Self-assessments can be difficult to write. You might feel like you're bragging about your performance and find it challenging to be objective. For your manager, though, it’s an opportunity to be reminded of your successes and challenges from your own perspective. Performance reviews help keep everyone on track, provide clear expectations, and set reasonable goals for the year, and self-assessments play a critical role in that. In this course, we’ll go over some pointers to keep in mind before writing your assessment. We’ll talk about what information should go into your assessment and discuss how to review the assessment with your manager.