Plus: Employing Holographic Workers and Revisiting Apollo Landing Sites.

Airport in Paris Employs Holographic Staff Members
The Orly airport in Paris, France, recently began experimenting with virtual staff members. There, lifelike holographic displays of boarding agents give directions to passengers without having to take breaks and without ever losing their temper in an often-stressful working environment.

Three live boarding agents were filmed in a studio to create the holograms, which are rear-projected onto a human-shaped Plexiglas silhouette, according to the Associated Press. Airport officials hope the holographic system will help with organizing boarding gates and provide some fun for passengers.

Memorable Résumé Mistakes
In a 2010 interview, career management coach Debbie Shalom told us that a standout résumé should “contain three key elements: strategic planning, authenticity and achievement-based actions.” What it shouldn’t contain is a listing of your pet as a job reference.

In a recent CareerBuilder.com survey of more than 2,600 employers nationwide, human resource managers and hiring managers shared details from the most memorable and unusual résumés they’ve encountered. Among them:

• Candidate was fired from several jobs, but included each as a reference;
• Candidate listed her dog as a reference;
• Candidate listed the ability to do the moonwalk as a special skill;
• Candidate included “versatile toes” as a selling point;
• Candidate said he just wanted an opportunity to show off his new tie;
• Candidate included that she survived a bite from a deadly aquatic animal;
• Candidate insisted the company pay him to interview because his time was valuable;
• Candidate included that he was arrested for assaulting his previous boss; and
• Candidate said he would be a “good asset to the company,” but failed to include the “et” in “asset.”

The goal of crafting a résumé is to stand out from the other candidates, offering a direct statement of your skills, experience and career trajectory that leads to an interview that ultimately secures you the desired job. You want the document to grab an employer’s attention quickly and leave a positive impression. But you need to ensure your résumé makes you stand out for the right reasons.

Revisiting Apollo Landing Sites
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths made when astronauts explored the lunar surface.

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Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/ASU

“That is Apollo 12, my friends, the location where humans showed that not only can we explore other worlds, but we can do it more than once,” Bad Astronomy‘s Phil Plait writes. “And those squiggly lines? That’s where the dust was disturbed by the astronauts’ bootprints as they walked around.”

At the Apollo 17 site, the tracks laid down by the lunar rover are clearly visible, along with the last foot trails left on the moon.

The images also show where the astronauts placed some of the scientific instruments that provided the first insight into the moon’s environment and interior.

“You are actually seeing physical evidence of human beings walking on the surface of another world,” Plait says.

Cheers.