Professional Identity and Practice

Professional identity and
practice
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
ACTIVITY 1...................................................................................................................................3
A brief introduction of Hilton hotel.............................................................................................3
Key benefits and importance of ongoing professionals...............................................................3
Investigation of skills and competences for hospitality manager................................................4
Assessing current abilities and skills...........................................................................................5
A critical evaluation of own abilities, skills and competences....................................................6
Different learning theories and approaches.................................................................................6
Most effective and appropriate developmental approaches for enhance professional and
personal skills..............................................................................................................................7
ACTIVITY 2...................................................................................................................................8
SMART strategy to develop a development plan for enhances skills.........................................8
Evidences of detailed development plan.....................................................................................8
Produce comprehensive development plan.................................................................................9
ACTIVITY 3.................................................................................................................................10
Plan and undertake a job interview............................................................................................10
Review the key strength and weakness.....................................................................................11
Evaluate a job interview process...............................................................................................11
Critical reflection about the job interview process....................................................................12
CONCLUISION............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTION
Professional development is the best learning for earning as well as maintaining
professional career in the future. For, the employee and student have to done self assessments for
achieving great success at company. Professional development is the best way to improve sills to
be better for meet the needs and wants of their employees as well as students. The present report
is based on Hilton hotel which is a global brand of full services hotels and resort as well as
flagship brand of American Multinational Hospitality Company. The report will explores the
importance of on-going professional development and self directed learning for enhance
professional identity and career opportunity. This will assess the skill, competences and the
different level learning and development approaches. The report will design professional
development plan, within the specific work context. At the end of report will demonstrate the
range of services industry as well as transferable skills for the job application.
MAIN BODY
ACTIVITY 1
A brief introduction of Hilton hotel.
The Hilton hotels and resort is a global brand of the full services hotels as well as resorts
and the flagship brand of American Multinational Hospitality Company. Company is founded
by Conrad Hilton. This includes properties that is owned or leased with 20264 rooms. Present
company has serves to the world wide area with 586 numbers of locations. This is the Flagship
brand and one of the largest hotel brands in world. This is targeted at the both businesses as well
as leisure traveller with location in the major city centre, near the airport, convention centre and
popular vacation destination around the world (Webb, 2017). The company is also participants in
Hilton hotel as well as loyalty program. Hotel is provided and offers great and wonderful
facilities as well as hospitality services to their customers in effective and respective manner.
Key benefits and importance of ongoing professionals.
There are various benefits and importance of ongoing professional development which is
help to develop effective and valuable benefits and profits for employees. This help to enhance
prefect career prospects. This help to employees for continue to not only be competent in their
profession. It should be an ongoing process which is continuous throughout an individual career.
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This activity is pursuing professional development ensures about the knowledge and skills stay
relevant and up to date.
 It can be sharpening the knowledge, especially which you are already feeling rusty. The
complete knowledge of work and project is help to enhance career within the Hilton hotel
(Holland and Leslie, 2017).
 It develop skills and offers the great opportunity for learn something new. Ongoing pro-
fession is hospitality manager within the Hilton hotel is help to develop great opportunity
to create and working for others in effective and in valuable manner.
 This help to make employees satisfies and become more confident when people promote
their job effectiveness. This offers great opportunity to develop professionally such the
cross training and job showing as well as mentorship.
 This helps to enhance business reputation and attracting higher caliber job for candidates
place some ads for an opening and wants (Wearing, Benson and McGehee, 2016). With
the help of professional development programs that can assures to achieve this as well as
build a positive reputation as an employer to strive for employ only with the best career
about the people.
Those are the great and effective importance and benefits with ongoing professional
development. This help to enhance great career opportunity for Hilton hotel and hospitality
manager.
Benefit of using professional development for Employer:
If company provide Professional development, then it provide benefit to their employers
such that they developed a skilled workforce for the company and this in turn leads a business to
meet the define aim. Also, having such a good labour will assist to improve the brand image of
the company, as a result, customers are attracted towards a business that leads to improve the
financial performance. That is why, there is a need to provide timely professional development
plan which in turn leads to meet the define aim. On the other side, another benefit which
employer get through professional development is to improve the skills and offer new
opportunities to assist a business to improve the existing performance. Overall, it help to enhance
the business reputation which in turn build a positive impression upon society and customer.
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