Professional Development Plan and Interview Process

Professional Development
Plan and Interview Process
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................3
P5 Professional Development plan.........................................................................................3
Task 4...............................................................................................................................................5
P6 Job Interview.....................................................................................................................5
P7 Key strength and weaknesses of applied interview process..............................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7
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Introduction
Every person has certain aims and targets that they set to achieve in life. It could be some
personal target or professional target. Professional targets generally are around some designation
that the person aims or some other professional developments such as increasing income,
learning new skills, setting up a business, etc. Such targets become easy when a person prepares
a structured professional development plan that helps individual identify own skills and required
strategies (Anghel-Vlad, 2018). This report is prepared with the target of developing professional
development plan for achieving general manager position in Hotel Holiday Inn, London. Holiday
Inn is a British-owned American brand of hotels. A step by step and well-structured plan for the
same target is prepared below. Also, presented below is observation of the managerial interview
undertaken at Holiday Inn for lower managerial position which would serve as a stepping stone
to achieve ultimate target.
Task 3
P5 Professional Development plan
A professional development plan is a roadmap containing a list of actionable steps, skills and
knowledge that could help a person reach their aspired stage in career and life to achieve
professional targets ( Johnson and Chaudhuri, 2019). A professional development plan to achieve
the targeted managerial position at Hotel Holiday Inn follows through below mentioned steps:
 Self-Assessment – This step involves self-evaluation of one’s own interests and
skills according to the target or aimed position. I am interested in achieving
managerial position at Hotel Holiday Inn and I fairly believe that I possess sound
technical and soft skills required for that position. It is a leadership role and I
possess leadership quality as I have good communication skills, interpersonal
skills, team building skills, financial skills, customer service skills, technological
skills, etc. and I’m willing and working to become exceptional in these skills.
 Goals – This step involves setting up of SMART goals that will make the target
structured and trackable. It helps in prioritizing and achieving them one by one.
Specific – I want to achieve general manager position at Hotel Holiday Inn London.
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