In today's competitive job market, a well-crafted resume is your ticket to securing job opportunities and standing out from the crowd. Your resume serves as a marketing tool, showcasing your skills, experiences, and qualifications to potential employers. To maximize its impact, it's crucial to create an effective resume that captures attention and leaves a lasting impression. In this career coaching article, we'll provide you with essential tips and strategies to help you write a compelling and effective resume.   Understand the Purpose: Before diving into resume writing, it's important ..read more

By Dr. Sue Ann Guy Definition, Occurrence and Symptoms: Musicians tend to convey high artistic, social and enterprising interests [1]. Writing songs, notes, playing instruments, etc. require significant artistic and creative ability. Successful collaboration with band members, singers, producers, etc. relies on the musician's social skills. Producing music that people continuously enjoy (demand) reflects enterprising skill, influence or sales ability. However, competition in the music industry is fierce [2]. Musical talent is a dime a dozen and the industry churns out one-hit-wonders regularl ..read more

By Dr. Sue Ann Guy Definition, Occurrence and Symptoms: Remote work groups, which are employees collaborating virtually from multiple different locations, depend on effective communication processes to achieve employment goals. As more businesses use remote work groups within day-to-day operations, improved remote work group communication becomes critical for business success.[5]  Failure to correct poor-performing, unproductive or inefficient tech-based communication to support remote work groups contributes to confusion, mistrust, reduced team productivity, scheduling conflict, miscomm ..read more

By Dr. Sue Ann T. Guy Definition, Occurrence and Symptoms: Advantages of not having a college degree include, limiting education-related costs, maximize professional experience and allows professionals to explore different career options.1 However, advantages for holding a college degree include, creation of networking opportunities, helps market candidates to employers, and college graduates can live and work almost anywhere. 63% of American youth leave school without earning a college degree.2 Still,100% of recruiters believe candidates with a college degree have more skills than those wit ..read more

By Dr. Sue Ann T. Guy Definition, Occurrence and Symptoms: Apathy is a lack of interests, enthusiasm or concern; Lack of feeling or emotion.1 Absence or suppression of passion, emotion or excitement; Lack of interest in or concern for things that others find moving or exciting.2  (Bystander apathy is when people witness others in need and choose to do nothing to help, intervene or offer assistance.) Symptoms of apathy include lack of interest, motivation or emotion, inability to perform well at work, disrupted social relationships, low energy levels, reduced participation, anhedonia (inab ..read more

By Dr. Sue Ann Guy Definition, Occurrence and Symptoms: Goal setting motivates employee performance  within the workplace.1, 2, 3 When employees both plan and receive clear goals for employment, employee job satisfaction increases. Goals for employees clarify how to prioritize tasks, how decisions impact employment, teamwork expectations and compensation for overall employment success. Employment goals should be established with employers before hire, but only after individuals consider personal goals. For example, you plan to complete a $6 million project within two years before returni ..read more

By Dr. Sue Ann T. Guy Definition, Occurrence and Symptoms: Helplessness is the temporary inability to defend oneself or act effectively. Lacking protection or support, especially when faced with difficulty. The feeling or state of being unable to do anything to help yourself or anyone else. Feeling defenseless, powerlessness, out of control, unable to manage.   Learned helplessness is an ongoing behavior that occurs or manifest when someone is repeatedly subject or controlled by an aversive stimulus that is inescapable. Eventually, the person will stop trying to avoid the stimulus and beh ..read more

Definition, Occurrence and Symptoms: Assignment of responsibility of fault or wrong. To  hold someone responsible for something negative that happened.1 To blame is to hold another person or group responsible for perceived faults real, imagined, or merely invented for pejorative purposes. Blame is an act of censure, reproach, and often outright condemnation. Blame is used to place responsibility and accountability for faults on the blamed person or group.2 Blamers may be close friend, intimate partner, family member, teenage child, colleague, boss, in-law or acquaintance. People bein ..read more

By Dr. Sue Ann T. Guy Definition, Occurrence and Symptoms: Listing false employment entries on your resume, hiring friends and family covertly via nepotism, adding unworked hours to your timesheet, billing clients for services not rendered, submitting expense reimbursement for a date night, returning overused products to vendors as damaged, reporting financial or inventory losses after stealing, gossiping about false stories against coworkers, etc. There are multiple examples of employee lying or dishonesty in the workplace.1, 3 Employees may perpetrate lies or become victims of lies for any r ..read more

by Dr. Sue Ann T. Guy Definition, Occurrence and Symptoms: Bullying is defined as an act seeking to harm, intimidate, coerce or overpower someone perceived as vulnerable, weak or subordinate; to persecute, oppress, tyrannize. Deliberate misuse of power in relationships through repeated verbal, physical or social behavior that intends to cause physical, social or psychological harm. Bullies seek social power, desire to be esteemed highly by others or desire to be seen as powerful.   Bullying occurs in-person, in public, in groups, online (cyberbullying), in families, in marriages, in work ..read more