How to be a Successful Working Mum - Working in Commercial Recruitment

If your job involves travelling, I have a few tips for you. I travel interstate a lot for my role and have done since my son was 12 months.

Try to plan your trips to intrude as little as possible on your family life, whatever this may mean to your own individual situation. If it means you have a crazy early start – do it, just have a Berocca or an extra coffee that day, you'll be fine (come on you have been through childbirth, you can do anything).

If you are driving to a destination for your business trip, see if you can bring the family along, try to bring your partner or someone to look after the kids while you are at work and make a mini holiday out of it. If you are flying and you have family or friends in the city you are in, see if you can bring along the rest of the family. Ask if the company will consider paying for an extra flight in lieu of paying for accommodation or meals, you will be surprised that is works out the same cost or sometimes cheaper. Maybe stay the weekend if you can and enjoy a family holiday.