Career Confidence What it REALLY Takes to TRANSFORM your Career with Mone Vines [Confidence Replay]
Sep 14, 2025
Mone Vines, a Cyber Security Specialist with a previous 13-year career in nursing, shares her inspiring journey of transformation. She discusses how her background in nursing and the Defence Force equipped her with essential skills for cybersecurity. Mone emphasizes the importance of resilience and having a supportive network while navigating significant career changes. She also tackles challenges like imposter syndrome and the gender gap in tech, advocating for increased representation of women in this vital industry.
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From Nurse To Cyber Spark
- Mone describes 13 years in nursing across mental health, wards, emergency and ICU before joining Defence and management roles.
- She discovered cyber after visiting a friend in software testing and researching medical device vulnerabilities which sparked her career pivot.
Cold Reachouts Help You Learn Fast
- Use LinkedIn and cold outreach to learn about roles and people in a new industry.
- Take responsibility for driving your transition by networking and asking direct questions to practitioners.
Certs, Failures, And Persistence
- Mone studied CompTIA certs while learning basic technical concepts and confronting unfamiliar acronyms.
- She passed two exams, failed a third initially, and treated failures as study signals rather than stopping points.
