Your interviewer wants to know whether you're happy with the status quo and prefer to cruise along, day in and day out, or if you have ambitions and goals. If you have goals, they are curious about how well you've done in attaining them, and how you've grown professionally over the last five years. One's self-development should be as never-ending as one's determination.

If you haven't already, put together a couple of five-year career plans. Start with creating one starting five years ago and ending with where you saw yourself being today. Then update that five-year plan every year, until you get to today, creating another five-year plan starting fresh from where you are standing today. Following this exercise, you should be ready to revise your five-year career plan every year, determining again where you are and building from there, adjusting your trajectory accordingly. This offers insight into where your career goals have taken you over the last five years, as well as your perspective of the times when things didn't go according to plan.

Discuss what you learned along the way over the last five years in your career journey, and how those experiences helped your career path in ways you hadn't expected. Attitude is everything.