Internship Report: Career Goals as Store Manager at Pizza Hut

This report details a student's internship experience as a store manager at Pizza Hut. It outlines the expectations, responsibilities, and career goals associated with the role. The report covers the development of key skills such as customer service, leadership, communication, and management, highlighting how the internship contributed to achieving these goals. It also discusses the practical application of business concepts, including SWOT analysis, and the importance of professional networking. The student's aspirations include seeking a retail manager position, developing excellent customer service skills, honing leadership abilities, improving communication skills, and ultimately establishing their own business in the food industry after gaining extensive experience. The report concludes by emphasizing the benefits of the internship for career development and achieving the stated goals, supported by relevant references.

Introduction
In order to write short written response, it is essential to cover goals and objectives which
increases effectiveness. In this consideration, systematic development of the activities ascertain in
the business (Johnson, Leenders and McCue, 2017). For gaining insight information of the present
report, it covers career goals which completed in internship.
Main body
In order to work as store manager in Pizza Hut, it is important to focus on the several roles
and responsibility that accomplish on the time. Further, it also considered several aims which helps
to ascertain expectations in the business (Drew, McCallum and Roggenhofer, 2016). Following are
certain duties and responsibilities considered as a store manager in internship:
Expectations:
 Real life experience and exposure: In respect to gain effective information, it is essential to
get more experience and exposure in the life. In this aspect, it is important to store manager
to make their concentration on the expressing themselves towards the business results. In
addition to this, positive and take back positive experience considered in the business to
attract several customers at workplace.
 Opportunities to learn about the strength and weakness: Further, another expectation of
store manager of Pizza hut need to concentrate on the strength and weakness towards the
opportunities. In this aspect, aims and objectives assists to develop in systematic manner at
workplace. With the help of the different opportunities, business SWOT considered at
workplace which increasing its effectiveness to undertake more creative results. In order to
look towards the people, it is important to looking for the business competitors as well. With
the help of this expectation, the store manager able to deliver creativity and ascertain
systematic operations at workplace (Drew, McCallum and Roggenhofer, 2016).
 Get connected with terms of professional and development of network: Along with this,
store manager has expectation to develop terms of professional and development with create
a systematic network in it. In this consideration, effectiveness develop to work in proper
manner. Therefore, systematic work performances develop at workplace. In this regard, peer
learning is important concept that assists to make systematic networking within the
environment (Stair and Reynolds, 2017). Hence, it will beneficial to make overall growth of
a person in the Pizza Hut enterprise.
Goals
 Seeking a Retail Manager position with competitive retail brand in next 5 years: In respect
to develop effective results, it is important to seeking with retail manager position.
Therefore, in the Pizza hut internship, store manager has goal to make himself as the retail
manager position. It helps to make competitive retail brand development activities in
systematic manner. It increases effectiveness and undertake new position in the business.
Further, it also increases value and standard of a particular person who work in the
enterprise (Johnson, Leenders and McCue, 2017).
 To gain excellent customer service skills to stimulate cyclical business – The internship will
assist me developing effective customer skills which is responsible for stimulating cyclical
business. The customer service skills are very important in order to meet their needs and
demand and provide them best services. It will help me to achieve success in future career.
 To have strong leadership skills and the ability to meet personal and company goals – The
internship in pizza hut will help me to develop effective leadership qualities and the abilities

to achieve the organisational and personal goal. Working as a store manager in Pizza hut
needs important skills to handle and manage the items required to perform business
operations, this can help me to gain experience of managing stock and goods(Blau,
Chapman and Neri,2016).
 To improve communication and management skills that support in-store operations – The
another goal is that I can improve my communication and management skills which is
important in store operations. A store manager needs to communicate with each and every
employee in order to identify the need of stock and the availability of stock every day. This
can help a lot in improvement of the communication as well as management skills(Betts,
Laud and Yakubov,2015).
 To set-up own business(store) after gaining an experience of 10-12 years in sector – The
internship will help me to gain good experience and knowledge of working in food industry.
Pizza hut is a very big brand and working as a store manager in the same will help me to
grow my skills and knowledge value as a candidate for getting employed in any other
organisations. I will try to get employed by a company with a similar brand image and value
in the market for example McDonald's or Starbucks. I will grow my career in an
organisation and try to develop my skills and knowledge. My goal will be to work as an
important employee for the organisation and try to work for atleast 10 to 12 years in a
particular organisation so that I can identify the whole process and management system of
an organisation operating in the food industry. The marketing, management, store
management and other functions can be easily understood by working for so long in an
organisation. The final goal of my career will be to start my own store or business related to
the same services and products once I gain a strong knowledge of business operation by my
10 years job experience(Tellhed, Bäckström and Björklund,2018).
Conclusion
The above report presents various that with the help of the expectations such as getting
connected with terms of professional and development of network, Real life experience and
exposure and Opportunities to learn about the strength and weakness can help me to achieve various
goals with respect to my career such gaining excellent customer service skills to stimulate cyclical
business, improving communication and management skills that support in-store operations etc. The
internship is very beneficial for my career and development.

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