Professional Identity and Practice

Professional Identity and Practice

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Task 1 ..............................................................................................................................................1
Importance of Professional and Personal Development .............................................................1
Reflection on Skill, competence required and different learning and development approaches.3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
Development plan .......................................................................................................................5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
My application and interview for Travel Consultant role................................................................8
Curricular Vitae...........................................................................................................................8
My Interview process...................................................................................................................9
Reflective Report.......................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Personal and Professional development is the process which involves learning for both
employee and organization to achieve organizational objectives and to accomplish goals. It is
important to learn continuously in order to remain unbeaten in this competitive or continuous
evolving era. The report will cover personal and professional development in terms of Flight
Centre organization. Flight Centre is a travel agency, which is operating in various countries. It is
one of the largest travel agency of the world. This report will cover the importance of personal
and professional development in context of Flight Centre to enhance professional identity and
career opportunities. This report will also assess individual skills, and competencies and different
learning and approaches. Then after assessing it will provide a development plan in order to
become Travel Consultant at Flight Centre. The report will also demonstrate range of Flight
Centre and needed skills for travel consultant.
Task 1
Importance of Professional and Personal Development
Personal and professional development is a continuous and ongoing process that an
individual perform to enhance its skills and knowledge for further developments. It is important
for every individual to continuous learn and enhance skills, knowledge, capabilities for personal
and professional growth in the future. Professional development of individual provides benefit to
various stakeholder, employees and at last to Flight Centre company.
Key benefits of professional development to various stakeholders
Increasing Productivity: Continuous learning new thing helps in enhancement of employees
skills and knowledge to produce products or deliver services of the company to customers.
Highly knowledgable employees perform their work effectively and efficient work thus reduces
cost and wastage of material. So, personal and professional development provide benefit to
customers by providing quality products or services of company at reasonable price.
Satisfied Employees needs: Professional development increases employees efficiency to
perform work effectively thus making employees happy and satisfied. So, it is beneficial to
employees as enhancement in skill and knowledge of employees help them in effectively and
easy performance of their task.
Raised standard of living: Continuous learning increase knowledge of people for perform
various task in the society and help in pace of economy as there is increase in level of education
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employees. So, it is beneficial to government, customers, employees as the economic is growing
, increase in Disposable income of customers, low employment rate and increase in standard of
living in the Society.
Promote economy Growth: Personal and profession development by continuous learning
update knowledge of individuals to perform various activities in the Society. It helps in
development of country by bring new ideas, change in technology, method of production thus
increases GDP of country. It also helps in utilizing various opportunity available in other
countries thus promote economy growth. So, it provides benefit to people in the society namely
consumers and employees and also government of the country.
Benefit of Personal and profession Development to employees and employer
Personal and professional development provide various benefits to both employees and
employer of the company.
Increases knowledge and skills: Personal and professional development increase knowledge
and skill of employees thus help in effectively and easy performance of task. It reduces burden
and dissatisfaction among employees of Fight Centre company. Whereas increase in knowledge
and skill helps to employer by improving performance and productivity of employees. Thus,
increasing in performance and reduction in wastage of material enhances profitability of
company.
Increase in profit: Employees of Fight Centre can easily adapt to various change of
environment due to high skill ans knowledge thus helps the company in gaining competitive
advantages in the market. Employees can effectively use update technology thus reducing
production cost and increasing profit margin of the company. Increase in profitability of
company enhance remuneration and various benefits of employees thus satisfy their needs in
effectively manner.
Satisfied employees: Personal and profession development provides benefit to both employees
and employer as employee feels satisfied and comfortable in performing is task due to its
effective knowledge and skills. At the same time it benefits to employer of Fight Centre because
satisfied employees work happy and effectively for achievement of company's goals. It also
reduce employee turnover and maintain loyalty of customer to work effectively to provide
quality services to its customers.
Professional and Competence skill in Flight Centre
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