On a résumé, learn to sell yourself
An applicant used to be competing with about 250 résumés, now it's 1,000, says the president of a Web service that helps job seekers.

Reinvent yourself: Find new uses for old job skills
The key, says George Lowe, who "graduated" from Ford in May 2000 when he took an early retirement deal, was finding new uses for the skills he had learned as a Ford manager. "I was thinking about what I wanted to do next well before the time came to depart Ford."

The other you: What's on your 'invisible' résumé?
Having an up-to-date résumé is a must. But there's another kind of résumé you might find extremely useful: the "invisible" résumé.

To get ahead, people will put just about anything on their résumé
David Edmondson, chief executive officer at RadioShack for less than a year, resigned in shame recently after a newspaper revealed he had lied on his résumé about having two college degrees when in fact he had none.