21st May 2004, 08:30 PM
Annual reviews of ones performance and skills is the obvious way for employers to assess their staff and for people to demonstrate their suitability for a promotion and for future performance/training targets to be set.
Unfortunately few units appear to have any real grading system with annnual reviews in place that allows staff to move up the scale. Also as many of us are on temporary contracts etc we're never around for an annual review anyway.
And the main problem is that no matter how well an individuals performance may increase, so they can justifiably ask for promotion, its still comes down to whether a unit has an operational need for it. There are far too many eager graduates for a limited pool of jobs and if everybody who could justfiably ask for a promotion got one we would have a profession full of PO's and no diggers.
Unfortunately few units appear to have any real grading system with annnual reviews in place that allows staff to move up the scale. Also as many of us are on temporary contracts etc we're never around for an annual review anyway.
And the main problem is that no matter how well an individuals performance may increase, so they can justifiably ask for promotion, its still comes down to whether a unit has an operational need for it. There are far too many eager graduates for a limited pool of jobs and if everybody who could justfiably ask for a promotion got one we would have a profession full of PO's and no diggers.