Some of the methods used to conduct the assessment include:

• Methods Graphic Rating Scale, the Scale who wrote a number of characteristics and range of performance values ​​for each attribute. Employees are then assessed by identifying the most appropriate value to the performance levels for each attribute.
• Method of rating alternation, which gives ratings to employees from best to worst based on certain characteristics, by selecting the best and the worst, until all have been ranked.
• Pair wise Comparison method, which is doing the ranking of employees by creating a diagram of all possible pairs of employees for each attribute and determines which one is better employees in each pair.
• Power Distribution Method with judging on a curve, the percentage of assessed allegedly placed in various performance categories.
• Critical incident method, which keeps records of good examples that are not common or preferred examples of behaviors that are not job-related employees and reviewing records to the employee at a predetermined time.
• Methods Standard Behavioral Rating Scale, the method of assessment that aims to combine the advantages of narrative, critical incident, and the scale measured by making a measurable scale based on specific narrative examples of good and bad performance.