Analyzing Professional Development for HR at Hilton Hotel

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of professional development within the context of an HR manager role at the Hilton Hotel. It begins by emphasizing the importance of ongoing professional development in enhancing professional identity and highlights the significance of continuous learning and self-directed learning. The report then identifies essential skills, competencies, and learning approaches for an HR manager, including organizational and communication skills, team-building abilities, and the need for adaptability. A detailed professional development plan is presented, outlining strategies and expected outcomes for enhancing skills like organizational abilities, communication, the ability to learn, and team building. Finally, the report evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of an interview process, assessing questions asked and the overall effectiveness of the recruitment strategy, with a focus on the service sector's rapid growth and need for innovation.

003 Professional Identity and
Practice

Table of Contents
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
Ongoing professional development importance that helps in enhancing professional identity ..1
LO2..................................................................................................................................................1
Skills, competences and learning approaches that is needed for professional development.......1
LO3 .................................................................................................................................................2
Professional development plan ...................................................................................................2
LO4 .................................................................................................................................................3
Strength and weakness of interview process...............................................................................3

LO1
Ongoing professional development importance that helps in enhancing professional identity
Ongoing professional development is the term that is being used for learning and getting
knowledge on continuous basis while doing training or doing any professional course. It is very
important for developing skills and knowledge for the future course of action. This helps in
improving standards of an employee in the Hilton hotel as compared to others. This will help in
maintaining interest of an employee so that it can learn new things every day and can implement
it in professional life (Cruess Cruess and Steinert, 2016). It also helps in increasing confidence
as when it gets chance to speak in front of the public so if it has knowledge then it will be able to
speak confidently. Similarly, self directed learning is also important as it helps in enhancing
active participation of employees in the company. This helps in building decision making,
planning and problem solving skills that will be help in getting more career opportunities in the
future. Continuous professional development and self directed learning will help in enhancing
identity and more growth in the near future. These type of learning will help in improving skills
that will be needed for achieving success and building more confidence to compete in the
business.
LO2
Skills, competences and learning approaches that is needed for professional development
Job role is regarding HR manager of Hilton hotel. It must have organizational skills to
manage all the activities in the company for achieving objective of the company (Salifu and
Agbenyega, 2016). It is important to have good communication skills as an HR manager so that
it will be able to select best candidate for the company that will be suitable according to the job
role that company is offering
Competencies that is needed for professional development is that it will be able to build teams in
that every member will take active participate for growth of the company. Trust among the
employees plays an important role in the company that will improve working as well as
employee engagement. In this job role it is important to have ability to learn every day new
things so that it will improve capability to grasp easily (Roulston, Cleak and Vreugdenhil, 2018
). Approach that is being used in learning includes both formal and informal learning that is
being used to enhance more skills and knowledge that is necessary for future growth in the
company. Learning never ends as at every moment helps in learning new thing that will be
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beneficial to get success in life. These skills and approach will help in improving professional
development.
LO3
Professional development plan
Skills Target Strategies Outcome Time period
Organizational
skills
1 month Improving
various skills that
is being used for
organizing work
in the company.
Achieved the
desired result but
need some more
time to improve it
for future
1-2 month
Communication
skills
1 month Interacting with
more and more
employee in the
organization so
that hesitation
will remove of
talking to
anybody easily
(Brooks, 2016).
Improved and
able to attract
customers as well
2 months
Ability to learn 2-3 months Attending
training and
development
programs that will
help in increasing
knowledge and
growth for future
Improved at some
extent and gain
knowledge
regarding
different fields
that will help in
growth and
opportunities.
3 months
Team Building 3 months Encourage
employees to do
work in a team so
Employees trust
will also
increased as they
3-4 months
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that it will be
done in effective
manner (Virta
and et. al., 2019).
are working in a
group
LO4
Strength and weakness of interview process
Being a HR at Hilton hotel an interview is being conducted in that following questions
were asked and evaluate the strength and weakness of the process.
Q.1. Do you think your skills and abilities is sufficient for future growth in the company?
Q.2. What is your salary expectation?
By conducting an interview these questions were asked to candidates and the following
strength and weakness can be analysed through this as it is a service sector that is growing at the
fast pace in present scenario as it will be its strength and the weakness is that it is expanding
everyday so it needs innovation after a certain period of time (Mackay, 2017). Due to this
operation cost will increase and growth will also become slows down.
At the time when I went their I found that all the arrangements will be good and each and
every candidate is calling for interview in series wise so that there may not occur any confusion.
After sometime when its chance to declare result it will take more time to announce and at that
time due to some technical problem work gets disturbed and it will become challenging to
handle that condition.
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