EDEXCEL HND BTECH: Work-Based Experience Report for First Choice

This report details a student's work-based experience within the tourism sector, specifically focusing on First Choice, a UK-based company. The report begins with an introduction to the importance of work experience in today's competitive environment and outlines the student's objectives, which include researching suitable organizations and securing a placement. Task 1 focuses on the research and evaluation of potential companies, the negotiation process with supervisors, and the recognition of business constraints. Task 2 involves agreeing on and prioritizing tasks, producing a work plan, and analyzing the benefits of proposed activities. Task 3 covers fulfilling placement requirements, producing records, revising plans, and making suggestions for improvements. Task 4 addresses monitoring progress, evaluating performance, analyzing learning outcomes, and making recommendations for enhancement. The student aims to gain practical knowledge of HR roles, particularly recruitment and selection, and to understand the dynamics of the tourism industry, including the challenges of workload and training within the organization.

Work-Based Experience

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Research and evaluation of suitable organisations that provides industry experience.........1
1.2 Negotiating with work and academic supervisors a proposal for work experience..............2
1.3 Recognising the business constraints on the offered work experience by considering
possible limitations......................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Agreeing and prioritizing tasks and responsibilities involved in the work experience.........3
2.2 Producing a plan for the work experience.............................................................................4
2.3 Analysing the benefits of the proposed activities to the business and the learners...............7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
3.1 Fulfilling specified requirements of placement conforming to all related codes of practice7
3.2 Producing systematic record of the work undertaken...........................................................8
3.3 Revising the initial plans.......................................................................................................9
3.4 Making suggestions for improvements and reviewing these with appropriate supervisor. 10
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11
4.1 Monitoring progress against original proposal...................................................................11
4.2 Evaluating the quality of own performance........................................................................11
4.3 Analysing the learning that has taken place during the work experience with suitable
examples....................................................................................................................................12
4.4 Making recommendations on how the experience could have been enhanced...................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Work based experience in today's competitive environment is referred as a significant
preposition of learning. This is where the scholars are mostly indulged with such vital adoption
in their lives that renders them enormous stature of grasping some requisite cognition of working
into a desirable manner. Many organisations also provide a relevant opportunity of participating
in such work based programs. This is where the fresher are mainly being hired as interns to work
for which they get stipends. It is basically low range of wages paid to them where they are an
inexperienced individual who have opted to acquire the experience by commencing their work
on the hired position (Backé and et. al., 2012). This benefits both the individuals and the
organisation where candidates gain both personal and professional learning of working at low
salary by the enterprise. This is however a beneficial concept for the firms where they get their
work done with a less disbursal of payment to such employees. The below report is based upon a
similar conception of work based experience in travel and tourism sector. One of the most
renowned entities of UK named First Choice has been taken into consideration in the present
study.
TASK 1
My name is Peter John. I am presently into my final year of EDEXCEL HND, BTECH in
tours and travels subject. However, after a successful completion of my program, I would like to
join a similarly natured industry where I can further pursue my career. I have therefore carried a
self assessment procedure where I have researched about some organisations that provides a
work based experience. This will be significantly helpful for me, if I would be able to perform
with them, along with my continual sessions of education.
TASK 1
My name is Peter John. I am presently in my final year of EDEXCEL HND, BTECH in
tours and travels subject. However, after a successful completion of my program, I would like to
join a similarly natured industry where I can further pursue my career. I have therefore carried a
self assessment procedure where I have researched about some organisations that provide a work
based experience (Boud, Cohen and Sampson, 2014). This will be significantly helpful for me if
I would be able to perform with them along with my continual sessions of education.
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1.1 Research and evaluation of suitable organisations that provide industry experience
For research and evaluation, I have opted for both the sources of primary and secondary
research work to find out the most suitable firms of tours and travels in UK. Here, primary
method of researcher has rendered me a vital sense of refereeing to my colleagues and peers who
have suggested me some commendable names. However, I have together gone for a secondary
measure of researching at my own level where I have opted to use some eminent resources of
internet (Chen, 2014). Social media and official websites of all existent tour operators have
enormously aided me into it. Both primary and secondary base of enquiring have cogitated me
about a popular tour organisation, First Choice in UK which is famously known for its leading
recognition in the market.
First Choice was thus considered to be the best suited organisation for me where I can
successfully fulfil my hope of positioning on the profile of HR manager in the future. This firm
is however selected by me for a specific ground of their outstanding services to their clients and
customers where they together refer their workforce as the most prominent asset of their
organisation. I was together impressed by their varied range of functionalities where they mainly
refer to work in dynamic culture of working with the people who belongs to distinct cultural
facets (Grimm and Railsback, 2013). This is definitely a benefited consideration for me where I
can epochally raise my future career prospective. They however designate the employees with a
proficient background of their education where such assistance from professionals will largely
serve me to acquire a coveted state of cognition for working in such dynamic industry.
1.2 Negotiating with work and academic supervisors for proposal of work experience
This is where I am primarily responsible to convince the supervisor party of First Choice
to render me a chance of working with them. However, it is a slight influential task where I have
to comply with certain requisite measures of convincing them into a reliable manner. It will be
however done with a relevant assistance of my senior bodies in the college who have primarily
meditated me to opt for this particular organisation. According to this, I have subsequently
carried out my secondary research work and found the same (Hagger, Mcintyre and Wilkin,
2013). Therefore, with a principle aid of my superior bodies like tutor and peers, I will acquire an
applicable contact number of supervisory body in First Choice which refers to such hiring of
individuals.
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Once after interacting with the respective personnel of cited entity with a direct approach,
I will communicate him about my passionate intent and will of joining them. Also, I will make a
proposal of positioning me on the profile of Executive HR Assistant where I can grab some
significant knowledge of working into a pragmatic environment (Judge and et. al., 2014). It will
genuinely be on the basis of my Curriculum Vitae (CV) and other required document where I can
together present my degree of Human Resource Management as my specialised arena of
education. Moreover, I will be using a direct source of mailing the superior body of First Choice
with a prior stature of acknowledging him via a telephonic conversation for referring to the
submitted documentations.
1.3 Recognising business constraints on the offered work experience by considering possible
limitations
This is with reference to define about some applicable constraints of working at the
proposed position in First Choice as an intern. A diminished stature of training and development
to the new joiners due to high peak of workload is referred as the foremost consideration of
restraint in the selected business. It is thus with a relative aspect where such disposition of
workload will directly put an impact in my aspiration of learning (Koenigsberger and Tlusty,
2016). This is mainly due to huge pressure of work on my senior officials who will be resultantly
unable to attend me into a requisite manner.
As a result to this my learning acquisition will be directly hampered where I will also be
working with a hesitant approach of clarifying any of my originated doubts. However, even on
asking my raised doubts to the assistant bodies, they will be highly impotent in referring to it. A
deficient imposition of training and development will together affect another vital existence of
working in the defined policies and criteria of working in the organisation (Kolodner, 2014).
This is referred as the most influential trauma of acquisition for the new joiners like us where we
might be working with a susceptible mind of working with a confused state where we won't be
able to judge between the accurate and erroneous enforcement of tasking.
TASK 2
2.1 Agreeing and prioritizing tasks and responsibilities involved in the work experience
This is with a prior assistance of my work supervisor where I have also implicated a time
management grid for it. It is where an HR personnel is abided by numerous responsibilities into
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the organisation along with a significant practice of hieing individuals at almost all
organisational level (McMillan, 2013). They are also required to adhere by the compliance
prospectives of an enterprise that together refers to their vital procedure of recruitment and
selection. This is where the HR manager of First Choice duly implements the procedures of
human resource management (HRM) that exists with some vital applications of handling the
personnel's into a contemporary format. It thus includes the tactics of training and developmental
sessions for the employees appointed in First Choice along with some effective strategies of
keeping them motivated all the time.
It is thence with a primary responsibility of the HR manager of the cited entity to detect
such need base situation of arranging such liable drilling sessions for the workforce. Induction
training also plays a momentous role into the organisation where the new joiners are primarily
required to acknowledge about the predefined structure and culture of the enterprise. In addition
to which, assumption of salaries and wages are together referred to another foremost cogitation
of an HR personnel (Rodríguez-Mañas and et.al., 2013). Thus, I have framed an accordant
structure of certain salient outlooks of an HR by measuring all such need base aspects of this
particular profile, as mentioned below-
Urgent Non Urgent
Important Hiring candidates Developmental programs
Non-Important Assumption of salaries Retention activities
This is where I have fundamentally enforced the time management grid to precisely
segregate the leading acquisitions that I want to gain from my internship. It is where I have
firstly prioritized a foremost activity of hiring individuals. This is where I will hereby refer to
learn some applicable tactics of recruiting the candidates with a relative cognition of positioning
them at the most suitable position into the firm. It is referred to the most important direction to
an HR where they are connotatively subjected to make an apt number of hirings into the entity
(Rubin and Babbie, 2016). This specific goal is with some other related acts of job description
and person specification that largely assist into the entire process of selection. However, wage
assumption is also a belonging portion of the above conferred tactics of recruitment and
selection, where the hired individuals should be offered as per their delegated obligations at the
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workplace. Timely arrangement of developmental sessions along with conducting some
motivational activities into the organisation is referred to yet another critical objectives of
learning where I have prioritized them at a subsequent part.
2.2 Producing a plan for the work experience
The below referred plan is mainly to accumulate the above referred plans of learning,
delineated as-
Planned tasks Date of reviewing Expected Outputs as
mentioned by the Supervisor
Hiring Procedures:
This is with reference to learn the
processes of recruitment and selection
(R&S) in First Choice with some below
defined steps-
 Designing the vacant position
with its vital responsibilities that
are needed to carried out by the
hired candidate is a foremost
responsibility of an HR (Bailey,
2014). Thus, person specification
is also a related part for
enumerating the proficiency of
the individual who will be
positioned into the ascertained
profile.
 This is subsequently followed by
some broadcasting activities to
acknowledge about the vacancy
to the prospect individuals via
advertisement into some leading
newspapers and magazines.
Within 1 month A vital anticipated concern of
my supervisor is to primarily
learn some relatively
prominent measures of hiring
the individuals where next
time I should together put my
own efforts.
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 Evaluation of resumes received
from the interested candidates is
the next subsequent part
(Dragoni and et.al., 2011). This
is further carried by contacting
the potent applicants on the basis
of their assessed skills and
abilities for performing the task
responsibilities.
 This is eventually concluded by
interviewing the entitled
individuals with some varied
measures of scrutinizing their
knowledge.
Wage Assumptions:
It is relational part of the above defined
acts of job description and person
specification that cognitively assist the
HR manager to offer a valid proposal of
salaries to the hired candidates.
Within 3 months This is where my superior
body vitally expects me to
learn about some critical facets
of fixing the salaries of the
hired individuals (Brinkmann,
2014). It is where I will often
have to refer convincing the
efficient candidates to work at
a moderate payment of salary.
Training and Development Sessions:
This is with reference to arrange some
liable drill sessions for the appointed
workforce where the newly joined
personnels are also required to give a
valid session of induction (Gruenewald
and Smith, 2014). It is basically to
Within 6 months It is where my supervisor
wants me to make a significant
detection of training programs
into the organisation. This is
where I am myself required to
detect such requisitions by
together ascertaining the
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acknowledge them about the delineated
statures of working into the cited entity.
This will also include a fine
demonstration of some related policies
of leave and other relational conceptions
of work of timings, etc.
developmental area.
Motivational Activities:
It is referred to the most advanced
edition of HRM where the HR
personnels into the organisation are
significantly responsible to entail some
liable methods of motivating the staff
members. It is mainly to gratify the
appreciable performers with some
additive content of reward them. An
effective reward system by including
both means of monetary and non
financial is referred to give some
considerable outcomes of enhancement.
This is where my superior
body want me to discover
some innovated tactics of
rewarding the employees as a
way of appreciating their
commendable performance
(Jain and et.al., 2013). This
method should together give a
prior deliberation of
performing well to the other
appointed personnels as well,
with a gratified sense to the
awarded employees.
2.3 Analysing the benefits of the proposed activities to the business and the learners
This is with reference to state about some vital benefits of such work-based experience to
both he organisation and the individual who is refereeing to attempt it. Therefore, on relating it to
my own scenario, where I have presently got an appointment of working as an intern into the HR
department of First Choice, I can significantly associate it with some vitally benefited factors to
me and the enterprise (O'Grady, 2014). This is where I am acquiring a practical sense of working
into the relational aspects of HRM where I eventually want to build up a progressive career of
mine. It will thus serve me into the subsequent entities where in future I am refereeing to work
on a permanent basis. In addition to this, the firm is together benefited with an impulsive ground
of lowered operational cost where the interns are generality being hired at a minimised payment
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of wages. However, the individuals are hereby performing the same tasks as done by the
permanently hired individuals that is mainly to acquire a practical sense of working that will
directly benefit them into the upcoming opportunities of work.
TASK 3
3.1 Fulfilling specified requirements of placement conforming to all related codes of practice
This is with reference to state about a legitimate form of proceeding the work of First
Choice where the HR is equivalently responsible for it under their vital functions of adhering to
the compliance. It is where I have thus identified that my supervisory body rigorously follows all
legal compliance approach of operating the firm. This is together reflected into their hiring
procedures where they implement a non discriminative formulation of recruiting the individuals
(Stephenson and Yorke, 2013). It is where the candidates are purely being selected on the basis
of their professional attributes where they do not refer to any given references by the applicants.
It is with yet another statutory enforcement of all legislative enactments by the UK government
where they have framed some crucial acts of equality and health and safety, etc.
This is where the Equality Act strictly recommends the entities to work with a non
discriminative outlook where all personnels should have given an equal opportunity of
performance. It has basically addressed a discriminative outlook towards caste, religion, colour
or appearance and disability, etc. First Choice thus works with a fine adherence of all such
binding rules and regulations of law where they significantly believe to completely obstruct any
such implementation at their workplace (Work based experience, 2015). It is with yet another
cautious approach for the employees of the cited entity where they are being rendered some
amenable benefits of health and safety. This is where each and every personnel into the quoted
firm is affiliated to a health insurance with some other related approaches for maintaining a safe
and secured surrounding of tasking at the workplace.
3.2 Producing systematic record of the work undertaken
It is where I have engrossed my vital learnings into some primitively utilised tools like
diary, logbook, portfolio and spreadsheets, etc. This is where my diary and log book my two
main handy tools into which I have basically noted down my initial learnings into the
organisation. The diary have sided me to jot down the applicable policies and procedures of
working in First Choice where we all are required to pursue some predefined rules and
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