Personal and Professional Development Reflective Essay Analysis

This reflective essay delves into the realm of personal and professional development, specifically focusing on the author's aspirations within the hotel industry. The essay begins with an introduction to the importance of continuous skill enhancement. It proceeds with a self-assessment of the author's skills, employing a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The essay then articulates the author's career ambitions within the hospitality sector, justifying the choice and highlighting the industry's appeal and growth potential. The author matches their skills to their career ambitions, identifying gaps and using Gibbs' reflective cycle to analyze past experiences and plan for improvement. The essay concludes with recommendations for professional growth, emphasizing the need for a proactive and communicative approach. References to relevant literature are included, along with a visual representation of Gibbs' reflective cycle.

PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT REFLECTIVE
ESSAY

Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................1
2. IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION ON OWN SKILLS AND CAREER AMBITION..1
3. CONCLUSION ...........................................................................................................................5
4. RECOMMENDATIONS.............................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

1. INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development aids to develop the role that aids to enhancing the
necessaries skills effectively. Thus, effective professional development aids to ensuring the
knowledge and to understand the area of expertise (Nathan, 2018). Therefore, personal and
professional development are term that aids to enhance personal growth of individuals with help
of working towards the own development plan. It aids to set out the goals, strategies and
outcomes of learning and training. This is very crucial to continue to learn and develop the skills
and knowledge up to date in order to ensure safely, legally and effectively in the work.
Furthermore, enterprise must commit to employee development so that can be useful to
enhance personal job satisfaction and employee motivation. Personal and professional
development is inclusive of wide variety of specialised training, better professional knowledge
and effective skills.
The present report is based on developing individual skills in order to pursue the career in
the filed of hotel industry. Thus, report will focus over the number of things as evaluation on the
skill with the help of SWOT analysis, to provide identification and justification on choosing
career path and to perform better in it, Lastly, recommendation will be defined in to get the job
done in effective and efficient mode.
2. IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION ON OWN SKILLS AND
CAREER AMBITION.
Evaluation on own skills-
With help of determining the self evaluation of skills aids to develop the skills and
knowledge of the person. Thus, I want to make my future in hotel industry. Thus, SWOT has
been conducted in following manner as-
Strength-
 I have good communication skill that
could assist me to make better
communication with customers.
 I have done MBA in hotel management
and that aids to me to get the depth
insights about the hotel industry.
Weakness
 I am not good listen and that affects me
to do the things in proper manner.
 Too much work pressure distracted me.
 At the time of multi tasking, I get
confused and this affects my way of
working in badly manner.
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 I have the capacity to be normal and
patient at time of dealing typical task.
 I have better interpersonal skill and this
aids me to do things correctly and
effectively.
Opportunities
 The enhancement in globalisation leads
to have more number of international
travellers and tourist in order to cope up
with emerging economies (Schrand,
Jones and Hanson, 2018).
 Climate and health are also trends that
potentially add value to product and
services.
 Higher trends of hotel industry aids to
provide number of opportunities in
career.
Threats
 Continuously changing the demand of
customer creates the frustrating
situation for managerial person.
 By listening the skill and implementing
the idea can also cause the negative
impact of risk over the person.
Identify and justify on particular sector to work in future and why?
My future ambition is to work with hotel industry. I want to enhance my skill and
knowledge in this field so that I can perform all things in better manner. Thus, hospitality
industry is not only relate with hotels but its about the dining and lodging, It provides wide
platform of number of fields of the service industry. I have a lot of people who ask me that what
are thing that attracts me to pursue my career in hotel industry. Thus, emergence of boutique
hotels in few 15 years is one of the prime example of changing taste of travellers. This is the
industry that is growing over unexpected rate. The hotel industry is inclusive of number of
departments as lodging, entertainment, event planning and transpiration and many other services
(Bennett-Levy, 2018). I need to have innovative skill I am putting major focus over enhancing
my skills so that I can expand my career in this industry. This is the industry that aids me to
creates the more jobs opportunities, drives economic growth and provides better solutions to
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address the social, climate and energy challenges. I want to work this industry so that in future I
can get more career advantage. I think accumulation and process of guest data is one of the factor
that aids me to shape the future of hospitality industry. It is the career that can offer me wide
number of scope to work in future and also aids to enhance my knowledge. This industry will
help me to study and analyse the current market trends (Nathan, 2018). In today's market it is one
of the fastest growing industry and this firm has better scope to enhance and improvise it
operations. Thus, hospitality industry has huge scope and limitless options as hotel management,
tourism agencies, airline and cabin services and cruise ships etc. thus, one of the skilful job under
this industry aids to provide better career advancement. With the enhancement of technology
spending, payment security and mobile engagement security has provided wider scope to this
industry.
Matching skills to career ambition.
Matching of the skill in terms to career ambitions-
In the above I have mention my own skill in order to make career in cleaning industry.
Skills required Matching of skill
Time management skill In order to work with hotel industry, it is
crucial to have time management skill, the
manager perform at this field must have idea
about managing the all the things of person
within time manner (Wald and et.al., 2018).
Interpersonal skill My interpersonal skill of working was not that
effective and it leads me to create false
impression.
Communication skill I am good in communicating with others but at
time of multi work I actually forgot to make
proper communication and this creates the
hurdles.
Identification of gap in skills have and required to develop.
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Gibbs reflective cycle aids to enhance learning with its different stages and also provide
sense of an experience. Thus, its defined as-
Description- Once, I have worked in hotel industry. So, I got to know that hotel industry has
wide scope and I am capable to performing the task in better manner. Thus, at that time I feel my
communication skill was not that effective and that leads to have downfall in order to pursuing
career in it.
Feeling- At that situation, I found that I was not able to carry out the process of hotel industry as
I was bot having good time management skill. This leads to me procrastinate the things. This, it
creates bad image in front of seniors.
Evaluation- At this stage, I planned to cope up with my issue and for this I started prioritising
the things and work as per the deadlines so that I can assure to finish it within proper deadline.
At this level, I make differentiate between the actual and planned performance and this aids me
to know about corrective actions.
Illustration 1: Gibbs reflective cycle
(Source: Gibbs' reflective cycle. 2019.)
Analysis- By prioritising the things and conducting the things on proper deadline aids me to do
the things in effective manner. By analysing the skills in properly I can do the each task in well
and proper manner.
Conclusion- With the help of above reflection cycle, I have improved my self and worked on my
skills and this assist me to do the proper things. This aids me to do the things in better manner.
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Action plan- In order to performing in better manner, I work as to prioritise the task as per the
deadlines so that proper things can be conducted within time frame. In order to make
communication properly, I divided the task between the individuals so that each things can be
carried out effectively.
3. CONCLUSION
Hereby, it can be concluded personal and professional development aids to manage the
skill and own learning in better manner. The present report is based to pursue the career in the
field of hotel industry. Furthermore, this report has covered number of things as self evaluation
of own skill with help of SWOT, identify and justify the career and reason of work in with it amd
matching of skills with career ambition and application of Gibbs has been conducted in order to
define the gap so that corrective action can be taken towards it.
4. RECOMMENDATIONS
On the basis of above, the following recommendation in relate to working with hotel
industry defined in following manner as-
1. Individuals must take initiatives to work in hotel industry with help of taking humble,
hard-working and visible approach to management. It is helpful in terms to gain valuable
insights and aids to take visible approach to management.
2. The person want to pursue career in hotel industry must have good communication skill
so that all things can be carried out effectively.
3. I should focus on to developing my interpersonal skills so that I can able to encounter
with dignity and respect. By the transparent communication with guest leads to perform
the things in better approach.
4. To be effective in it, I have to focus over leadership not managerial aspects. By focussing
over managerial approach the all things can able to get back in process.
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REFERENCES
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Bennett-Levy, J., 2018. Why therapists should walk the talk: The theoretical and empirical case
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Nathan, L., 2018, July. Constantly Learning: Engaging for Action and Activism—A Personal
and Professional Reflection in Four Acts. In The Educational Forum. Routledge.
Online
Gibbs' reflective cycle. 2019. [Online] Available
through:<https://www.ed.ac.uk/reflection/reflectors-toolkit/reflecting-on-experience/gibbs-
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