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Unit 3 Pip Ittm RQF Sept 2018
Unit 3 Pip Ittm RQF Sept 2018
Programme title BTEC Level 5 RQF HND in International Travel & Tourism Management
Assignment number & title 1 of 1 Personal Skill Audit and Professional Development Plan
Issue Date
Final assignment
submission deadline
07-12 Jan 2019
Late submission deadline The learners are required to follow the strict deadline set by the College
for submissions of assignments in accordance with the BTEC level 4 – 5
submission guidelines and College policy on submissions.
The work you submit must be in your own words. If you use a quote or an
illustration from somewhere you must give the source.
General Include a list of references at the end of your document. You must give all
your sources of information.
Guidelines Make sure your work is clearly presented and that you use readily
understandable English.
Wherever possible use a word processor and its “spell-checker”.
Internal verifier
This Unit will be assessed by a written assignment and a mock job interview.
This assignment is aimed at assessing the learner’s ability to demonstrate the role and significance
of continuous professional development and its benefits to both the employees and the employers.
This also requires the learner to assess her or her own skills and competences as well as the
different learning and development approaches so that a professional development plan can be
constructed and implemented.
The learner is also required to demonstrate the ability to prepare himself or herself to apply for jobs
and face interviews professionally and meet the expected standards and required transferable skills,
whether in hospitality or travel and tourism industry. The learner will carry out this assignment under
the four learning outcomes as follows:
The activities in this coursework assignment are all based on the scenario provided above
but your discussion should also be supported by relevant theories and concepts whenever
deemed necessary.
Discuss the role of on-going professional development in an organisation and examine its benefits
to the employees and employers in an organisation of your choice. For a specific travel and tourism
or hospitality organisation, investigate the employer expectations of professional skills and
standards.
Evaluate the importance of on-going professional development and the associated professional
skills requirements within the context of your chosen organisation. Critically evaluate your own skills
and competencies to meet the employer expectation of professional skills required for employment
within a specific job role you have chosen.
Learning Outcome 2: Assess own skills, competences and the different learning and development
approaches
For a specific job role in your sector, systematically assess your skills, abilities and competences
using appropriate methods and techniques. Review a range of learning theories or models and
approaches used to explain personal and professional development process.
Evaluate your own skills and competencies and the most appropriate developmental approach to
develop personal and professional skills for the chosen job role.
Based on the skills and competences reviewed in learning outcome 2, construct a professional
development plan to enhance chosen skills and competences within a specific work context.
Provide a detailed development plan that applies underpinning learning and development theory, in
a specific work context. Produce a comprehensive development plan that sets out clear and
achievable targets, strategies and outcomes of learning and training within a specific work context.
Learning Outcome 4: Demonstrate a range of service industry and transferable skills for a job
application
Activity: Mock Interview (Learner may present a portfolio of credential, including an updated CV)
Prepare and apply for a suitable travel and tourism sector job and undertake a job interview in a
controlled environment and review key strengths and weaknesses of the job interview process.
Evaluate the job interview process emphasising on the obstacles and the challenges your may have
to overcome and produce a detailed and coherent critical reflection of the interview process and
your own abilities during the process.
LO1 Explore the P1 Examine the key M1 Evaluate the D1 Critically evaluate
importance of on-going benefits of on-going importance of own skills and
professional professional on-going competencies to meet
development and development for professional the employer
self-directed learning to different stakeholders development and the expectation of
enhance professional within a specific associated professional skills
identity and career organisation professional skills required for
opportunities requirements within employment within a
P2 Investigate a specific specific job role.
professional employer organisational
expectations of skills context.
and competencies
within a specific
organisational context
Plagiarism is presenting somebody else’s work as your own. It includes copying information
directly from the Web or books without referencing the material; submitting joint coursework
as an individual effort.
Suspected plagiarism or collusion will be investigated and if found to have occurred will be
dealt with according to the college procedure. (For details on Plagiarism & Collusion
please see the student hand book)
4. Submission
a. Initial submission of coursework to the tutors is compulsory in each unit of the course.
b. Student must check their assignments on ICON VLE with plagiarism software Turnitin to
make sure the similarity index for their assignment stays within the College approved level. A
student can check the similarity index of their assignment three times in the Draft
Assignment submission point located in the home page of the ICON VLE.
c. All Final coursework must be submitted to the Final submission point into the unit (not to
the Tutor). A student would be allowed to submit only once and that is the final
submission.
d. Any computer files generated such as program code (software), graphic files that form part
of the coursework must be submitted as an attachment to the assignment with all
documentation.
e. Any portfolio for a unit must be submitted as a hardcopy to examination office.
f. The student must attach a tutor’s comment in between the cover page and the answer in the
case of Resubmission.
5. Good practice
a. Make backup of your work in different media (hard disk, memory stick etc.) to avoid distress
for loss or damage of your original copy.