Bettina Seidman is a well-known career management coach in private practice in Manhattan. She founded SEIDBET Associates in 1990, after a 20-year career in human resources management. Bettina provides career counseling and professional coaching services to individuals and organizations in the corporate and nonprofit sectors. She works with her clients as a thinking partner, providing career and job transition counseling services in person and long distance by telephone - including assessment, goal setting, networking tactics, resume development, and interviewing & negotiating strategies.

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 Handling Discriminatory Questions in an Interview
by Bettina Seidman - Mar, 2010
An applicant involved in an employment interview is anxious to please, to impress, and to persuade. And that is as it should be. However, from time to time inappropriate personal questions are asked, which may make an applicant uncomfortable. As a Career Management Coach, I suggest...
 
 15 Tips To Help You With a Stalled Job Search
by Bettina Seidman - Mar, 2010
• Evaluate whether you are looking for work you think you can get rather than shooting for what you’d really like to do. • Review the major job-hunting methods and devote more time to the entire job search process. • Open up new approaches including looking at more than one industr...
 
 Networking Tips for Introverts (and aren’t we all sometimes)
by Bettina Seidman - Nov, 2009
There are several ideas Introverts can think about and focus on in order to make networking activities more comfortable and more successful. When I refer to Introverts, I mean as defined by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator – a definition based on where you get your energy. Extroverts ...
 
 Things Hardly Anybody Will Tell You About Job Search
by Bettina Seidman - Oct, 2009
* It is important to have a clear goal in mind about what kind of work you want to do * Use all job search techniques: postings and search firms (low yielding) and targeting and networking (high yielding) Postings – It is helpful to write a customized cover letter whenever you resp...
 
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