"My last work evaluation was about three weeks ago. Our company holds evaluations every six months, and the premise of the evaluation is to discuss our percentage to goal as well as any general performance feedback. In my most recent evaluation, my supervisor asked that I be a touch more careful when it came to my documentation and coding. I made a couple of errors that were not damaging; however, they were a bit messy. For the most part, my boss has great things to say about my willingness to take on extra work and help out my coworkers when their workload becomes overwhelming."

First, briefly mention when your last performance appraisal was. Then, get into discussing the details of where your strong points were and what areas of improvement were noted. Most modern performance appraisal systems will even require constructive criticism, or areas of improvement, for all staff and your interviewer will expect you to bring up what that looked like in your most recent review. Talk openly about this and make sure you assure your interviewer that you took an important lesson moving forward in your work.

"My last review was this past October. We have a great process where we work with our director on setting goals each year and then measuring against them. I hit all of my goals except for one and, during my review, we agreed that I likely set that as too lofty of a goal because my work on that goal was great."