Annual review season? Stop starting from a blank doc. PaperKit drafts a proper Annual Performance Review / Appraisal the manager fills in and signs — the recurring sibling of your probation review and interview scorecard, for the employees you already have. Pick the review cycle — ANNUAL, SEMI-ANNUAL, QUARTERLY, MID-YEAR, PROJECT / END-OF-CYCLE, or 90-DAY — and the whole review reshapes (the title, the framing, the criteria intro, and the closing). The centerpiece is a clean PERFORMANCE DIMENSIONS table: rate the employee on each dimension on a 1–5 scale (or N/A) — Outstanding, Exceeds expectations, Meets expectations, Below expectations, Well below expectations — for job knowledge, quality of work, productivity, communication, teamwork, initiative, and reliability, add a supporting comment, and PaperKit colors each rating and DERIVES an OVERALL AVERAGE performance score, with a scale legend right on the form. Then record the OVERALL PERFORMANCE RATING — EXCEPTIONAL, EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS, MEETS EXPECTATIONS, PARTIALLY MEETS, or BELOW EXPECTATIONS — shown as a bold, color-coded badge (green → red) at the top that also reshapes the closing. Answer a set of structured prompts too — key accomplishments, strengths, areas to develop, goals for next period, a manager summary, values & behaviors, training & development, and the employee's own comments — and each becomes a tidy question & answer block. Add your own custom prompts, an overall comment, an optional employee info block, and a short manager sign-off (my own assessment, based on performance, job-related & lawful, confidential, and e-signature consent). The manager is the one completing it, so THEY e-sign the hosted appraisal online — there's no second signature, and the page is set to noindex to keep it private. (This is a convenience template, not legal, HR, or professional advice — PaperKit doesn't make any employment decision; your organization owns its performance-management process and must appraise and make any pay, promotion, or employment decision lawfully on job-related performance only.)
The big lever — it reshapes the whole review: the title, the framing, the criteria intro, and the closing.
Annual performance review — the full-year appraisal and overall rating for an ongoing employee.
Your overall assessment — it shows as a bold, color-coded badge (green → red) at the top of the appraisal and reshapes the closing line.
Rate the employee on each dimension on a 1–5 scale (or N/A). PaperKit colors each rating and derives an average performance score across the rated rows.
Turn on the prompts you want to answer — each answered prompt shows up as a question & answer block on the appraisal. 5 answered.
Each one you turn on becomes a checked ✓ affirmation above the signature.
A real annual performance review. The review cycle reshapes the title, framing and closing; your overall rating shows as a colored badge; your ratings fill a colored 1–5 table with a derived average; each prompt you answer becomes a question & answer block. Publish to get a hosted link the manager e-signs online.
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A performance appraisal is a template for convenience, not legal, HR, or professional advice. PaperKit does not make any employment decision — the organization is responsible for its performance-management process and for any pay, promotion, or employment decisions, made lawfully on job-related performance only, and you are responsible for the accuracy of what you state. Employment and record-keeping laws vary, so confirm your own policies. PaperKit is not a law firm and records electronic signature via the signer's typed name.