Career Mapping is a guide for finding your dream job straight out of college or for making a career move—whether the move is to a higher rent district or to a different block in the same neighborhood. Think of it as your personal Global Positioning System (GPS) with an unobstructed line of sight to your destination.

Ginny developed a specific process that enables you to create your own unique career map. (A template can be found at the end of the book.) Whether you are entering the job market for the first time or you're a chief executive officer contemplating your next move, using this career map will help you sort out your options and give you confidence that you are heading in the right direction. You can refer to Career Mapping again and again as you move through the stages of your career. Just as pilots are constantly correcting for various factors en route to their destinations, small adjustments in response to feedback and stimuli are in order if you hope to touch down safely where you intended.

Career Mapping draws on your strengths and provides key insights that crack the code of how to be successful on your own terms. It's a code you already have, though you may not know it. If you are willing to do the hard but rewarding work of self-discovery that Ginny guides you through in this book, then—like the hundreds of executives Ginny has placed in top-level jobs—you will be rewarded.

Career Mapping draws on your strengths and provides key insights that crack the code of how to be successful on your own terms. It's a code you already have, though you may not know it. If you are willing to do the hard but rewarding work of self-discovery that Ginny guides you through in this book, then—like the hundreds of executives Ginny has placed in top-level jobs—you will be rewarded. There are no shortcuts. You must assess your starting point and be willing to read the signs and decode aspects of your past—as well as establish targets for your future—in order to create your own unique career map. This guide will point you to a life filled with meaning and purpose that only you can design.