I don't think that companies are effective at guiding your career. I tell folks every time I can: take responsibility for your own career and development, or ri

I don't think that companies are effective at guiding your career. I tell folks every time I can: take responsibility for your own career and development, or risk one day waking up, looking in the mirror at an obsolete person. That is a risk you cannot take. If you are hoping that HR or "the company" will train you, you have abdicated the single most important determinant of your overall professional worth.