Not Your Friend

Good / Bad / Right / Wrong;
Try to stop thinking in right & wrong or good & bad, they are only other people’s options.
It will be more likely that there is a simple chose that needs to be made, right & wrong does not come into it, there are two paths in front of you and you have to chose one, make a chose and stick with it.

Hope;
Also known as self delusion, this will destroy a recruiter faster than anything else.
It generally come from when a recruiter can find good candidate to put over, what happens is if you send bad candidates, by the time your into the process you have convinced yourself they weren’t that bad, then even quite good.
Your client rejects them, then all of a sudden it’s your clients fault, leaving you with the feeling of it’s all pointless.
Don’t be a Muppet, if you can’t find good candidates, look harder and don’t waist everybody’s time sending bad ones.

Fear;
Never ever work from a point of weakness, if something scares you, just do it until it does not.
Do not fear not making the placement, you should be looking to take the cycle to its natural conclusion and that is not always a placement.