Complete your self review

What this achieves

A self review is your own account of the period — how you rate your goals and what you want your manager to take into account. Submitting it is final, so it is worth writing before you send rather than after.

Required role: Any signed-in user.

Steps

Go to Performance → My Reviews.
Open the review for the current cycle.
Under Your goals this period, rate each goal and add your comments.
Complete the Overall self assessment.
Submit the review.

Once submitted, it is locked

You cannot edit a self review after submitting it. The screen says so before you submit and confirms it afterwards.

Write it, leave it, and read it again before sending. There is no draft-and-revise cycle once it has gone.

Example: James Whitfield finishes his self review on Thursday and submits it on Friday after re-reading. Once submitted, changing it means asking his manager or HR to intervene, not editing it himself.

Rating your own goals

Where the cycle includes goal review, your goals for the period are listed and you rate each one alongside an overall self assessment. The self rating is on the cycle’s rating scale.

Your goal ratings sit beside your manager’s when they review you, so the two accounts are visible together rather than one replacing the other.

Who reads it

Whether your manager can see your self review is a setting on the cycle, decided by whoever set it up. It is not automatic in either direction.

If it matters to how you write, ask what the setting is for this cycle rather than assuming.

Waiting for results

After submitting, you wait. Your manager’s rating and comments are not visible to you while the cycle is running — the screen tells you when your manager has not completed their review yet, and shows your rating as pending until results are released.

Results become visible when the cycle is finalised, which releases them for everyone at once.

Reading your results

When results are released you see your final rating, your manager’s comments, your goal outcomes, and your own submitted self review alongside them.

Two things are worth understanding in that view. If your rating was changed during calibration, it is marked as adjusted at calibration rather than presented as if the manager had given it. And where your goal plan produced a score, you see what it scored and what rating that suggested — along with your manager’s written note if they rated differently.

Example: James Whitfield’s results show his goal plan score, the rating it suggested, and Olivia Bennett’s note explaining why she rated as she did. He can see the reasoning, not only the outcome.

Acknowledging

Acknowledging confirms you have reviewed and understood your results, and you can add an optional comment. The acknowledgement is recorded with its date.

Acknowledging is not agreeing. If you disagree, the comment is where you say so, and it stays on the record.

What happens next

Your acknowledgement completes your part of the cycle. Your rating becomes part of your rating history across cycles, and it feeds compensation decisions and any reward eligibility your organization runs from performance.