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Sunday, September 21, 2014

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

Google's Head Of HR: These Are The Biggest Mistakes You Can Make On Your Résumé

Business Insider: A bad resume can knock you out of the running for a job that you deserve, no matter how illustrious your work history.
Laszlo Bock, Google's senior vice president of people operations for the past eight years, would know.
Google sometimes gets more than 50,000 resumes in a single week, and Bock has personally reviewed more than 20,000.

Is Diagon Alley really a game-changer for the theme park industry?

www.themeparkinsider.com: Universal Orlando's new Wizarding World of Harry Potter — Diagon Alley clearly sets a new standard for themed entertainment environments in the United States. No other theme park land in the country so thoroughly infuses its space with all the elements that transport visitors into its narrative.

The World Wide Theater at Our Fingertips

HowlRound: Theater practitioners have a conflicted relationship with internet technology as it relates to performance. Sure, it’s great for conducting ticket sales, but most people in the industry have taken a stance against internet-using in a theatrical space. Whether it’s “tweet seats,” streaming performances, or social media management, the internet has been stigmatized in the theater industry as a necessary nuisance. However, this is in reaction to a clunky attempt to integrate the internet into the theater. What if we rethink the very nature of the web’s potential to shape theater?

Stagehands the foundation of Made in America

Philly.com: Nothing stopped stagehand James Pisano, 25, from reporting for work at Made in America for a 5 a.m. call Sunday.
Not his Saturday shift, which ended at 3 a.m. Sunday, just two hours before his start time. Not the 90 minutes of a break that he spent in the hospital with not much of an injured wrist.
"Stagehands heal fast," he joked, waiting backstage to unload one of seven two-ton tractor trailers packed with gear for Sunday night's headliner, Kings of Leon.

5 Ways to Get On Your Professor's Good Side

hackerspace.lifehacker.com: I've been teaching intro courses of one form or another for a couple of years now, so I'm gonna share a few tips on how to endear yourself to the average instructor. My hope is that if you're on hackerspace/lifehacker, you're probably the sort of proactive student who's gonna read 'em and go "duh".

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