Gen Y: Take Responsibility for Your Career Development

Career development, whose responsibility is it? Sure, companies can and should offer mentoring, training and explicit paths for employees to grow their careers. But in a video teaser for the upcoming "Why Gen Y Wants to Work 'With' You, Not 'For' You" panel at SXSW, Jenny Blake, who works in career development at Google and blogs at Life After College, argues that Gen Y often doesn't do enough to take responsibility for their own career development. Her argument in this quick but thought-provoking video: it's your career â€" own it (but managers you're not entirely off the hook).