Working with headhunters can be a tricky issue. Just like any other business, there are headhunters who are genuinely concerned about their candidates and have their clients’ best interest at heart, while others who are out to make a fortune out of unsuspecting clients by doing sub-standard work.

This, however, should not deter you in using a headhunter in fulfilling your staffing needs. After all, sourcing for best candidates for their clients’ vacancies is what they do for a living – they have expertise and network that you may not have. In dealing with headhunters, all you need to have in mind are some ground rules:

Time Off

I get asked a lot about time off and how I manage to take so much of it to play.

Many years ago one of my mentors taught me that human body is like a multi-billion dollar racehorse. If you owned that horse, how much time off would you give it in between races?

The answer seems simple enough, but somehow we get caught up in stress of day-to-day life and we forget to rest. And I mean really rest!

I know that putting in 18-hour days is not uncommon for me because I love what I do. I am sure that you also just go, go, go...all time between work, parenting, friends, exercise, problems, etc.

One of best practices that I took on many years ago is what I call my six weeks on, one week off routines. Here's how it goes...I play full out for six weeks, then full off for one week.

This gives me chance to really unwind and do zip, nada, nothing. I get a chance to totally rejuvenate, and what I've found is that I am so ready to get back to creation once I am truly rested, that I am ten times more productive.