Professional Identity and Practice

Professional Identity and
Practice

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PROJECT 1 .....................................................................................................................................1
LO1 AND LO2 ...............................................................................................................................1
1.Introduction to project ........................................................................................................1
2.Key benefits of on going professional development for different stakeholders..................2
3.Inspection and evaluation of professional employer expectation of skills and competencies 3
4.Assessment and evaluation of own skills by using SWOT analysis...................................4
5.Range of learning theories and approaches.........................................................................6
6.Critical evaluation...............................................................................................................7
7.Conclusion...........................................................................................................................7
PROJECT 2 .....................................................................................................................................7
LO3 and LO4...................................................................................................................................7
1.Format of professional development plan...........................................................................7
2.Construction of comprehensive development plan.............................................................8
3.Job interview for managerial position ................................................................................9
4.Reflection of interview process ........................................................................................10
5.Conclusion.........................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Skills represent the learned behaviour and abilities the are necessary for achieving
relevant career development and growth. Professional identity represent one's values, beliefs and
attitudes, experience and motives through which a person define themselves in their anticipated
or current professional life (Williams, Guglietti and Haney, 2018). Self assessment of skills
enhance the level of professional identity and performance of individual through making them
more responsible for their learning and also reflect their own learning process and develop better
judgemental skills. The organisation selected for this project is Inter-continental Hotels and
Resorts which is a well known hotel brand of UK. This report consists of importance of on going
professional development and self directed learning and also include assessment of self skills and
competences approaches. Beside this, it also include a professional development plan and a
range of service industry and transferable skills for a job application.
PROJECT 1
LO1 AND LO2
1.Introduction to project
Professional identity shows one's own prescription and attitude towards their profession
and career. For making a right choice regarding one's profession and career plan self assessment
of skill is most suitable as it make an individual aware about its own strength and weakness so
that a job or profession best suited with their capabilities and interest can be adopted (Cruess,
Cruess and Steinert, 2019).
For this project organisation selected is Inter-continental hotels and resort which was
founded in 1946 and is one of the well known hotel group of UK. The headquarter of this hotel is
in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom and having more than 200 hotels worldwide. As the
competition is increasing in hospitality/ tourism sector it become necessary for all individual
who wants a career in hospitality sector to improve their skills and competencies and self
assessment of skill is also necessary to become aware about one's capabilities and weakness so
that steps can be taken to overcome weakness. Thus, this part of assignment is focused on
benefits of on going professional development and also investigate the professional expectations
of skills and competencies for managerial position.
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