Job Assessment Quotes

I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.

If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

If you were your own employer, would you be entirely satisfied with the day’s work you have done today?

In my position, I can make changes. I can make changes across the entire organization. If John Ireland doesn't do his job, in his radio broadcast play-by-play, then we would make that change. If the Laker Girls drop down in caliber and couldn't do a dance number, then we'd make changes there.

Everybody that has a measurement, whether it's in teaching or whether it's in your job, you're always worried how you will be measured.

Whenever I interview someone for a job, I always ask them whether they want to sit in Bernanke's chair. The only wrong answer is, 'Who's Bernanke?'.

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

In the workplace, employees should be judged on their merit and hard work and not on aspects that are irrelevant to their performance.

Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.

One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.

I've had friends of mine hire people that I know well or that have worked for me, and I haven't gotten the call to do a reference check. That's almost the most basic thing one can do to assess them.