Coming Soon: A Severe Shortage of People to Fill Management Jobs

"Bring Your 'A' Game," written by CareerBuilder.com founder, preps young professionals to be tomorrow’s business leaders

McLean, Va., September 7, 2005--Detailing the tried-and-true career advancement secrets that produced the nation's top business leaders, Robert J. McGovern (Rob), the founder of CareerBuilder.com and now mkt10.com, today unveiled his book "Bring Your 'A' Game: The 10 Career Secrets of the High Achiever." This must-have book for the business leaders of tomorrow maps out a proactive plan to set professionals on course today. "Bring Your 'A' Game" (Sourcebooks) is available now at leading bookstores and on amazon.com for $14.95 U.S.

"Bookstores are full of how-to find a job and resume guides," said Rob McGovern "but until today there wasn't a book available that mapped out a plan to equip young- and future professionals to be tomorrow's business leaders." McGovern added, "This book is especially written to address the severe labor shortage that will arise once baby boomers, which hold most of the senior management positions, begin to retire and young professionals are evaluated to fill these positions."

According to McGovern, when the baby boomers retire, it will set off a chain reaction—an occurrence never before seen in the U.S. job market—where attractive management opportunities will exist without qualified workers to fill the vacancies. The question is: what can a young professional do to prepare themselves to gain from this shortage trend? Fortunately theress time to prepare if they act deliberately to improve their career potential.

The problem of preparedness is one that can be traced to the "dot-com" era of the 1990s with only a select few surviving such as Careerbuilder.com. The false hope of the 90’s economy led to a generation of talented professionals unprepared to take over. These individuals were told to "make their own rules" and "be free agents," instead of laying a true foundation for a solid career in corporate America. Given this, we have a perfect storm just ahead of us where millions of management job openings will be vacant and few qualified candidates will exist to fill the openings.

"Bring Your 'A' Game" provides McGovern's 10 simple but must-have skills required for success, skills that many of Gen Xers generation unfortunately missed. Drawing on his impressive expertise as a successful entrepreneur and a professional skills developer, the book details the tried-and-true career advancement secrets that produced the nation's top business leaders by offering real-world answers for real people wanting to work hard to be successful.

Top 10 skills such as:

1. A formal self-developed career plan
2. The ability to do the easy "stuff" well
3. A willingness to be coached
4. An action-oriented curiosity
5. The ability to communicate clearly
6. Superior people skills
7. The ability to handle corporate combat
8. The ability to learn by observation
9. Resourceful problem solving skills
10. The ability to make sound career choices

About the Author
Robert J. McGovern is a serial entrepreneur focused on sharing his career expertise and entrepreneurial spirit. Rob was the founder and former Chairman and CEO of CareerBuilder Corporation, which he sold to Tribune and Knight Ridder in 2000 and 2002. Most recently, McGovern founded mkt10.com (pronounced Market 10), an online job marketplace for Top Performers based in the D.C.-metro area, where he serves as the company’s CEO. McGovern also advises national leading venture capital firms and technology companies on strategic issues like hiring and recruiting a winning executive team, mergers and acquisitions.

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