How we work:
The assessment sheet – filled in by the supervisor – and the individual comments included (and which we highly recommend the supervisor take the opportunity to provide) form an idea, a picture.
We describe this picture of the employee in his daily work, within the frame of the criterion to be evaluated, by means of the ticked-off, characteristic attributes.
By way of example, we will concentrate here on two real Interim Employment References from our daily work routine and confine ourselves to the criterions of “Willingness to Work” and “Ability to Work”.
We copied the corresponding assessment sheets in parts and will exemplify the relevant paragraphs in the Interim Employment Reference.
A medical sales representative in field service, 32 years old and working in her area for 22 months. The reason for the creation of the Interim Employment Reference in this example is the beginning of her parental leave.
Extract from the Assessment Sheet:
In the assessment sheet the supervisor provided the following illustrative details:
A Business Development Manager, 28 years old, in the company for 20 months. A change of superior in progress.
Extract from the Assessment Sheet:
Here, the supervisor provided further characteristic details, too:
The path leading to an individual Employment Reference which is legally secure as well as promotional is relatively easy, if you consider the following aspects:
Information about professional knowledge, working methods or about quality and success would be misplaced in the criteria of willingness to work and ability to work.
At Zeugnisfabrik NRW, we phrased the examples illustrated above for the criteria of willingness to work and ability to work as follows:
Ms. Doe is an ambitious and dedicated sales representative. She convinces through expedient, thorough planning of her daily assignments as well as through an individual preparation for her
customers. To this end, she works significant overtime in the evenings and on weekends.
Her distinct creativity and mental agility are as much a part of her personal strengths as her natural, authentic and positive charisma. In addition, Ms. Doe possesses sound judgment and uses
contemporary sales techniques in an extremely versatile and skillful manner in customer pitches, which has quickly placed her among our top salespeople.
Mr. Doe convinces with his enormous enthusiasm and initiative. Determined, persistent and very successful, he is committed to linking our products with the needs of our customers.
Mr. Doe always copes perfectly with the high demands of his position and in particular with the strain of the large amount of travel. Thanks to his excellent intellectual grasp and his analytical
and creative way of thinking, he quickly familiarizes himself with new tasks. His decisive ideas in working on customer projects as well as his contributions to solution approaches in team
discussions are highly appreciated.