Ginny Clarke - Career Mapping: Charting Your Course in the New World of Work

Ginny Clarke has formulated a brilliant map to success. It combines strategy, discipline, self-reliance, and passion all things I believe in as a coach and former corporate executive.

~ CRAIG ROBINSON, MENS BASKETBALL COACH, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY; AUTHOR, A GAME OF CHARACTER

An inspiring book of global proportions, Career Mapping goes far beyond writing a rsum and pounding the streets. Its a book that gives people tools and insights to empower themselves and to make conscious, constructive choices throughout their lives. Get ready for a great lesson in the real world; a lesson I wish Id had early in my career.

~ GARY E. MCCULLOUGH, CEO CAREER EDUCATION CORPORATION

As my father John H. Johnson said, To succeed, one must be creative and persistent. I am adding that you must also know how to map your career with Ginny Clarke as your guide. This is a life-changing book!

~ LINDA JOHNSON RICE, CHAIRMAN, JOHNSON PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHERS OF EBONY AND JET MAGAZINES.

Truly inspiring! This is a GPS that helps you plot a course to success based upon your own unique journey markers. In Career Mapping, Ginny Clarke takes the mystery and the complexity out of overwhelming career decisions. She helps you to be proactive and in doing so gain the confidence that comes from clarity about your motivators as well as your goals and aspirations. This is one of those books youll keep close to the desk in your home office and read and re-read over the course of your journey.

~ BRIDGETTE HELLER, PRESIDENT, MERCK CONSUMER CARE

I found Career Mapping to be utterly authentic and rich with insight and detail. It offers the reader much more than facts and figures or war stories listing the Dos and Donts of career building. Instead, this book offers advice in the context of our lives and not separate from our lives. We are not our careers. We are not our jobs or our work. We are not our maps. We are people and when it comes to finding our way in life, Ginny lets us know that we have the power to create it. She shares aspects of her own remarkable life and career that are gifts to anyone who opens these pages.

~ NAT IRVIN, II, THE W.M. STRICKLER EXECUTIVE IN RESIDENCE AND PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT, UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE, COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

Great leaders make conscious decisions about their careers. Ginny Clarke has created the new go-to career guide for everyone from college students to CEOs.

~ SUSAN LUCIA ANNUNZIO, PRESIDENT & CEO, CENTER FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE; AUTHOR, CONTAGIOUS SUCCESS, ELEADERSHIP AND COMMUNI-CODING.

No matter the age and stage of your career, Career Mapping will help reposition you for the next big thing. Ginny Clarke gives valuable and specific insights for the new college grad to the old school Boomer executive. If you dont know where you are going next, you need a career map!

~ JOHN E. KOBARA, AUTHOR, A DOPTING THE MENTORING AND NETWORKING LIFESTYLE

A must-read for every woman in the workplace and man, for that matter! This watershed career management book deserves a place on your desk. Youll want to revisit it again and again no matter where you are in your journey.

~ GAIL EVANS, AUTHOR, PLAY LIKE A MAN, WIN LIKE A WOMAN AND SHE WINS, YOU WIN

CHARTING YOUR COURSE

IN THE NEW WORLD OF WORK

GINNY CLARKE

AND ECHO GARRETT

NEW YORK

Career Mapping

Charting Your Course in the New World of Work By Ginny Clarke and Echo Garrett 2011 Ginny Clarke. All Rights Reserved.

1. Job Search 2. Career Management 3. Career Coaching 4. Employment 5. Career Mapping 6. Executive Coaching

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DEDICATION

HE WHO KNOWS NOT,

AND KNOWS NOT THAT HE KNOWS NOT,

IS A FOOL SHUN HIM.

HE WHO KNOWS NOT,

AND KNOWS THAT HE KNOWS NOT,

IS A CHILD TEACH HIM.

HE WHO KNOWS,

AND KNOWS NOT THAT HE KNOWS,

IS ASLEEP WAKE HIM.

HE WHO KNOWS,

AND KNOWS THAT HE KNOWS,

IS WISE FOLLOW HIM.

~ PERSIAN PROVERB

WHAT GINNY CLARKE DOES IN THIS BOOK IS SOMETHING THAT FEW HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH IN THIS ECONOMYPROVIDE HOPE. Hope for those looking for a job or just wanting to make a change, but too afraid to try. Hope for employers overwhelmed by the sheer volume of applicants and scarcity of matches for the jobs that they are trying to fill. And, hope for policymakers, desperate for ways to accelerate and streamline the process of matching the unemployed with prospective employers. There is literally something for everyone, young and old, working or not, in the pages that follow. Her expertise is in the fast-paced world of executive recruitment, but her wisdom and insights into todays job market are universal, even if you no longer feel relevant in this economy.