QAB020N501A - Managing People and Careers Assignment: Reflection

This assignment, focused on managing people and careers, showcases a student's understanding of human resource management principles. The document begins with a cover letter, demonstrating professional communication skills. It then provides detailed answers to competency-based job application questions, highlighting the student's strengths, weaknesses, and understanding of ethical business practices. The assignment further explores hiring strategies and reflects on in-seminar interview and assessment center exercise practices, demonstrating practical application of learned concepts. The student's reflections reveal insights gained from these activities, emphasizing communication skills and the development of effective human resource management techniques. The assignment provides a comprehensive overview of the key aspects of managing people and careers, as taught in the QAB020N501A module.

Managing People and Careers

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover Letter.....................................................................................................................................3
Targeted Competency-based job application answers to supplied questions..................................5
Reflection notes on in-seminar interview practice...........................................................................7
Reflection notes on in-seminar assessment centre exercise practice...............................................8

Cover Letter
Cover Letter
December 1, 2019
Harry Parker
Hotel Manager
The Stafford London
16-18 St. James's Place
London SW1A 1NJ England
Dear Mr. Parker
I was glad to see your job vacancy the new Human Resource Manager position and the reason
behind is I have that all qualification which you have mentioned in your requirement. I qualified
in the Management of human resource in the organizations, and believe I am perfect for this
job. I too much like the management term, in which I am always trying to develop new
management skills for me manage things around me.
From many times I have looking for this type of job which require my qualification like I had.
This job is the great opportunities to me put my all efforts in management of human resource. I
have completed trained in the human resource management. Now I truly believe that I will
cover your all the tasks which you give me one my post with my full professional potential. My
workability is pure and clean in the human resource management, because I believe in the
ethical management work.
With my human resource management qualification I have some additional skills too which
really help to the Stafford hotel in performance improvement. For example my communication
skills are too good to face any people in the hotel environment. My polite nature is always
helping me to impress anyone during talking. My listening skills are make sure to the other
party that I am interested to talk with him or her. I understand the basic needs of the employees

in an organization. I always like to read articles, blogs, essays which covers the topic of human
resource management.
In terms of management skills, I have perfect command on the management because from my
school-days to day I always exited in participate in the management tasks. I like to manage
things around me, and specially to the people which are connected to me for any professional
purposes. I feel great when I lead the people under my command, because it is like a respected
job where you work for the handling new people, take their interview, understand different
human behaviours etc.
My character is polite in nature, because I don't like to talk to someone in loader voice. Suppose
if any employee which working under my command does any mistake, in that case i don't be too
much angry on it. I just talk to him or her politely, and advice them to be careful and focused
during workplace for positive results. This is just one part of my character. According to my
this nature able to give input in making of positive work culture for the employees. These are
my specialities which I consider as a god gift in my life. I always try to improve my character
on the daily basic activities.
I've attached my CV so you may review my educational qualification and my abilities which I
have gain by many hard work and daily practices. If you have any CV relative questions, in that
case please do contact me on my cell phone number or email which I mentioned below. I look
forward to your response on my this letter.
Sincerely,
Oliver Ryan
Cell phone no. : 333-555-777
email : [e-mail]

Targeted Competency-based job application answers to supplied questions
1. What do you understand by the term; Managing people and careers in an organisation?
Managing people in an organization or a company is one of the major functions of the
management. People basically refer to employees of the company. Without the employees no
one company can achieve their decided goals in the respective market. Management of the
company is responsible to understand their employees in an organization, and always try to make
happy and healthy work environment for them at work place. For improvement of employees
skills and productivity in the business, management need to arrange some training sessions for
them in an organization. Companies are need to provide best career opportunities to the people in
their organizations. Human resource is very compulsory element in the companies which played
great role in the achievement of the decided business goals. In the companies the human resource
manager is responsible to cover their all work/task in perfect manner for getting better results by
the human resource in the business operations. Management of the company is need to take some
effective decisions towards managing employees in the company, because if the management is
not take any perfect or effective decisions for the managing employees in that case their
employees productivity will decrease day by day.
2. What is your Strength?
My communication skills are so good. I am get attention of from the other party in few
minutes of talking. In which mine convening power of also very effective in the team work. I
deeply understand how to handle different type of people in an organization, and this my one of
the major strength which I got as a god gift in my life. I also understand there are various
conditions I need to face in company's operations, and I am sure about I face them with my
internal efficiency. I am always interested in the learning new things in my daily life. These
useful things which I learn played well role in my personal life. Self motivation is also very
necessary for working in the organizational activities. In which I able to prepare my self as a
highly motivated person. My management quality is very good from my school-time, because
when I was in school I always take participate in the sports/games where I was the captain of my
team. From that time to date my management skills are increasing day by day, and I guess now I
am able to manage approx 60 to 70 people under my managership, and I am sure this count will
increase more with my daily practices.

3. What are your Weaknesses?
With my major strength I have some weaknesses as well. For example; I am not too
much good in the decision-making. I always take too much time in taking any decision. This is
like a long process to me. In other side my another weakness is that I am influence in few time
by external factors. Anyone can easily able to influence me with their some effective words. My
punctuality factor is also poor, in which most time I fail in complete any task at decided time
limit. Another one is I always believe my own strategies are the better than others to cover any
task, and by my this weakness many times I face some problems too. It is difficult for me for use
new technological gadgets and tools, because I take long time in understand their features and
also their basic uses. I need some guidance to use these type of tools and gadgets because on the
self basis it is like impossible to me. I have very friendly nature, and I also consider it as my
weakness because high friendliness many times put negative impact on the job of management.
The reason behind this statement is, a manager need to be some strict also at their job position to
take productive work from the employees.
4. What do you understand by ethical and unethical business?
I very well know about this ethical and unethical term of business. When any business
fulfil their all legal formalities in proper way, in that case business comes under the ethical
business. For make ethical business environment companies are need to avoid such activities in
the business operations which lead the negative aspect. In other hand when any business take
some actions which violate the legal terms of the business, in that case this business comes under
the unethical business. For example: When any business paying less salary to their employees
than employee or labour law's monthly salary chart. Many of businesses are doing unethical
attempts in their business operations to gain high profit. In this situation if once a business catch
by doing such unethical business activities, then their market reputation or goodwill decrease in
the market. At the final result customers are no more trust on services on that business. Every
company need to run their all business activities in a proper and ethical channel for gaining long
term profit in the market. Ethical business is also necessary for avoid such negative elements
from the company which are present bad image of the company in the market, like; court
hearing, protest of employees, etc.
5. Which strategies you will use in hiring?

Firstly I completely understand the reason behind hiring. This is one of the major tasks of
the human resource manager. In which manager need to use their some innovative ideas to hire
some specific employees in an organization. In my case I don't use such traditional strategies for
the hiring procedure. I choose some modern hiring strategies which help to the company to save
many of the cost and time of the company. Suppose upper management of the company order me
to hire new 50 skilful employees for company, in that case make a professional requirement
poster or advertise and publish it on only that platforms which are really effective for
advertisement spreading, like; social media pages, emails, job consulting websites etc. Then I
accept the applications of the candidates which was applied for the respective posts, and sort
them for select application of that candidates which has many work skills. Then contact selected
candidates for personal interview. In the personal interview also I don't ask them that such
repeated interview questions. At the final result, candidates which really impress me by their
performance. I will present offer letter to them, and then go for to cover rest hiring formalities.
Reflection notes on in-seminar interview practice
I was take participate in the interview simulations for 8 weeks, and it was gives me huge
opportunities to learn many aspects of the human resource management. This is the main reason
behind my management skills which I currently have.
 Now I am able to use these various management skills in the practical operations of the
human resource management.
 In the starting stage I was faced some challenges in the learning of skills but with my few
efforts I easily get able to improve my these skills.
 I never forget in my future that interaction values which I was learnt in that interview.
 I was also very exited to talk with my seniors which are work under the human resource
field for long time.
 I want to become effective and productive human resource manager, and these seminars
gives big help tom me in the improvement of my workability.
 Communication skills are very necessary in the management of human resource in any
organization. In which that was best of the best opportunity for me to know the various
aspects of the communication in an organization.

Reflection notes on in-seminar assessment centre exercise practice
I was take also participate in assessment centre exercise practice for 10 weeks, where I
was test my ability to demonstrate the skills which required for the human resource manger
position.
 During the seminars I was test my communication skills by talk to the people which
attended that seminars with me.
 I was also shared my knowledge about the human resource reporting knowledge to the
people to know my reporting knowledge is effective or not.
 My hiring strategies are also very modern which I was developed my training and
development skills.
 I was chosen different tasks during seminars to improve management skills, like; prepare
the budget of seminars activities.
 Once I was give speech on the importance of the human resource in an organization to
improve my multitasking skills. That speech was memorable for me because on that time
my all audience was appreciated me for my logical human resource based knowledge
which I was shared through speech.