Professional Identity and Practice

Professional Identity
and Practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Explore the importance of on-going professional development and self-directed learning to
enhance professional identity and career opportunities...................................................................3
An evaluation of the key benefits and importance of on-going professional development...3
An investigation into the competences and skills required and expected by employers........4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
Assessing own competences, skills and the different learning and development approaches.........6
Critical evaluation of own abilities, competences and skills..................................................6
Range of learning new theories and approaches....................................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
Design a Professional Development Plan, within a specific work context......................................9
Analyse Personal Skill Audit..................................................................................................9
Training and Learning Courses undertaken over the past years in Brewers Fayre..............12
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................13
Demonstrate the role of service Industry and transferrable skills for the job application.............13
Effective CV.........................................................................................................................13
Interview Process and Preparation.......................................................................................14
Generating Evidence and Skills............................................................................................15
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Professional identity and practice could be referred as the process that assists people to
enhance, develop and grow their knowledge and skills so that they could achieve their objectives
and goals in the right manner. For a person professional identity is very significant because it
assists in building great career and acquiring great standard of life. Improved and enhanced
knowledge takes an individual to be satisfied towards job role and duties and also helps in
establishing career (Goryushkina and et. al., 2019). The current report is related with
understanding different dimensions of professional identity and roots in which it could be
enhanced by a person for executing job role in effective and efficient manner. The chosen
organization in the present report is Brewers Fayre, it is Restaurant Company and has 161
locations across the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1979 and headquarters
located in Dunstable, United Kingdom. Hospitality manager is selected as job role for the project
report. This restaurant has great number of skilled employees that are constantly working for
performing different business operations to attain objectives of the company.
TASK 1
Explore the importance of on-going professional development and self-directed
learning to enhance professional identity and career opportunities
An evaluation of the key benefits and importance of on-going professional development
Professional development is defined as procedure that is considered as significant and
crucial for all the parties that are related to each other and using opportunities through which
experience and requirements of different individuals could be enhanced. It could be understood
as methodology of learning that inspires and encourages a person to organize its professional
credentials in updated manner. In context of Brewers Fayre, the pub restaurant is having large
number of stakeholders that could have great benefits by executing professional development
program in the workplace (Konovalova and et. al., 2018). Some of the benefits that are attained
by different stakeholders are explained below in detail:
Employer benefits

In the process of professional development employers are the people who have direct link
because they are responsible for arranging and organizing the same. Some of the benefits that are
enjoyed by employer of Brewers Fayre are:
Skilled employees
As the pub restaurant comes under service industry employees are known as frontier of
the organization and with the professional development process employers have workforce that
are efficient towards meeting objectives in decided manner.
Employee engagement with the help of developmental opportunities
Employee engagement is one of the important aspects of the company that assists in great
communication between employees. Employee engagement is the way for employers for enhanc-
ing employee’s contribution towards Brewers Fayre.
Brand image of the organization
Brand image is necessary for every organization because it helps in attracting customers
available in the market. Professional development is properly executed in the Brewers Fayre that
creates benefit for employers as they enhance their operations to gain maximum market share
than competitors.
Employee benefits
It is said that employees are the asset of every organization because they carry out every
operational activity in an appropriate manner. Brewers Fayre is focused towards their employees
so that every benefit could be taken out from them. Some of the benefits that are provided to em-
ployees by using development process are:
Intrinsic motivation
With the assistance of ongoing professional development employees are able to gain in-
trinsic motivation that ultimately encourages them to increase their employability skills. With
this motivation, workforce performs their work in appropriate manner and learns about promi-
nent skills that are necessary to develop.
Value addition for future employment
With the assistance of on-going professional development employees would be able to
learn about advanced skills and knowledge that could improve resume of employee in better di-
rection. This increases the chances of getting selection into higher company.
An investigation into the competences and skills required and expected by employers