If you are planning to enter the job market anytime soon, it is more than likely that you may be invited to attend a ‘behavioural interview’. Behavioural interviews have been the norm for a long time in government, corporates, professional services, universities and graduate/internship programs, but they are also starting to become common place in interviews at much smaller organisations.
Changing careers can be overwhelming at the best of times but it is particularly so when you are changing careers after being well-established in one career for over a decade. Unfortunately, many people did not have the luxury of extensive career counseling at school or university, and as a result, we fell into career paths that were popular at the time or were based on the ill-informed advice of well-meaning parents and relatives.
