Unit 3 - Professional Identity and Practice

Professional
Identity and
Practice

Table of Content
• Introduction
• Job interview for a suitable service industry role
• Key strengths and weaknesses of face to face interview process
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
Interview is considered as formal meeting at which interviewer ask questions with
interviewee in order to understand and evaluate their skills, abilities and capabilities. This
will help interviewer in understanding for which job role applicants is suitable.
Organization selected for this presentation is Holiday Inn which is founded by Kemmons
Wilson in year 1952. Its head office is located in Denham, Buckinghamshire, United
Kingdom.

Job interview for a suitable service industry
role
Job interview is considered as process in which conversation is conducted among the job
applicant and representative of company who is conducted particular activity in order to
assess the skills, abilities and knowledge of applicant. Through this employer also able to
determine whether particular applicant is appropriate for specific job role or not.

Cont.…
Below job interview for Operational Manager for Holiday Inn is given:-
• Stage 1: Introduction
• Stage 2: Small Talk
• Stage 3: Information Gathering
• Stage 4: Question and Answer
• Stage 5: Wrapping up

Key strengths and weaknesses of face to
face interview process
Strengths
• Through this Holiday Inn interviewer able to gather in depth collect information and
understanding about the candidate which help them in selection stage.
• By conducting Face to Face interview respective company interviewer able to analyse
body language as well as facial expression in proper manner that help in understanding
nature of person.

Cont.…
Weaknesses
• Face to face interview is most time consuming method which may also impact on
Holiday Inn operations.
• For respective company, Face to face interview can be expensive as well as their will be
high chance that interviewer can be biased.

Conclusion
By conducting above mentioned points it can be summarise that through interview session a
company able to select most appropriate candidate for the specific job role. For conducting
interview process conduct need to determine best one for them because there are various
interview procedure such as face to face, telephonic, sequential, panel etc..

References
• Sabanciogullari, S. and Dogan, S., 2015. Relationship between job satisfaction,
professional identity and intention to leave the profession among nurses in
Turkey. Journal of Nursing Management. 23(8). pp.1076-1085.
• Salifu, I. and Agbenyega, J. S., 2016. Teacher motivation and identity formation: Issues
affecting professional practice. MIER Journal of Educational Studies, Trends and
Practices. 3(1).

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