Professional Identity and Practice

Professional Identity
and Practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
P1 Key benefits of on-going professional development for stakeholders in a company.......1
P2 Employer’s expectations of skills and competencies in a company.................................2
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................3
P3 Assessment of skill, ability and competency for the designation of Assistant Manager. .3
P4 Critique of learning theories associated with professional and personal enhancement....4
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................4
P5 Development plan.............................................................................................................4
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................5
P6 Job interview for the role of Assistant Manager...............................................................5
P7 Strength and weakness of interview process.....................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
With the increase in career evolution and employment opportunity is essential for an
individual to effectively understand value of competencies and skills expected by employers in
order to gain more competitive advancements (Kunrath, Cash and Kleinsmann, 2020). In this it
is essential for them to engage in the process of self assessment of the competencies as well as
skills with the application of different learning approaches and career plan in order to enhance
effectiveness of their career prospects (Hohenstein and Lévy-Tödter, 2020). This has been
evaluated that personal identity and practice act as most essential element for each and every
individual or professional through which they can conduct their skill evaluation and can further
enhance their effectiveness, competencies and knowledge in order to gain long term career
development advantages. Present report has been conducted on Thomas Cook, this company
operate their business function as a multinational organisation operating their services in
hospitality industrial sector and engage in the functions related to travel and tourism by offering
high-quality facilities and services to consumers that ensure growth and development of
company on continuous manner. In this report formative discussion has been made on benefits of
ongoing professional development for complete stakeholders group along with expectation of
employers in terms of skills as well as competencies. Further in this report assessment of own
skill, competencies and ability is being included along with personal learning theories and
approaches. Lastly, job interview and development plan is been included in this report.
P1 Key benefits of on-going professional development for stakeholders in a company
Professional development is an essential and a systematic process through which
individual can evaluate their self competence, skill and potential and can further increase
efficiency of them in order to assure more prominent career growth. In addition to this it has
been identified that ongoing professional development is having significant capability to enrich
personality of an individual in order to maximize the growth opportunity (McColl, 2020). One of
the most important benefits of this process is that it allow individual and persuade them to
accomplish goal of their appropriate career and equipped themselves with efficient knowledge
and competence. Ongoing professional development assist career of an individual that allows
them to evaluate and analyse their need and demand for certain skill knowledge and competence.
Along with this it has been evaluated that ongoing professional development is having
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significant benefit for different stakeholder in organisation like employees and organisation
which is further been defined below:
For employees:
With the assistance of ongoing professional development employees those who are
performing their operations and functions in an organisation can facilitate themselves to enhance
efficiency of their performance as well as skills along with their efficiency in a workplace
structure (Kavanoz, 2020). In addition to this it also assist workforce of Thomas group to
accomplish their professional as well as personal goals in a well defined and effective manner in
proper time frame.
For Thomas Cook:
Ongoing professional development facilitates an entity to drive appropriate as well as
relevant outcome of personal and professional development out of their employees (Naumovska,
Zajac and Lee, 2020). Along with this, this process is having significant capability that allows
Thomas Cook to accomplish their corporate goals with great efficiency.
P2 Employer’s expectations of skills and competencies in a company
Main aim of a business organisation in industrial sector is to increase their business
efficiency profitability and productivity. In order to accomplish their goal Thomas Cook
manager is mainly aim towards recruiting potential and skilled employee those who are having
significant capability to satisfy needs and demands of consumers by influencing their purchasing
decision as to make them loyal towards entity (Chan, Cheung and Chan, 2020). Tourism industry
within hospitality sector is having most important purpose which is to fulfil basic and luxury
needs of their consumers for this different type of employee’s roles like room cleaning, food
services, room services etc are included. Further this has been evaluated that organisation is
having certain form of expectations from employees those who are hired in order to enhance
satisfaction level of customers towards entity in order to increase overall base of consumers at
the same time. Mentioned below some form of competencies as well as core skills that are being
expected by Thomas Cook is being defined below:
Willingness to learn:
It is one of the most important and essential expectation of Thomas Cook employer in
which they are emphasising upon those employees who are adaptable in nature and willing to
learn new things on continuous manner without any force. As this allow entity to accomplish
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