss your career plans with your manager that you can modify.
Table of Contents
- Preface – My story
- Why should you care about your self-assessment?
- Women face additional challenges
- How to prepare to write your self-assessment
- Why being in the right mindset is important to write a powerful self-assessment
- Ways to trick your nervous system into a more relaxed state
- Information you will need prior to start writing your self-assessment
- Self-assessment structure
- Assessment of your annual objectives
- When you don’t have SMART objectives
- Your career pitch
- Summary of accomplishments
- Career aspirations
- The assessment discussion
- What if you want to transition to another department, role, or company?
- Final words
- Appendix A: Objective grid
- Appendix B: Annual review preparation grid
- Appendix C: Patricia Gestoso biography
Dr Patricia Gestoso is a certified coach, and an award-winning inclusion strategist and a technologist with 20+ years of experience in digital transformation.
In 2023, she helped 50+ women and people from underrepresented groups to get the professional success they deserved.
Will you be next?
Testimonial
“ I wish I had learned this in my 20s- my career path would have been different, and I would have known the invisible rules, so that I could advance in the way I wanted to!”
Director Business Development
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