Anna Belak: Acquiring skills to make you into a unicorn. [Thought Leadership] [Career Notes]

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🗓️ 7 August 2022

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Anna Belak, Director of Thought Leadership at Sysdig, shares her story from physics to cyber. Anna explains how she went into college with the thinking of getting a physics degree and then for her PhD decided to switch to material science and engineering. Both were not something she enjoyed and ultimately decided to go into cyber. She shares some advice on how you should never limit yourself to your degree, as well as always learning new skills and honing in on skills you already have. She say's by doing these things it will make you into a unicorn, meaning if you are good at one thing and teach yourself to be good at something else, you will become that much more valuable. Anna hopes she makes an impact with the people she works with, she hopes they will want to work with her even long after she leaves a company. We thank Anna for sharing her story.

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2:03.0	Hello, my name is.
2:09.0	Hello, my name is Anna Bellick and I am the Director of Thought Leadership at Sizdig, a cloud and
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