Professional Identity and Practice Assignment: HND Business Management

This document is a comprehensive report on professional identity and practice, tailored for a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business Management. It covers the critical aspects of ongoing professional development, self-directed learning, and their impact on enhancing professional identity and career opportunities. The report delves into the expectations of employers regarding skills and competencies, requiring students to assess their own abilities in relation to specific job roles and to critically evaluate these skills against employer expectations. The assignment involves creating a personal development plan (PDP) with clear targets, strategies, and outcomes, and culminates in a simulated job interview and a reflective practice report. The student is required to analyze their strengths and weaknesses during the interview and evaluate the overall process, providing insights into their professional growth and development. This assignment emphasizes the importance of practical application, self-assessment, and strategic career planning within a business context.

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LO1 Explore the importance of ongoing professionaldevelopment and self-directed learning to
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LO2 Assess own skills, competences and the differentlearning and development approaches
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LO3 Design a professional development plan in aspecific work context
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LO4 Demonstrate a range of competences andtransferable skills for a job application.
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Student Name /ID Number A.J. JAHIN APSER/ COL E156729
Unit Number and Title Unit 17: Professional Identity and Practice
Academic Year 2021/2022
Unit Tutor Ms. ERANGA
Assignment Title Understand the process of self-assessment ofskills and competences,
personal career planning and the application of differentlearning
and development approaches in a work environment
Issue Date 09/08/2022
Submission Date 29/11/2022
IV Name & Date
Submission format
Section A, B, C, D
The submission should be a single report which should be included essay covering section A, short report
covering section B, Personal development plan covering section C andreflective practice report covering
the section D. Further, it is necessary to attach the necessary evidence generated throughout the student
work. This should be written in a concise, formal business style using single spacing and font size 12. You are
required to make use of headings, paragraphs and subsections as appropriate, and all work must be supported with
research and referenced using Harvard referencing system. The recommended word limit is 3,000 to 3,500 words,
although you will not be penalised for exceeding the total word limit.
Unit Learning Outcomes:
LO1 Explore the importance of ongoing professional development and self-directed learning to enhance professional
identity and career opportunities
LO2 Assess own skills, competences and the different learning and development approaches
LO3 Design a professional development plan in a specific work context
LO4 Demonstrate a range of competences and transferable skills for a job application.
Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

Assignment Brief and Guidance:
Section A
Learner first must select a specific Sri Lankan based organisation in any of the sectors, e.g.,
Education, Financial services, Leisure, Professional services, Retail, Telecoms, Travel, etc. You are
now required to produce an essay on “Ongoing Professional Development and expectations of
professional employer” relating to the chosen organisation which should be covered following
areas.
 Explore the key benefits that could obtained by different stakeholders through “ongoing
professional development”. Your answer can be further improved by including the critical
evaluation on the significance of “ongoing professional development”.
 Examine the skills and competences that employers of chosen organisation expect from
organisation’s employees. You need to provide some examples from the chosen
organisation to critically evaluate the expected skills and competences requirement in the
organisation.
Section B
Produce a report on “getting ready to apply for a job”. Select a job vacancy published by the
organisation you have chosen previously upon your desire assuming that you need to apply for that
job after successful completion of your HND programme.
 You must do an audit of your skills and knowledge levels in order to apply for the selected
vacancy notice using appropriate methods and critically evaluate own skills and
competencies identified in mapping with the job requirement.
 Identify and review the learning theories and approaches that can be used in personal and
professional development to improve your personal and professional skills to fit to the job
requirement and justify your answer.
Section C
You are now needed to develop a comprehensive PDP (Personal Development Plan) by
identifying clear and achievable targets, strategies and outcomes of learning and training relating to
previously selected job vacancy. In producing the PDP, you need to focus on identifying main
objective and sub objectives adhering to SMART criteria, skills, and competency gap, improve the
skills and competencies through learning and training, evaluate on methods applied, and monitoring
and controlling the set Objectives with the use of standard methods.
Section D
You are required to make a CV for the chosen job vacancyin section B and undertake job
interview that will be conducted by your assessor. Based on the interview process you need to now
produce a reflective practice report covering following areas.
 Identify and review the key strengths and weaknesses of an applied interview process with

possible plus and negative points that you can address. Include a critical evaluation of the
job interview process considering the obstacles, and challenges it presented.
Grading Rubric
Grading Criteria Achieved Feedback
P1 Examine the keybenefits of ongoing
Professionaldevelopment fordifferent stakeholders ina

specific organisation.
P2 Investigateprofessional employer
expectations of skills andcompetences in aspecific
organizational context.
P3 Assess own abilities, skills, and competences for a
specific job role.
P4 Review a range of learning theories and approaches
used for personal and
Professional development processes.
P5 Construct a development plan to
enhance chosen skills and competences in a specific
work context.
P6 Undertake a job interview for a suitable role.
P7 Review key strengths and weaknesses of an applied
interview process.
M1 Evaluate the importance of ongoing
professional development and the associated
professional skills requirements in a specific
organisational context.
M2 Evaluate own skills and competences and the most
appropriate developmental approach to develop
personal and professional skills for a specific job role.
M2 Evaluate own skills and competences and the most
appropriate developmental approach to develop
personal and
professional skills for a specific job role.
M2 Evaluate own skills and competences and the most
appropriate developmental approach to develop
personal and professional skills for a specific job role.
D1 Critically evaluate own skills and competences to
meet the employer
expectation of professional skills required for
employment in a specific
job role.
D2 Produce a comprehensive development plan that
sets out clear and achievable targets, strategies and
outcomes of learning and training in a specific work
context.
D3 Produce a detailed and coherent critical reflection
of an interview process and own abilities during this
process.
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Qualification: BTEC Level 4-HNC/HND Diploma (RQF)
Unit number & title: Unit 17: Professional Identity and Practice

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