Business Professional Development Assignment

Business Professional
Development

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Business professional development has been considered as one of the most effective requirement
of every business enterprises from the perspective of its employees. The present report will focus
on importance of having employee professional development in business. Further, emphasis will
be made on career development along with viewpoints of other authors in relation to meaning of
individual career development. Food and Beverage Manager role in the industry will also be
described thereby setting of long as well as short term goals. At last, theory related to
identification of goal setting will be done.

Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
My Career...............................................................................................................................1
Goal Setting............................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................8
APPENDICES 1..............................................................................................................................9
APPENDICES 2 ...........................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Career Development relates to the series of activities which helps in the growth and
development of an individual's career (Fraser, 2016). It generally refers to the management of an
individual's career in intra organisational or inter organisational scenarios. The following
assignment will also make its focus on the development of career in the files of Food and
Beverage Manager. In addition to this, the following assignment will also make its focus on the
development of career and will reflect on the viewpoints of other authors in relation to provide a
specific meaning of career development of an individual. The description of the role in the
industry will also be provided in this assignment. Moreover, setting of goals both long term as
well as short term and identification of goal setting theory will be done to make proper
development in the career of an individual.
MAIN BODY
My Career
I started my career just after three months of completing my graduation in Dietetics, in
the filed of Food Service Management. In starting, it was not possible for me to find out a good
job in this field, as I was a fresher and also lacking in practical knowledge so I thought of starting
it from some short level and then I gave my interview in some local restaurant. With the help of
this, it was possible for to have some knowledge about the management of food in hotels and
restaurants. So in order to develop this knowledge I started to work under the Food and Beverage
Manager of that Hotel and worked under him for 18 months and have proper knowledge about
the works, duties, roles and responsibilities of Food and Beverage Manager. This helped me a lot
in making a good start to my career from a good restaurant and good job that could help me in
developing my career and also in managing my career.
So after getting a little bit experienced from my first job about what are the duties and
roles and responsibilities of Food and Beverage Manager, I decided to change the job and opt for
something better. Than I saw the advertisement of Food and Beverage Manager's vacant post in
an article in newspaper stating the requirement of candidate for this post. So I made my mind to
get this job and gave their interview for this post and also got selected. However, it was a
surprising experience for me as I did not expected to be selected for this job post with this much
experience only. But however, I started the job which was much different from that of earlier. It
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