Your Passport to a Cyber Security Career #3 | How Do We Pivot? | EP 32

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In Episode 3 of "Your passport to a cybersecurity career", host Jalpa interviews well known public speaking coach Emily Edgeley who has successfully pivoted her career more than once. Emily has an effective story telling style and depicts her career story in a beautiful way. Make sure to follow till the end to find out her advice on how to break into cybersecurity. Emily helps people in tech to communicate with more clarity, impact & confidence. She is a sought after public speaking coach for giving someone the confidence and tools to nail their work presentation or even take the stage for the first time. She has supported conferences such as Black Hat Las Vegas, SANS Awareness Summit, B-sides Melbourne, ANZ UnConf, Seven Delivery Summit, WIS Conf to name a few. Synopsis: Emily starts with sharing that she studied Maths and picked up some skills which were useful in cybersecurity roles realising when looking back retrospectively. She wasn't aware of the transferable skills at the time but some of the skills she learnt during initial call centre role such as analytical skills, treating everyone with respect and communication. Next, Emily provides valuable tips for a job seeker on landing interviews and excelling in hiring the process.

Emily highlights the role of mentor to help cybersecurity aspirants to connect the dots between their transferable skills and how they can add value to the cybersecurity role(s). Lastly, Emily covers how important it is to hire based on the attitude and soft skills; not entirely based on technical skills. As tech skills can be taught along the way as well however the personality and attitude go a long way. Connect with Emily on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-edgeley/ For more information on public speaking tips and tool, visit Emily's website www.emilyedgeley.com Here's the link to Jalpa's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhavsarjalpa/ Join our Cyber Risk Meetup community if you haven't already: ⁠https://www.cyberriskmeetup.com/⁠