Monster Launches Interactive Self Assessment Site - Evalu8me.ca!
Find out how your workplace views the qualities you bring to the job
Canadians want to know how others really see them and
Monster’s ‘evalu8me.ca’ is the tool
MONTREAL – January 11, 2007 – Monster.ca, Canada's leading career management portal, invites Canadians to experience an evalu8me.ca self-evaluation, which follows the success of last year’s award-winning “Rate Your Boss” online survey, in which more than 100,000 Canadians take part.
With evalu8me.ca, Canadians get a chance to find out how their strengths and qualities on the job are perceived by others, and to compare that view to their own assessment as well as to others in their company and industry. What particular qualities do you bring to your company? Are you dedicated? Creative? Knowledgeable? Organized? A team player? evalu8me.ca will let each participant ask selected ‘evaluators’ to provide input on eight workplace qualities that they bring to their job.
“Everyone wants to know more about how they are perceived by those around them, in terms of which qualities they bring to the job each day,” says Louis Gagnon, vice president marketing, Monster.ca. “Traditional employee evaluations aren’t designed to address what the boss, colleagues and customers really think of you - and how it all compares with how you view your own strengths or qualities.”
An overwhelming majority of Canadians say they would like to have a better idea of what others really think of them and the work they do each day, an online poll by Monster.ca earlier this year reveals. Eighty-one per cent of Canadians participating in the online survey said they would like to know what colleagues, the boss, even customers have to say about their workplace qualities.
Evaluators can be colleagues, friends, supervisors, even customers. The person being evaluated then takes the same evaluation on evalu8me.ca to see how their own perceptions measure up against the others – with the results providing a revealing and perhaps rare 360-degree view of each evalu8me.ca participant. All responses are confidential.
When all the results are in, Canadians will also be able to see how their own results compare to other evalu8me.ca participants in the same occupation.
“This will be an extremely revealing but positive and fun exercise for the many Canadians out there who are interested in knowing how others perceive their qualities and strengths on the job,” said Gagnon.
“Someone who sees their strengths or best qualities, for example, as being very organized, or dedicated, or level-headed, might be surprised to learn that others see creativity as their best quality or strength. Ultimately, we hope Canadians will learn a bit about themselves and have fun along the way as they discover how others view their strengths and qualities on the job,” Gagnon added.