Professional Career Development Portfolio: Bartending Career Goals

This project is a comprehensive portfolio focusing on the professional career development of a bartender. It begins with an introduction to the importance of employability skills and setting both short-term and long-term career goals, such as becoming a hotel owner. The portfolio explores potential roles within the bartending profession, emphasizing the significance of communication and interpersonal skills, and the importance of adaptability. It includes a Belbin test to assess team roles and contributions, followed by a discussion on effective participation in meetings and team contributions. The project then delves into research and learning styles, including both quantitative and qualitative research methods, and identifies various learning styles. A SWOT analysis is conducted to evaluate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The project also covers key skills required for bartenders, utilizing feedback for improvement, and includes a personal development plan to outline strategies for career advancement. The conclusion summarizes the key takeaways and findings, and references are provided to support the information presented.

Professional
Career
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Short and long term goals...........................................................................................................1
Potential roles and their suitability..............................................................................................2
Belbing Test................................................................................................................................3
Participating in meeting/being an effective team contributor.....................................................4
Research and learning style.........................................................................................................5
SWOT Analysis..........................................................................................................................6
Key Skills required......................................................................................................................8
Utilising feedback for moving forward.......................................................................................9
360 Review..................................................................................................................................9
Personal Development Plan......................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Professional career development essential for every type of industries and it will help to
develop employability skills in efficient manner. The portfolio is related to professional career
development into bar ender profession (Arthur, 2016). In the profession of bartender required to
motivation to achieve their goal. Main job satisfaction encourages for strong career development,
satisfactory compensation, and competent working and living conditions. To continue in
bartender require effectual employability skills that can be defined as transferable skills. It is
required fir every individual who wants to growth and development their professional career and
get help in good technical understanding and subject knowledge. Employment are the
responsibilities and benefits of a job as agreed upon by an employer as well as employee at the
time of hiring. In simple words, it is defined as contract where one person, the staff member
agrees to present their work for another, the employers. After recruitment required employability
skills that can help to get promotion in their career and become eligible for good post.
Professionalism is a belief system that is defined about how best to arrange and deliver
health care. In the reference of bartender required effective professional skills that will help to
easily handle customers and provide good services. It is important because it is promoting
customer interest and provided by teams of professionals who need to communicate well,
respecting the principles of honesty, regard for others, privacy and duty for their actions. In
present time for bartender need of professional people who good experience and enhance their
employability skills. There are setting employment goals about short and long term vision,
potential roles, and their suitability. In this portfolio demonstrate an understanding of the skills
and knowledge which contribute toward working effectively. An understanding of personal
strengths and areas for further development as well as introducing their employment goals.
Additionally, there are producing personal action plan/development plan (Smalley and Smith,
2017).
Short and long term goals
My long term goals are excellent reasons and opportunities and they help me in see future
in few years. In this career my long term goal is become own boss in a hotel. To enhance my
employability goals it is important to focus on my skills and improve as per requirement. On the
basis of these goals a bartender prepare effective strategy and provide their best regarding their
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work. There is focused on the weakness to reduce to effective manner because it become reason
of barrier in career development (Crimmins, Oprescu and Nash, 2017).
My short term goal to become supervisor then manager in hotel to develop their career in
hotel management. Due to get job satisfaction motivate for the high post and help to set
employability goals. On the daily routine basis set task and complete in certain period of time.
These are meets everyday and consist of daily routine activities. It is directly connected with
employability goals and intent to go back in hotel management. Work in hotel is passion for me
and wants to create career in hospitality sector.
Potential roles and their suitability
In the sector of bartender, it is essential to have employability skills as well as academic
skills due to handle customers effectively. For bartender role required hotel management course
that help to gain more confidence. It will help them to develop their key skills which is important
for academic as well as practical in hotel. Through hotel management course I will find out
various roles such as supervisor, manager, chef and own boss. I am fascinated with my work and
wants to growth for career development.
The code of conduct provides right direction regarding to their work and influence to
work together and maintain the highest ethical standards in hospitality business. Every hotel
believe on the honesty, integrity as well as on fair play are essential assets in business. Through
code of conduct set the standard of behaviour expected from the staff members and guidelines to
handle several situations. Employability skills are important for Bartender in hotel. The success
of the jobs depend on the soft skills that is required to communicate with customers. The benefits
of having bartender into hotel with strong soft skills consist of better customer service, improved
communication and team integration, stronger relationship and improved efficiency (Davies,
Edgar and Debenham, 2016). There are defined 6C's of bartender regarding to their work -
 Communication skills – As a bartender role it is very important to interact with different
types of customers. In big hotel required to balance their as per requirement and
excellence communication attract to customers.
 Conflict Resolution – It is occurred when change happen and opinion differ. A bartender
have ability to understand reason of conflicts and with their abilities sort out conflicts in
between management and also in between customers.
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 Commander in chief leadership – Strong leadership skills to carry out responsibility for
develop a supportive and motivating work environment.
 Critical thinking – It is essential for a hotel bartender due to understand methodically,
plan of action and cooperate make decision, sort out issues and adoptive innovation. A
hotel bartender have skills of critical thinking for increase skills and take steps to target
the problem for developing a solution.
 Clever interpersonal skills - Unlike communication skills, interpersonal skills are
essential in identifying and building a intentional team within their hotel department for a
hotel bartender. Through interpersonal skills create effective team to manage relationship
with customers (Durksen, Klassen and Daniels, 2017).
 Concise time and priority management – Executive hotel bartender with time and priority
management skills for develop productivity as well as efficiency. For Administrative
Hotel bartender, it is perfect to know what is pressing and essential. Through practices
and management techniques less stressed and more energy.
Belbing Test
Belbin's theory is related with the team and the requirement of every team to have access
to each of nine elements that build up strong crew. On the basis of this theory teams can acquire
the great performances. Belbin is mainly related to nature at work place and it can be change of
improve. There are define about nine subdivisions are -
 Plant - It is outlined as a innovative individual with a strong fantasy and a good solution
to difficulties.
 Specialist – In this category defined those person who have extraordinary capacity and
provide unique ideas.
 Monitor evaluator – There is determined in the detail and sees correctly all the details,
good characteristics.
 Implementer – These types of person are disciplined and slower in their work so their
result come out later. They are not easily changes their working style.
 Shaper – People having respective factor are always open to new challenges (Eckert and
et.al, 2016).
 Completer finisher – These types of people cannot concentrated on the uncovering of
mistakes as well as omission.
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 Team worker – In the team working those people who have ability of coordination, calm,
peaceful, discreet, analyse, builds, averts friction.
 Coordinator – Individuals are adult, positive, a good administrator and good decision
making.
 Resource investigator – There is outlined that individuals have ability of passionate,
conversational, explores favourable circumtances.
In order to determine my personal skills in efficient way I conduct personal Beblin test
whose respect or outcome is given below:
Participating in meeting/being an effective team contributor
The term of team is defined as a structure where is all members work together and
provide work according to their skills and efficiency. In the context of hospitality sector focus on
the work of the team where people conduct procedure in dynamic manner and change as per
requirement. There are appointing a leader who will tackle and direct regarding to their work. It
is helpful for every bartenders because it can help learn new things in group (Fallatah and
Laschinger, 2016). There are including different professionals who have different skills and learn
new things regarding to work. As a result there are improving work and achieve their short term
and long term goals. The activity of a team known as a element that facilitates activity among
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various team participants. During to work in a team, there are focused on team members and
know about their behavioural perspective and a manner to develop effective team actions. The
benefits of the team that every person work as per their interest and provide authority regarding
to work. Every person contribute their activity at work place as per requirement.
Research and learning style
To conduct research a researcher focus on different methods that can help to gather
information, empirical materials, ranging from the interview to direct measurement, to determine
of artefacts, documents and cultural records to utilise of each visual materials on the basis of
personal experience. The research into hotel can help to recognise people who want good drinks
so for this provide good quality of alcohol.
Quantitative Method: According to this method collect information into numbers and provide
priority to objective analysis, statistical or scientific research. It is helping to gathering
information through surveys, questionnaire and the control of previous analytical data to
measuring techniques. The main benefits are:
 For conduct set structured research apply this method and their instruments.
 After conducting research get result that is depended on the large sample sizes that are
representative of the population.
 This research study mainly based on the replicated or repeated, provided their high
reliability (Flory, 2016).
Qualitative Method: According to this method focused on the feelings, emotions are
depended on the speech, melody and other outcomes that cannot be analysed and measured.
After conductive research gather data based on the number or figures that can be measured or
quantified. The level of measurement can be -
 Normal
 Ordinal
Through this research from which place conduct and get information?
 There are collecting data from the primary resources (when we ask people, or we observe
things,)
 Also using secondary resources (when we used data already collected by somebody else
for another purpose like magazines, journals, websites.)
Primary Data collection methods -
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 Personal Interviews
 Direct Information
Learning Styles – There is identifying of seven learning styles and we are going to mention
them:
 Visual (spatial) when you prefer to take photos, to have images.
 Aural (sounds, noise) when you prefer voice and tone (Olsen, 2015).
 Verbal (linguistic) when you prefer to talk or to write
 Physical (kinesthetics) when you [prefer to feel, to touch
 Logical (numbers) when you prefer to count
 Social (relational) when you prefer to be a part of a team and you feel for example you
learn better with them than alone
 Solitary (singular) you feel more comfortable to work alone (Francis, 2017).
SWOT Analysis
The SWOT analysis related to internal activities of a person where defined about the
strength, weakness, opportunities and threats. Through this analysis a person know about
weakness an on the time improve it that will help in career development. The article set as per
the plan and action for the management of marketing plan in different variety due to connect
with the aim of a five point access to make the SWOT analysis work properly:
Strength Weakness
 My strength regarding to hospitality
sector is focus on continue learning and
apply different ideas.
 Good communication skill
 Creative
 Good behaviour and friendly
 Lack of patience
 Have not practical knowledge
 Less problem solving skill
 My weakness regarding hospitality
industry that become reason in my
growth that less technological
knowledge.
Opportunity Threat
 Learn new activities
 Uses skills and capabilities
 Increase competition
 Seasonal trends in hotel
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 Enhance knowledge and skills
 Enhance networking in respected area.
Through SWOT analysis about the interpersonal skills and weakness that will become
barrier in career development. It will help me in increasing decision with the help of strategy and
over come from the weakness (Fritsch, 2016). There are mainly focus on the opportunities that
will help to avoiding threat. Strength – After the analysis it is getting that I have strength of obverse different types
situation to learn new things. It will help me interact with new people and know about the
work. Along with I have friendly nature and behave every one with kind that is present in
specific manner in front of management. In different typical situation I will come with
new ideas and strategies that helps me tackle the situation and communicate in effective
manner. It is presenting my smartness and people like my views. Weakness – After conducting SWOT analysis it is understanding that I have various
weakness hat is not good for my progress. With the help of SWOT analysis easily
identify then work on it. My weakness are lack of patience regarding to work, effectively
does not take decision at the critical time. I have not problem solving skills that will
create problem in different situations. Opportunity – Through my strength and by improving my weakness I can obtain various
opportunities like get new areas for learning and able to enhance my skills as well as
knowledge. Along with this, intensify my weakness and focus on the professional
network in order to analysed my skills and capabilities in an efficient way (Jackson and
Wilton, 2016).
 Threat – There are identifying different threat which are face by me regarding to my
profession. It is require to identify those threat and aware for it. There are huge number of
competition so it may be became reason of failure. Along with another threat for me hotel
industry people visit in holidays seasons so many time face negative trends that will arise
due to did not have effective skills. I will not able to understand respective situation that
leads to huge losses.
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Key Skills required
The sector of hospitality is play essential role where is needed to have academic skills ,
more confidence and provide help to create their skills in reference to both academic and the
practical in hospitality industry (Van der Klink and et.al, 2017). All types of skills that is
required for reduce gap and provide feel better during to practice and study. There are several
skills that are needed for person in reference to being ready for employment at a certain place or
company. There are defined few skills that is required for the bartender - Potential roles and suitability – It is outlined as factors that is wanted by a person for
their effective skills and capabilities for operating a certain role in efficient way. Always
like to learn new things from different people and spend time with superiors. There are
important to operate different work as per the abilities am suitability of an individual. It is
happened due to get motivation and operate specific work in efficient way that leads to
accomplishment of goal properly. Participating in meeting/being an effective team contributor – The particular structure
set for all individuals who have same goals and they have synergy. In the context of
hospitality sector, it is beast way to work in a team where every one participate and
present their performance as per their skills (Jackson, 2017). The procedure is viewed as
a fluctuate one and consist of more professional and with different and additive
capabilities but having general goals. When it comes at the hotel that time focus on the
planning, determining and analysing the customers. During to work in team, there are
determined activities from the behavioural perspective and are a way to develop effective
team strategy with binary and common goals. Additionally, for work in team people learn
several things that will help to maintain their quality and skills. Utilising feedback – It is required for an individual to to accept feedback due to moving
forward. The term of feedback utilised in positive as well as negative manner to provide
information or criticism of an individual and activity. Most of the individuals use it for
the gather information to improve behaviour as well as current and future actions. For
instance when bartender provides services as er requirement of the customers. So many
customers provide feedback regarding services that will work for motivation and
improvement regarding their work (Johnston, Maggiori and Rossier, 2016).
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 Short and long term goals – It is important for an individuals who have skills as well as
capabilities to set their long term as well as long term goals. On the basis of these goals
they are preparing strategy and able to operate their work in efficient manner to bring out
proper quality in set period of time. My long term goals to become own boss in hotel and
it will help me to see in future in a few years and realize is in future.
Utilising feedback for moving forward
Utilising feedback for moving forward. The term of feedback mainly utilised to collect
information and criticism of an individual regarding to their activity as well as behaviours. The
group of individuals (bartenders) gather information regarding to their performance after that
improve their skills, behaviours and current and future actions. There is identified feedback
regarding to hotel services as per actions and behaviours basis. For instance, When the
employees are working in big hotel that time face different problems that time seniors support
them regarding to their work. As a result they are learning activities in bar and effectively serve
alcohol to customers with smile. In respect them they will feel motivated and work as per the
requirement many time they get feedback from the customer also from manager regarding their
work. Positive feedback help to motivate them and negative feedback help to improve behaviour
and skill. It is all about knowledge and skills and ability to take responsibilities in efficient
manner (Lauermann and König, 2016).
360 Review
It is outlined as a procedure that is selected by a company in reference to provide
feedback. According to this procedure, different types of individuals engage with this and
provide their views like subordinates, supervisor or manager, juniors, self employees and many
other. Furthermore, the particular process where an individual or employees get unrecognised an
confidential feedback from other staff members from an organisation where they are working.
This feedback provides on the overall performance basis and help to improve their performance
as per requirement. In simple words, the feedback form fill be the employees who have senior
post and way of filling form such as online and offline that is depended on the huge range of
workplace competencies (Malhotra, Smets and Morris, 2016). On the basis of their feedback they
are filling feedback question form. It is providing advantage to company in different way like
with the help of management has been developed as well as improve their team work in effective
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manner. It also help in create of accountability of an individual and it also focus on the career
growth in reference to staff members as per their skills and feedback.
Personal Development Plan
Personal development plan is continuing procedure that helps in improvement in certain
period of time. According to this plan develop strategy to remove weakness and set shorter
period of time such as 4 months, 6 months etc. In the general way it is considering as advisable
as well as action plan that is required to be followed in respect to reach their goals. After
following personal development plan a person effectively capable to intensify their strength that
help in operating working activities in efficient manner. With the help of this plan overcome
from the weakness can improve their personality regarding to working requirement. Individual
can grab opportunities as well as avoid threat in efficient way (Nota, Santilli and Soresi, 2016).
Personal development plan :-
Learning
Goal
Current
Compete
nce
Target
Competenc
e
Development
practices
Development
opportunities
Time
Period
Impatient 6 10 To improve my skills I
will focus on other
work and take classes
where provide tips to
stay calm. Many
company provides
conferences where
speaker provide
solution regarding to
problem. I can learn
through observing
other that how
patiently other tackle
situation in efficient
way.
After development
of this skill
effectively handle of
my customers
without any problem.
I will listen their talk
with calm mind and
serve drink as per
their requirement. It
will also satisfy them
through my efficient
services.
20 days
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