{WHAT'S ON YOUR KINDLE?} JOHN NERAL ON YOUR MID-CAREER GPS: FOUR STEPS TO FIGURING OUT WHAT'S NEXT
Are you considering a career change but doubt yourself or get easily overwhelmed by the entire process?
Are you a mid-career professional ready to level-up, but unsure of what steps to take?
What if there was an easy and supportive way to plan your next career destination?
Your Mid-Career GPS will guide you to create your own professional roadmap so you can find the job you love or love the job have. John Neral, Certified Professional Coach, will help you strategically position yourself in the marketplace while teaching you how to leverage your unique skills from a place of value and service for any organization.
Learn how to prepare, position, and promote yourself as you create a tactical and strategic plan by building Your Mid-Career GPS. Let this book be your guide to answer many of the current questions you have about creating your next advancement opportunity.
John Neral, MA, CPC reawakens, energizes, galvanizes, and innovates the mind think of employees, corporations, associations, and systems. A celebrated executive/career and professional development coach and in-demand, mindset-shifting public speaker, John’s professional walk included a 25-year career in education and a longstanding corporate consultant for Fortune 500 giant, Casio America, Inc. He now leads John Neral Coaching, LLC, one of the most progressive, mindset-shifting professional and organizational coaching and public speaking firms in the U.S. He is the author of Your Mid-Career GPS – Four Steps to Figuring Out What’s Next and SHOW UP – Six Strategies to Lead a More Energetic and Impactful Career and the host of “The Mid-Career GPS Podcast.”
As a Master Practitioner in the Energy Leadership Index, John’s experience has made him an impactful and valuable coach to his one-on-one and group coaching clients and organizations. With Energy Leadership™, John identifies where people perform at their optimal levels and when they are under stress. Combining the Energy Leadership™ principles, a client’s workplace strengths, and their “unique professional value,” John helps his clients create their career GPS so they can take action toward achieving their professional and personal goals.
A former church organ prodigy, John is an avid traveler–having sojourned to 5 of the 7 continents, a professional bowler and the winner of a Professional Bowlers’ Association Regional Title (2010), and a game-show fan, having appeared on previous episodes of GSN’s Chain Reaction and Make My Day. John is happily married and lives with his spouse and their rescue cat, Amy Farrah Meowler (named after the Big Bang Theory character), in the heart of Washington DC’s Dulles Technology Corridor, Tysons Corner, VA.
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What was the inspiration behind Your Mid-Career GPS? What sparked the initial idea?
My inspiration behind Your Mid-Career GPS was to provide a resource for mid-career professionals who haven't looked for a job for a while or for those who are overwhelmed by the entire process. I was inspired by my clients and connections who shared their mid-career journeys. Their common theme or pain point is that they feel "stuck" or unsure how to navigate out of their current situation. I wrote this book for them to have one resource to help them get unstuck and start taking action toward whatever is professionally next for them.
Changing careers can be scary. Can you give us a pep talk?
As a mid-career professional, you have a lot of experience that someone wants. Your experiences make you a valuable talent for any company looking for someone with your skills and background. You need to find each other. Lean into your value and skills. Start having conversations with people who might be looking for someone like you. Right now, there are jobs out there - advertised and not. Be resilient. We work because our skills are there to HELP people. Find who you want to help and go after that job.
Can you give us some interview tips?
Practice! Interviewing is a skill, and you can't walk into an interview and think you can get the job without doing your homework and research. Learn as much as you can about the company. Know how to tell your story - better than anyone else - but do it from a place of value and service. Showcase how you can help that company, as evidenced by what they ask in the job description. And lastly, don't talk too long. Monitor your time. Interviews are conversations. Let there be a natural dialogue between you and the interviewer(s). Take time to build the relationship so you both can determine whether or not you are a good fit for each other.
How do you want your readers to come away after reading
your book?
Informed, motivated, and empowered. Your Mid-Career GPS is a book that will help you get out of your own way and take little steps toward creating whatever is next for you and your career. There are over 30 journal prompts in my book to help you think and reflect about where your career is headed and what you want this next stage to be. You are exactly what a company is looking for right now. Just find them.
Do you have other books?
I do. My first book is called "SHOW UP - Six Strategies to Lead a More Energetic and Impactful Career." The book is part memoir and part tactical guide to navigating your life and career. My #SHOWUP6Strategies are there to help you look at your value in life and career differently because of how you choose to SHOW UP in any circumstance. I'm humbled and honored about how well that book has been received and how it has helped people.
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