"One of the greatest risks I have taken in my career was to jump from staffing into the finance world. I wanted to be in a role that included more strategic numbers but still had a sales component. I made that leap about five years ago and had never looked back!"

You can't grow if you're not willing to risk getting outside of your comfort zone! Talk about results, what you learned, and how you've grown from your experience. Give an example that exhibits sound judgment and calculated risks, and thinking on your feet! Sometimes you have to take a risk by trusting your judgment when a supervisor is not available and solving the problem in the way you know best. A risk for you may have been changing careers after working in the same job for ten years. Or maybe you interviewed for a promotion even though you knew it was going to be highly competitive.

"I was hired as a widget developer. Not much later they were promoted to management. This was rewarding, and I learned a lot about the business. But after a while, I felt like my career was veering in a direction I hadn't intended. The pay was quite good, but I felt like the change I wanted to make was in widget development. Armed with a better understanding of how the business worked, I was ready to make a change and demoted myself, taking a serious pay cut. But the leaps and strides I made in developing widgets increased our profits, and in a couple of years they awarded me a team and I surpassed the income I made when I was in management."

Avoid examples where you went outside of the chain of command. You want to come across as an innovator and risk-taker, working for the greater good, with integrity.