First Aid for Your Résumé

These are desperate times for many job seekers, but you can avoid desperate-looking and time-wasting measures when putting together and marketing your résumé.

In Favre's Favor

Maybe we should all take a leaf out of Brett Favre's playbook. Not the last-minute interception: The delayed retirement. Columnist Brett Arends makes the case for staying in the workforce as long as possible.

How to Manage Stress When You're the Boss

If there's one truth about running a business, it's this: Stress happens. Here are tips on how to avoid a meltdown.

• For Many Entrepreneurs, Running the Show is Stressful

Handling the Office Baby Boom

As a growing number of employers face boomlets in fertility, some are finding there are benefits to dealing with several expectant employees at once.

• Mailbox: Getting the Housecleaning Done

Office Sharing Among Strangers

For telecommuters or the self-employed, there are a number of shared, or "coworking," spaces where they can get the perks of a conventional office. Cranky Consumer tests out facilities in four cities.

Cheat Sheet for Keeping Resolutions

Columnist Sue Shellenbarger tracks down people who have stuck to their New Year's resolutions to explore what separates the winners from the losers.

• Listen: What it takes to keep a resolution
• Vote: What is the longest you've kept a resolution?
• Vote: What kind of resolution will you make?
• Work & Family Mailbox
• Video: A New Year ... Same Resolutions

Making Up for Lost Bonuses

On Wall Street, they are calling the current bonus season a "make-up" year. Meanwhile, finance executives have to "make up" new formulas for compensation.

How Much Is a College Degree Worth?

Families are evaluating the reasons to pursue higher education and how much tuition they want to pay.

• Work & Family Mailbox
• Readers React: 'Education changed my life'

Many Unsolicited Job Offers Are Scams

Columnist Sue Shellenbarger answers readers' questions about working from home, time management and tuition assistance for Native Americans.

MBA Students Still Banking on Finance

Despite thousands of career casualties, the crisis has not made MBA students any less eager to charge into the front lines of finance.

On Women and Working

The Journal's Laura Landro reviews a trio of new books that offer advice to women about getting ahead at the office—and finding some peace if they "opt out"

Limit Help With Homework

Columnist Sue Shellenbarger answers readers' questions on work and family, including how much help parents should give a first-grader with homework.

Pop-Up King Made Books Jump to Life

Waldo Hunt led a renaissance of pop-up books, turning eye-catching marketing into a literary subgenre. Mr. Hunt died Nov. 7 at the age of 88.

• Video: Pop-Up Artist Explains Craft

The Unemployment Cushion

Unemployment in some areas of the country is not as bad as it could be, thanks in part to more households having multiple incomes.

Getting Back to School

Business-school applicants have to juggle their real-world work with GMAT-taking, applications and dozens of essays. Here's how to handle M.B.A. application season.