Professional Identity and Practice

Professional Identity
and Practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
P1) Understand all the benefits of on going professional development for various stakeholders
in an industry..........................................................................................................................1
P2) Investigating professional employer expectations of competence and skills in an business
associates. ..............................................................................................................................2
An investigation of critical evaluation of own skills and competence for a job role. ..........3
LO2..................................................................................................................................................4
P3) Self evaluation of own abilities and competence for a job role. .....................................4
P4) Range of approaches and learning theories used for professional and personal
development processes...........................................................................................................6
LO3..................................................................................................................................................7
P5) Frame a PDP to uplift the competence and skills within a particular area. ....................7
LO4................................................................................................................................................10
P6) Conduct a job interview for a suitable service industry role. .......................................10
P7) Review the strengths and weaknesses of the interview held. .......................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Professional identity and practices can be explained as a important for single in
personality with main aim to upgrade prolonged term job development. It Includes various
competence, skills and potential to search out certain steps to overcome any kind of problems in
the near future. In today's world professional practices is very important to raise personal exposer
more higher towards the defined goals and objectives. Thomas cook Is a leading UK based travel
and Tourism. Thomas Cook Ltd. is the founder of the this organization. Firm services certain
services of subsidiaries is Thomas Cook Insurance Services Ltd. and many more. It serves
certain distinguished services to it's customers like, Visa, passport, Travel Insurance,
International and domestic Holidays etc. This report includes meaning of on continuous
professional development also focus on critical understanding on own skills and competence in
response to define a job role (Brooks, 2016). It also highlights process of interview and PDP so
that own skills and competence can be overcome. Critical evaluation will be done on
distinguished learning theories and approaches.
LO1
P1)
Continuous development process is a huge concept, by which individual career growth
can be developed by enhancing various abilities, skills and potentials for effective presentation.
In other words it can be explained as Continuous process is a way to search path to potential
needs and acquire it for single along with securing it's full fledged career path. Self learning and
on-going learning both are related conception which aims towards motivating skills, data and
knowledge. In case of continuous learning certain skills and competence can be adopted either
on the job or as a course. Whereas, self directed learning is a oriented process, in that individual
learn things by their inner motivation or by self efforts within the set time duration. In travel and
tourism continuous development is important to solve customers issues as to manage customers
emerging needs. On- going development role is to focus towards uplifting individuals skills and
competence for longer time duration. Additionally. Self directed learning has been contributing
to develop person's ability and competence accordingly so, that set goals can be achieved by
potential people and productive outcomes can be seen as well (Bukor, 2015). Along with needs,
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benefits and roles this need to search out in both employer and employees which is discussed as
follows:
Employer's: On going development is essential for a person as to fulfill enterprise
demands and employer's curiosity towards net income so that development and expansion be
done in the global market. Employer is one who is hungry about an worker who carries certain
capabilities, traits and power to achieve the set goals of business in the near future. Stakeholders
has keen interest in continuous development process for an individuals. If the existing
employee's is more concentrated towards their own development skills and competence, it will
turn out to be advantages for stakeholders interest to hold back with an business for more coming
years.
Employees: Continuous development process is very helpful to search out an single
from learning so as to succeed in career growth and development. Also asses the improvement
based act for self grandness and evaluation. The main welfare of the this is finding out mission
and vision so, that sharing to business career growth and expansion can be done smoothly.
Voluntary initiative will proves to be effective in terms of business perspectives.
I am good in communication skills and problem solving skills which is needed for the
post of Training and development administrator in an organization. Having good communication
skills will help in interact with the employees easily. By this I will be able to provide them best
training. Having the skills and competencies like problem solving will me help in solving the
grievances of the employees easily. By this I will be able to retain workers for longer time
duration in the working premises.
P2)
Employer expectations are raising at a tremendous scale in context of employee's
abilities, skills and competence so that responsibilities of job can be fulfilled effectively (Carrillo
and Vilar, 2015). Due to the continuous increasing functions and operations aspects the demand
of employer for it's employee's skills and capabilities are touching the sky. Employer not only
have higher level of expectations from it's employee's as well wants additional and basic skills
such as analytical,communication and negotiation so that job roles can be performed more
effectively and efficiently. In case of Thomas Cook, the job role of a person is training and
development executive. In this the person needs to perform training and development activities
like agreeing employees to attend training sessions as well prepare training programmes as a blue
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