Kristen Kocaj

- Reviewing and Editing Resumes
- Assisting in scoring applicants' rank during the recruitment process
- Investigating Alumni/Recent Graduate's engagements post-graduating. This provides SUNY New Paltz with statistical data towards the college's reputation and records

- Collaborating to complete Financial Invoices
- Learning Basic Human Resources Skills through observational training
- Assisting the Training Coordinator prepare for upcoming orientations for new employees
- Entering credentials of hired employees into South Nassau's system
- Creating and printing out ID badges
- Packaging folders and cards
- Addressing outgoing mail

Anticipatory emotions, like dread and anxiety, are experienced when an individual faces the prospect of a future event (Baumgartner, Pieters, & Bagozzi, 2008). The purpose of this study was to determine whether these two emotions are distinct using an approach called PhotoNovella (Burles & Thomas, 2014). This approach provides a set of qualitative data based on lived-experiences, providing greater insight than survey approaches. We modified this approach and asked participants to take photographs about events or issues that depicted dread or anxiety in their everyday lives and then to collectively discuss the meaning of their photos. We gathered data on language used in describing dread and anxiety during focus groups, the content participants chose to portray their emotional experience, and photographic techniques used to distinguish between them. Preliminary results showed that for the dread group, individuals described feeling a stagnancy in time, lack of energy, and little desire to press on. For the anxiety group, individuals described being pressured by time, fear of not knowing what will happen in the future, and obligation to press on. Participants expressed that by identifying what causes them dread or anxiety, they were able to grasp a better understanding of why they felt such emotions, aiding them in finding solutions. PhotoNovella revealed rich, personal, and unique everyday experiences that distinguish feelings of dread from anxiety.