While clearly important, writing your professional self-assessment can be a struggle. Before you start copying from a template, you might want to consider the value of writing a genuine self-assessment response that reflects on your real contributions to your organization. Your annual self-assessment gives you a chance to think back on your biggest successes and failures of the year and discuss your career and professional future with your manager. If you are in HR, you likely spend so much time working on the annual performance appraisal process for others that you haven’t taken a moment to think about your own self-assessment.

The world of HR is constantly changing. So much so, that it can seem impossible to keep up with the latest best practices, tech and innovations. While outlets like SHRM and HRCI are clearly very helpful, there is also an entire world of HR bloggers whose work you can benefit from. By subscribing and following their words, you can easily know the who, what, when, where and why of the latest HR news.

72% of submitted applications are never read by an actual person. And, 62% of employers who use this software admit some qualified candidates are likely being filtered out of the vetting process by mistake.