Bring Your "A" Game: The 10 Career Secrets of the High Achiever

by Robert J. McGovern

The first 10 years of your career can often be the "make it or break it" period. Bring Your "A" Game shows you how to define your career plan early on, with sound advice on how to acquire the critical building blocks and time-tested workplace skills you need to get ahead. Throughout his career, Rob McGovern has employed and mentored hundreds of young professionals. In Bring Your "A" Game , he shares the 10 common attributes that are consistent with career high-achievers, or "A" players, as well as contingency procedures when something goes wrong, such as getting fired, having a stalled career or realizing that you hate your job. Filled with real-life situations, anecdotes, pointed direction and practical methods for dealing with any workplace situation, Bring Your "A" Game is not just another "how to find a job" book - it's a how to have a career book.

304 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2005

Reviews

[Adrienna · Rating 3 out of 5]

"your key goal should be to intercept a lucrative future growth area in the employment market, instead of an area that may be hot today..." (page 36).

I am open to dreams becoming a reality, and trying to figure out futuristic ideas that may benefit others. I've started a small privately owned business March 2009 and see it waning thin, but now I have to believe in the careers that God has shown me through dreams and make it happen. This book also shares the entrepreneurship spirit, goals to profit, and Robert J. McGovern used to own CareerBuilder (a site I use regularly for job hunting services aside from others).

Other lessons taught or to take from the book:
*develop your vision skills
*industry long-term prospects
*thesis about opportunities present
*adopt a problem/solution mindset
*maximize lifelong earnings

"Think of your career as your personal money-making factory that you're always building for the long-term" (page 42).

*Leisure read