Complete My Self-Appraisal

When your facility runs a review cycle, you get to rate yourself before your manager weighs in — that is your self-appraisal. You open it from your own screen, score each goal and competency on the cycle’s scale, add a comment or two, and then sign it off with your eSign PIN. Once signed, your part is permanently recorded and read-only: nobody can quietly edit your own words after the fact, and you can’t either.

A couple of terms first. A review cycle is a named appraisal round HR runs (for example “H1 2026 Performance Review”); you take part in it by being enrolled. An appraisal is one perspective on you within that cycle — your own Self view, plus the Manager (and any peer) appraisals others write about you. ESS stands for employee self-service — the “My HR” floor every staff member reaches with no special HR permission, scoped so you only ever see your own record. Your eSign PIN is your 6-digit electronic signature, the same one you use to sign anything else in Veona.

Who / when: Any Staff with an employee record, whenever HR has enrolled you in an open review cycle and asked you to self-appraise. You do the whole thing yourself; your manager completes their side separately.

We will follow Amara, a lab scientist enrolled in this half’s review cycle.

Open and complete your self-appraisal

1. Any Staff — open Human Resources → My HR → My Appraisals. The top panel, “My Review Cycles”, lists every cycle you are enrolled in, showing your “Reviewer”, how many “Goals” you have in that cycle, and the state of “My Self-Appraisal” — either “In Progress” or “Signed Off”.
2. Any Staff — find the cycle you want and press “Self-Appraise” on its row. (If you have already signed off, the button instead reads “View”.) Veona opens (or creates) your Self appraisal and shows the rating sheet in a panel titled “Self Appraisal”, with your name and the cycle beneath it.
3. Any Staff — in the “Ratings” section, build your rating lines. Press “Add Goal” to score one of your goals: the “Goal” field is a searchable picker scoped to your goals in this cycle, so you pick a real goal, never type one freehand. Press “Add Competency” to score a competency (for example “Communication”) by name. Each line takes a “Rating” within the cycle’s scale (the heading shows the range, for example “Score 1–5”) and an optional “Comment”. Use “Remove” to drop a line you added by mistake.
4. Any Staff — in the “Overall” section, give your “Overall Rating” on the same scale and write an “Overall Comment” summing up your half.
5. Any Staff — press “Save Draft” to keep your work without finishing. You can close the panel and come back as often as you like; your ratings are waiting where you left them, and the cycle still shows “In Progress”.
6. Any Staff — when you are happy, press “Sign Off”. Veona explains that signing finalises the appraisal with your 6-digit eSign PIN and makes the ratings read-only. Enter your “eSign PIN” and press “Sign & Finalise”.
7. Any Staff — your self-appraisal is now signed. The cycle row flips to “Signed Off”, and the appraisal opens read-only from here on, stamped with the date you signed.

Note

Every rating line needs a score before Veona will save or submit, and every goal line needs a goal actually selected from the picker. If something is missing, you will see a short prompt (for example “Every rating line needs a score.”) and nothing is saved until you fix it.

Tip

“Submit” and “Sign Off” are not the same. “Submit” moves your appraisal to a Submitted state so your manager knows you are done, but leaves it editable. “Sign Off” is the final, PIN-sealed step that locks it for good. If you only want to flag it as ready, submit; if it is truly finished, sign off.

Caution

Signing off is final. The moment you press “Sign & Finalise” and your PIN is accepted, the ratings become permanently recorded and read-only — there is no “unsign”. Read your sheet through before you sign, because changing it afterwards is not something self-service allows.

See every appraisal of you

The lower panel, “Appraisals Of Me”, is the fuller picture. It lists every appraisal recorded about you in any cycle, each with its “Perspective” (Self, Manager, Peer), the “Reviewer”, the “Overall” rating, the “Status” and when it was “Signed”. Press “Open” on your own Self row to keep working on it, or “View” on a Manager or Peer row to read what they recorded about you (read-only — only the author can edit their own appraisal).

Other ways this goes

Saving as a draft and coming back later

1. Any Staff — on your open self-appraisal, press “Save Draft” at any point. Your ratings and comments are stored exactly as they stand and the cycle stays “In Progress”.
2. Any Staff — close the panel and return whenever you like via Human Resources → My HR → My Appraisals; press “Self-Appraise” again and your draft reopens with everything you had entered. Nothing is final until you sign off.

Marking your part ready without locking it

1. Any Staff — press “Submit” instead of signing. Your appraisal moves to a Submitted state — your manager can see you consider it complete — but it is still editable, so you can reopen and adjust it.
2. Any Staff — when you are certain, come back and “Sign Off” to seal it. Submitting is the “ready for review” nudge; signing is the lock.

Viewing your manager’s appraisal of you

1. Any Staff — in “Appraisals Of Me”, find the row whose “Perspective” is Manager and press “View”.
2. Any Staff — the rating sheet opens read-only, showing how your manager scored your goals and competencies and their overall comment. You can read it, but only your manager can edit their own appraisal, just as only you can edit yours.

After it is signed off — read-only for good

1. Any Staff — open a self-appraisal you have already signed (the cycle shows “Signed Off”, and the row button reads “View”).
2. Any Staff — every field is locked and a note tells you it was electronically signed off, with the date. There are no save or sign buttons — the record stands as you sealed it. If something genuinely needs correcting after sign-off, that is an HR conversation, not a self-service edit.

You are not enrolled in any cycle yet

1. Any Staff — if HR has not enrolled you in a review cycle, “My Review Cycles” shows a plain message: “You are not enrolled in any review cycle yet. Once HR enrols you, your self-appraisal appears here.” This is a true empty state, not an error — there is simply nothing to appraise.
2. Any Staff — there is nothing for you to do until HR opens a cycle and enrols you. When they do, the cycle appears here with a “Self-Appraise” button and you can begin.

What happens next

Your signed self-appraisal becomes the permanent, you-authored half of the cycle. Your manager completes their own appraisal of you separately, and together the perspectives form your review on the record. There is nothing else for you to file — what you signed is the truth of how you rated your own half, sealed with your PIN and dated. You can reopen any signed appraisal from “Appraisals Of Me” any time to re-read it.

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