Professional identity and Practice - Sample Assignment
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Professional identity and Practice - Sample Assignment
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PROFESSIONAL IDENTITYAND PRACTICE
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1P1. Key benefits of on going professional development for different stakeholders withincompany.................................................................................................................................1P2. Investigate professional employer expectation of skills and competencies within industry3TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4P3. Assess own abilities, skills, and competences for a specific job role..............................4P4. Review a range of learning theories and approaches used for personal and professionaldevelopment processes...........................................................................................................5TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6P5. Construct a development plan to enhance chosen skills and competencies within a specificwork context...........................................................................................................................6TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7P6. Undertake a job interview for a suitable service industry role.........................................7P7. Review key strengths and weaknesses of an applied interview process..........................8CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8REFERENCE...................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTIONProfessional identity can be defined as a concept which consist of a different beliefs,motive, values, attribute, practices and experience that helps in enhancing the performance levelat workplace (Barley and Kunda, 2016). This is specifically build with different conditions facedby an individual which is required to be followed in order to develop a professional identity. It isbeing found that, it is much required for an individual to carry a range of practices which couldhelp in developing a unique identity within the professional business world. In order to build adeeper knowledge, Virgin Holidays which is a tour and travel business organisation has beentaken under this report. It was found in the year of 1985 and coming under the Virgin Groupwhich was found and owned by Sir Richard Branson. Along with this, report is going to includekey benefits of on going professional development regarding various stakeholders. Away thisthis, assignment will also put light on own competencies, skills considering approaches. Lastly, adevelopment plan along with the transferable skills within service industry has also beenincluded.
TASK 1P1. Key benefits of on going professional development for different stakeholders withincompanyCompany's Overview:Virgin Holidays, a famous United Kingdom's tour and travel business organisationdelivering a range of services to consumers related to tourism sector. Company was found in1985 and basically offers holidays worldwide with destinations that are coming under Canada,USA, Africa, India, Middle East, Australia, Far East and South Pacific. Along with this, VirginHolidays has a specialist cruise division, "Virgin Holidays Cruises" and "Worldwide Journeys"which company offers to its customers and this makes them different from other businessorganisation that are performing at international level. In order to gain competitive advantages,company would require to deliver a continuous professional development program for itsstakeholders. Some of key benefits of this are given below:Key benefits for stakeholders:Continuous Professional Development can be defined as an on going learning processwhich could help an individual in maintaining the overall professional competencies and skills inorder to gain competitive advantages at workplace. It is essential because this process majorlystays enclosed with past experiences which has been faced by an individual and then training canbe given to overcome different weaknesses or build up effective plans and procedures (Lamoteand Engels, 2010). Some of key elements/benefits are given below: Increase retention: Continuous improvement plan if provided by Virgin Holidays to itsemployees, it will directly aid them in retaining customers for a longer time frame because theymight get proper learning which will aid in improving satisfactory level as well. For the same,there is another approach which could be used and i.e. compensation, incentives and more whichmight help Virgin Holidays in building trust among staff.Helps to develop successful plans: Considering an on going professional developmentplan, it can be said that Virgin Holidays could develop plans at workstation for improvising theskills and requirements of staff. In present context, a successful plan consist of existing skills,capabilities that are needed to be changed successfully and here a plan could be developed forample number of benefits for customers, employees and for Virgin Holidays as well.
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