BUSN19024: Professional Employment Readiness Reflective Report

This document presents a reflective report on graduate business employment readiness, incorporating an informational interview and analysis of professional ethics. The report begins with a reflection on the author's readiness to undertake professional employment, informed by an online MBTI interview experience and previous placement in human resources. It critiques the MBTI assessment, appraises the value of postgraduate study and international experience, and analyzes the importance of ethics for professionals in the author's discipline. The report also includes details of an informational interview with a human resource manager, covering expectations of managers, problem-solving approaches, and definitions of success. The author reflects on the interview, discussing surprises, increased interest in the field, and existing skills. The report concludes with an action plan for professional development, focusing on expanding understanding of the profession, assisting stakeholders, and adhering to ethical best practices. The student document is available on Desklib, a platform providing study tools and resources for students.

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SECTION #1
Reflective Paper on Your Readiness to Undertake Professional Employment
Introduction
It is no doubt that reflection forms a critical part of social work and education.
Apparently, reflection is regarded as an important practice especially for those workers who are
in the place settings or rather in newly qualified social workers. In simple terms, reflection set
aside an opportunity of reviewing our decision as well as decision-making processes regarding a
certain profession. This paper proposes to discuss in details a reflection of my own experience
through an online interview test also known as the MBTI (Curbano, 2018, pp.301). While many
people may assume various aspects regarding their personal traits and their overall association
with others, such virtues shape personal career towards a certain professional. In this light, taking
an online MBTI interview is that big step that one may be yearning for in shaping one’s career
development. Primarily, I have always assumed myself to be a person who sets personal bar
and directions, however, I would not like to be challenged in any particular matter especially
those that I am confident in. nonetheless, I found the interview
Recruitment Process Used
I had previously managed to have done my placement with the human resource
department in one of the leading food retailing firm in Australia, and they had a system of
bringing in various new recruits to perform duties and responsibilities that always made the
company be in the forefront. Apart from performing our daily duties the company insisted on the
ethical culture of the whole institution and had good relations with the executives, managers, and
all the employees. Apparently, employees selection is no doubt one of the most essential
processes human resource managers have to go through given they have to look for a rather

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qualified set of employees who presumably can meet and fulfill the firm’s goals. Besides,
qualified employees are likely to make an organization successfully and ensure that it withstands
s the overall competitiveness of the global market. Notably, the human resource managers act as
the bridge between an organization and potential employees.
In essence, I currently work with Wal-Mart which is as well regarded to be a leading food
retailing company in Australia. During my first application for a position as an intern was
through the internet. Primarily, the company has had huge changes particularly in transforming
its operation to a digital experience. Additionally, the company uses the same technology
particularly in recruiting its workers (Lussier, 2018). This means that any person that intends to
apply for a job in Wal-Mart has to use online platform. During my time as an intern, I realized
that the company used various personal skills in form of communication where the firm hugely
advocated the use of personal referrals.
Critique of Your MBTI Type
During recruitment session in the online platform, the company used a sort of interview
that interacts with an individual on various personal aspects needed for a successful appointment.
Notably, there was an apparent application of the Myers-Briggs type indicator (MBTI) as a form
of personal inventory (Üsdiken, 2018, pp.171). Primarily, the overall purpose of this personal
inventory is to ensure that the theory of psychological types is simplified and used appropriately
in people’s lives. This is viable since people are known to be different and therefore are likely to
differ correspondingly. Noteworthy, this kind of test interview uses the four dichotomies in
dividing people. These dichotomies include introvert versus extrovert, intuitive versus sensory,
thinking versus feeling, and judging versus perceiving. In this light, the test tends to ultimately
divide people into 16 types based on the set of traits that they fall in. The main basis of this

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system especially when used by companies is that it asks the users various general questions in
which it will then define the personality of the end user.
I am not certainly new to MBTI test as I have done it over years and always found myself
coming out the same person. However, during my intern interview, I found out something about
myself. After doing the test, I was told that I was an INTJ (Truong, Laura, Shaw, 2018, pp.32).
To my understanding, this was only one letter off from the rather INFJ. I had to admit that I was
such a person given my judging nature and always preferred my live structured. This was
somehow true as most people of this nature were relative quite (introverted) and sometimes
focused to dig into various theories (intuitive) (Lesiuk, 2018). While these assumptions might
sometimes be true, I disagree with it in a substantive degree given that one just answers random
questions where some might be answered for the sake and not genuine.
Appraisal of the Value of Post Graduate Study and International Experience in Your
Discipline Area
Throughout my education, I have tried to be that person that stands out particularly in as
far as education is concerned. Having studied hospitality at Melbourne University in my
undergraduate degree, I had the ambition of doing my postgraduate in the same field (Azevedo &
Hawranik, 2018, pp. 265). Apparently, I am glad to have studied post graduate in the same field
and certainly appear among the best in our year. In essence, my international experience has
been fantastic having traveled in various countries such as England for delegation meetings
during my initial days at Wal-Mart. Primarily, this has shaped the destiny of my career has it
gifted me with a chance of meeting different people know how to interact with them (Ivana &
Ivan, 2018). This is useful in my career given that it involves meeting people each and every day
and therefore knowing how to interact with them provides the best chance of showing others

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what I can deliver.
Analysis of 'Why Ethics Are Important For Professionals in Your Discipline Area’
Professional ethics consist of the personal as well as the overall corporate standards of
behaviors by a given set of professionals in a certain firm. Given the type of customers
involvement that is considered in my profession, it is no doubt that professional ethics would be
something very important (Khan, 2018). Additionally, professional ethics are important in my
field as it provides room for teamwork, therefore, the customer is served in the shortest time
possible yet they receive high-quality services (Potgieter & Ferreira, 2018). Noteworthy,
professional ethics is important as it provides a rational pathway to decision making, therefore,
our company is always in tabs with the expected ethical standards required in any business
organization. Behaving ethically is an important part of maintaining the overall reputation of a
business. In case a business violates any of the ethical standards then it is likely to have a bad
reputation and therefore loses its customers. In this light, in case a worker fails to work ethically
in a business, he or she faces a chance of being fired for the interest of maintaining the reputation
of the job he or she operates for.
Conclusion
In a nutshell, it is evident that reflection of a particular experience is an essential part of
making sure that one progresses in a career. Apparently, in any business organization, there are
various techniques that are used in assessing recruits in a company. One of the most celebrated
methods used especially in the wake of technological advancement and internet usage is the
MBTI method. In essence, this strategy is used to determine the personal attribute of people and
has proven useful especially in knowing those workers that are employed in a business operation.

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Appendix - Action Plan for Professional Development (Prepared According To the
Template Provided)
 Expand my overall understanding of the profession and application of IT in human
resource management.
 Makes sure I assist the stakeholders as well as staff in having a thorough knowledge of
the service agreement.
 Become one of the proficient in my profession through adhering to ethical best practices.

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SECTION #2
Report on Informational Interview
Introduction
Holding an interview is an essential part of getting to know the person one is dealing with
it in the case is in organizational settings. Apparently, every interview has got its own unique
style and focus of the main view despite some question being asked more often in various firms
in the world market. It, therefore, makes sense in case one intends to prepare for a particular
interview the level of preparation that would come along (Hurst, Azevedo, & Hawranik, 2018).
In this light, it is in the best interest for someone who prepares for an interview to make sure that
he or she has a clear glimpse of the background that is going to convince an interviewer that they
deserve a particular position in a business (Kumar & Natarajan, 2018).
It is no doubt that no doubt that landing a dream job is the intention of any job seeker.
Nonetheless, many individuals fail to prepare for an interview sufficiently (Smith & van, 2018).
Most job seekers in many occasions fail to work on career development skills even after
graduating from college. Most of this people hope to transit directly from college to employment
or from one particular career stage to another one (Layne, 018). Nonetheless, natural career
development remains a dream to many people. The main aim of this interview is to demystify
other interviews (Theodore et al., 2018, pp.207). Additionally, this interview is planned to
enumerate on performance and where needs to be fixed for.
Details of the Interview
Although it was not the first time I experienced what an interview was all about, I was a
little bit nervous given that this time I was going to interview a human resource manager of Quay
restaurant in Australia (RIYADH, 2018). Her name was Shirley Johnson. The main reason I
chose her was the fact that my interest was to understand the whole concept that revolves around

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hiring procedure and best practices in a certain firm. The designed place where the interview was
to take place was in their very restaurant for her convenience given that most of the time she is
very busy with her daily routine. Meeting her was not hard as I was provided her contact with
one of my colleague in our firm. Essentially I talked to her and informed her of my intention and
deciding the venue was not hard since I was the one in more need of the data so I had to make a
follow-up. Although I had not anticipated the time framework, I made an assumption which was
at least one hour and we took no more than that.
Interview Questions
What are some of your expectations from a manager?
- “I acknowledge a working environment where all the supervisors are at the forefront
of creating good connections with all their employees in a certain business. For
instance, in my last job, I was impressed with that overall fact that management never
favored any employee but treated them equally. This one of the key virtue that I would
require from a manager.” Favor
How best do you manage a problem related to your employees?
- “It is certainly not an easy task solving a problem regarding a particular employee.
However, throughout my career, I have learned the aspect of being patient and
listening to what others have in their thoughts. In this case, I always listened to both
sides carefully and come up with a solution that would not affect any side of the party
involved.”
How well can you enumerate the level of success?
- “In most cases, I try to view success in a different way altogether. In this light then I
am in a position to outline the level of success based on the initial set objectives. After

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that, I always like recognizing and rewarding hard work. This gives room for not only
to those that have been rewarded but also to give those that would want to deliver
quality an improvement.”
It is normal practice to be criticized, what is that particular thing that people keeps on criticizing
you about?
-“To be honest I do get criticized each and every day for different issues but how I
approach these criticisms. Nonetheless, I try to listen to their complaints and implement the
changes if they are viable. Some workers criticize me on the way I recruit workers but I believe
in the best clients out there.”
Summary of the Information Gathered
It is evident that performing a certain interview is important in understanding how well a
company relates to its works and executes it work on the shortage time possible (Jadhav, ).
Additionally, it is important to trace the level of operation that is why it is advisable to check the
level of improvement based on the type of work produced by the writers. A good manager is
expressed as those who would like to have a good rapport with their customers on daily
perspectives. To be honest, I have not experienced any orders of school deadlines. (Romanova,
2018) A good manager is the one who solves a problem, one that makes sure there is the aspect
of the collaboration of both workers and the administrator to no avail. These are things that I
want to see and doctors doing in the best interest of a company (Khan 018, pp.1143).
Integrate Your Career Planning Reflections
For many years my dream has been to improve my career and make sure I apply all the
necessary ethical approaches my professional journey. Having gone through the interview, I have
learned that there is need to makes sure there is a good rapport between the business structures

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and the client. I, therefore, intend to increase my knowledge the line of information technology
as well as providing support to my fellow workers.
Conclusion
In a nutshell, the above interview has been helpful as I have studied the way a manager is
supposed to define success and finally rewarding the efforts of the workers. It is as well
important to be in a position of understanding the process involved in settling a dispute among
workers and make sure that the dispute is completely solved.

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