Review Templates

Overview

Note: Help content (except videos) has been updated to reflect the UI/UX changes in BQE CORE.

BQE CORE allows you to create a set of criteria to measure the job performance of your employees or review their salaries. For example, you might want to measure an employee's product knowledge, programming skills or management skills. You can create a performance review template with questions covering all these criteria. For example, work quality, job knowledge, team work, attendance, safety, etc. Click to watch this video on reviewing employees in CORE.

You can create multiple employee review templates in CORE because the questions relevant to one type of employee or situation might not be relevant to the other. Sometimes the reviews are updated year-to-year and so you might maintain yearly review templates. When initiating a new review, you can choose the template that is appropriate for the employees. You can also choose one of the pre-defined review templates available in CORE and then clone or edit them to suit your preferences.

Field Descriptions

How To

Add Review Templates

Add Question Types

Clone Review Templates

Export Review Templates

View Reports

Apply Filters

Mark Screen as Favorite

Field Descriptions

Add Review Templates

To create a new employee review template, watch this video or follow these steps:

1. Open the Review Templates screen from the side menu > Settings > Human Resources.
   
   
   
   
2. On the Review Templates tab, click Add.
3. On the Add New Review Template dialog, enter the required information. Check Field Descriptions above for details.
   • Template Name
   • Description
4. Click Add.
5. In the edit view, you can add components to your review template such as sections (question categories) and questions. Click Add Section to begin.
   
   
   
   
6. Enter a suitable Section Title.
7. Then click Add Question either From Scratch or From Existing.
8. On the Add New Question dialog, enter the question details:
   • Assign To: You have an option to assign the new question to the Reviewer only (manager or supervisor), Reviewee only (employee), or to both.
   • Question Text
   • Question Type: select it from a predefined list
9. Click Add. It displays under the relevant section on the template. You can add more questions and sections as needed.
10. Click Save. You can click  to drag and drop the sections and questions as per your design preference.

You are ready to use this template for your employee review.

Add Question Types

You must have various question types for your employee review templates.

To create a new question type, watch this video or follow these steps:

1. Open the Question Types screen from the side menu > Settings > Human Resources > Review Templates.
   
   
   
   
2. On the Question Types tab, click Add.
3. On the Add Question Type dialog, enter the required information. Check Field Descriptions above for details.
   • Question Type
4. Select the type of response or answer for this question type:
   • Answer Type
5. In case of Fixed Responses, click Add Response and enter the required information in the grid:
   • Response, say 5 Star
   • Description, say Five Star
   • Score, say 5 to 1
6. Click Done.
7. Add more responses to complete it. Then click Save.

Your question type is displayed in the list view. You can use it while creating a new review template.

Clone Review Templates

CORE allows you to clone an existing employee review template and thus create a duplicate of that template. You can then modify the cloned template according to your requirements.

 To clone a review template:

1. Open the Review Templates screen from the side menu > Settings > Human Resources.
   
   
   
   
2. In the list view, select the review template you want to clone and click  to select Clone.
3. On the Clone Review Template dialog, enter the required information.
   • Template Name: Name of the cloned employee review template, say Annual Performance Review Template-2.
   • Description
4. Click Clone. It gets added to the list view.
5. To view and modify the details of the cloned template, click  on its row to select either View Details or Edit.
6. In the Edit screen, you can make your changes such as add more sections and questions to it or edit the existing ones.
   
   
   
   
7. When you have finished, click Save.

Export Review Templates

In CORE, you can export employee review templates to the Comma Separated Values file format. CORE exports data from all available columns and not just the columns visible in the grid.

To export review templates to a .CSV file, watch this video or follow these steps:

1. Open the Review Templates screen from the side menu > Settings > Human Resources.
   
   
   
   
2. In the list view, click More > Export as CSV.
3. A .csv export file is created and saved on your system at the default download location, say your desktop. Click to open the spreadsheet.

You can also check the detailed video on exporting data in CORE.

View Reports

To view a report:

1. Open the Review Templates screen from the side menu > Settings > Human Resources.
   
   
   
   
2. In the list view, click More > View Reports.
3. Select a report from the Report List dialog. It opens in the viewer.
4. Preview the report and then choose to export or print it.

You can also check the detailed video on running and managing reports in CORE.

Apply Filters

To view selective data on the grid, watch this video or follow these steps:

1. Open the Review Templates screen from the side menu > Settings > Human Resources.
   
   
   
   
2. In the list view, click  on the right.
3. On the Filters panel, select a filter from the drop-down and specify individual records or range.
4. Click Add Filters to specify more filters.
5. When you have finished, click Apply Filter. You can see selective data now.
6. In the list view, you can remove the individual filters by clicking  on each. To disable applied filters temporarily or remove all filters, click  next to the Filters icon and select Disable Filters or Clear All, respectively.

You can also check the detailed video on applying filters in CORE.

Mark Screen as Favorite

You can mark or flag the most-often used and important screens in CORE as your favorites up to a maximum of ten. These favorite screens then display separately on the side menu under the Favorites list. You can manage all your favorite screens in CORE from User Settings.

To mark this screen as your favorite, watch this video or follow these steps:

1. Open the Review Templates screen from the side menu > Settings >  Human Resources.
   
   
   
   
2. Click on the top-right.
3. You can access this screen from the side menu under Favorites.

You can also check the detailed video on marking screens as favorite in CORE.