Five ways to prepare for the next appraisal:

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1. Keep your Facts Ready:

N ow is the time when a quick search in your mail Inbox would help gather all the mails the bosses wrote in a rare mood of indulgence. Those that are complimentary should be saved in a separate folder for easy access along with few mental notes on how your contribution helped the team during tough times. Updating the Performance Management System can help in case evidence is required, says Sameer Farooqi, manager in a Pune-based manufacturing company.

2. Look Ahead: 

Aditi S, a senior executive in a Bangalore-based media firm, has appraisals every two quarters. "While most worry about their past performance in an appraisal, you should be ready with what you want to do," says Aditi. The review, which lasts for 15-20 minutes , has supervisors talk to her about her career progression and skills that can be improved. 

3. Know the Hierarchy:

Many employees do not know either their organisation's structure or their key performance indicators (KPI). If the employer is systematic in its appraisal process and the KPIs are under control, the employee still has the chance to work hard in the last three months and make up for any slack. This is specially so in case of teams where deals can be struck at the last minute as well, like business development.

4. Keep Questions Ready:

"While keeping facts and numbers ready, one may also like to look at the roadmap assured by the employer in the previous appraisal," says partner at Hyderabad-based executive search firm, Maxima Global International. Instead of a charged-up employee and boss firing volleys of questions at each other, a planned set of queries will help the employee come across as an organised employee who has chalked out a flow chart of how he or she wants his or her career to shape up.

5. Be Consistent: 

In panic, those who believe that a sudden burst of teamwork will bring them to the spotlight, often end up looking shallow. The review of peers and supervisors will reflect how one has been performing in the past few months. A change of attitude would not mean a change of heart for those who are rating.

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Facebook Timeline: 5 Minuses

1. Your life out in the open:

Timeline puts your life out in the open like never before. Unlike the earlier single webpage design where older content - shares, status updates, notes, likes, comments, photos and notes - kept getting buried under labyrinths of time, Timeline's scrapbook interface has now given an excellent tool to people to datamine others' Facebook.

This may not be such a great news for those not keen on sharing each and everything from their life with everyone. So before rushing to publish your Timeline, it is advisable to spend hours and hours reviewing what content you don't want to share, and delete or remove from Timeline. You get a week before Timeline will automatically go live on December 23, even if you decide not to publish.


2. Misses Friends list privacy:

For those who always kept their Friends List private, Timeline is a curse as it prominently displays just how 'popular' you are on Facebook and who all are connected with you. There is no apparent way to turn it off, unlike earlier settings.

This may be a major put-off for those who do not want to share their Friends List with all and sundry for various reasons.


3. Users vulnerable to identity theft:

Facebook Timeline allows users to compile and let others see everything they have shared so far, from photos, stories to shared videos, music etc. It is kind of a scrapbook of your whole life. And this very fact makes it also dangerous.

As any mismanagement of personal information on the site can backfire. As if a user does not protect his personal information online, it will be the best place for hackers to steal personal information. It makes one vulnerable to identity theft and other such threats.


4. Hide post in batches:

So far Facebook gives users no way to star or hide posts in batches. Suppose, a user wants to delete a certain number of posts for say a particular month or a year, there is no way he can do that all at once. He is required to go and delete all individually.


5. Seven days too less

Facebook is giving users seven days to review everything that appears on their timeline before anyone else can see it. However, seven days are exactly not sufficient. Especially, for heavy Facebook users. It is extremely difficult for a heavy Facebook user to sift through all his postings in a seven-day period.
Facebook spent months developing Timeline, however it's giving users just seven days.