The Professional Map: The Cipd's Profession Map

Professionalism is a combination of actions and behaviors; it is what we do and how we do it. Professionalism is also assessing yourself to identify your strengths/weaknesses, pinpoint areas of development, and detect the knowledge and skills required to achieve your goals.
I conduct myself as a professional by using the HR Profession map. “The CIPD's Profession Map captures what successful and effective HR people do and deliver across every aspect and specialism of the profession, and sets out the required activities, behavior and knowledge” (CIPD, 2015).
The purpose of the HR map is to help HR professionals develop their role/capabilities or upgrade their career. It demonstrates what activities should be carried out depending on your HR

Bands and transitions: which include four bands demonstrating the professional areas and behaviors required for junior HR level to senior levels.
As well, as per CIPD, the HR map can be used as a guide for development, sustained performance, and career growth when:
Looking for a job: the map enables me to identify in which band I want to be, the professional area I’m looking for and how to increase my knowledge and experience in this area, and which behaviors are required to succeed in the role and how to improve them.
CPD planning: the map enables me to analyze my current position, knowledge, competencies, and behaviors, where I want to be in the future, and how to attain my goal.
Learning about the profession: the map enables me to recognize the level of my profession, learn about the activities performed in this profession, and the qualifications needed to execute it effectively.
In addition, I conduct myself as a professional

I ensure that HR is involved in the development and implementation of business strategies. And I ensure that HR and business objectives are aligned in order to achieve the shared goals. In addition, I introduce and implement systems, policies, and processes designed to help employees and the business in reaching the strategic objectives effectively and efficiently. For instance, when Qatar announced that it will be hosting the world cup in 2022, numerous construction projects emerged to accommodate this event. And many were awarded to my company. Accordingly, the business strategy was to deliver the projects on time and with high quality. Thus, I designed an HR strategy which incorporates recruiting qualified employees and training existing ones. That is, I transformed the business goals into