APPLICATIONS!!

Sunday, Sept. 9
AHHHH!!!! APPLICATIONS CAME OUT THURSDAY!! Sorry for waiting so long to post this! BUT... I applied within 3 hours of them posting and GUESS WHAT?!?! I passed the web-based interview! I was totally psyching myself out about it and it was definitely not as hard as I thought it would be. My phone interview is scheduled for tomorrow night (Monday) at 5:30! As soon as I get done writing this post, I'm gonna be practicing interview questions and getting prepared!

SO here's a little on how my day went on the application day (and the application process). First off, they do not announce what time the applications will open, so everyone on the FB page checked at midnight just in case! It was SOO hard to go to sleep! I woke up at least 5 times during the night...and each time, I checked the College Program page :). I finally got out of be around 7:45 and checked the page again, to no avail. I figured that if they didn't go up at midnight, then it would either be at 8am EST (I'm in central time btw) when the work day started or at noon. So when I saw that they weren't up when I woke up, I automatically figured noon. WELL, Disney is a trickster! Sneaky, sneaky! After I got ready for class, I just decided to check the page ONE LAST TIME but honestly, I didn't think they would be up. So the page began loading.....and then.....BAM! The application link was there! I had a little conniption fit in the middle of my dorm room! EXCITEMENT! :) Unfortunately, I didn't have time to do the application before class :( It was so funny though. I was sitting in Business Finance and the ONLY thing I remember was that someone asked a question about Disney! I could not pay attention for anything! I covered a page of my notebook with Disney doodles, and I fidgeted the whole time, and I probably looked at my watch 60 times in the hour and 15 mins that we have to be in class.

As soon as the professor said class was over I bolted over to the Healthplex (I had to get my allergy shot) and then ran to my room. I sat on the futon and immediately started the application. The first thing you had to do was fill out your basic information (name, address, email, phone #, etc.). Then you filled out all of your past job experience INCLUDING volunteer work. I ended up having to call recruiting to see how to enter the information on that because they only have an "employer," "field," "job title," and "start date/end date." With the volunteer work that I've done, its like all separate cause with my tribe (my college's version of a sorority) we have to have 8 hours of community service, but it's all, like, a hour here, 2 hours there...blah, blah, etc, etc. So for all you future appliers, you just need to put what type of community service and a general date of how long. Anyway, after that, you get to the list of role. There are 20 options and you mark high, moderate, low, or no interest. I was very lenient and I marked 8 high interest--Character Performer, Attractions, Merchandising, BBB, Lifeguarding, Vacation Planner, Photopass, and I think the last one was either Character Attendant or Costuming. I think I had a few moderate, a couple lows, and 4 no interest (Transportation, Custodial, Housekeeping, and Concierge).

After that, you have to wait 1-3 hours before you get the email for the web interview. My wait time was 1 hour and 15 mins. The web interview is in 3 parts. The first part is verifying your information. In the 2nd part, you have some multiple choice questions. For example, they asked "What would you do if a 4 year old was hammering something, and he smashed his finger?" The answer choices were 1) Comfort him, 2) Treat the wound, 3) Try to take his mind off of it/make him laugh, or 4) ignore him. I think I put 1 as my answer. Most of those were situational questions. You have 50 seconds to answer and then it would take you to the next question. Then second part was the strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, or strongly agree part. That part was fairly easy. Make sure you don't do many neutrals! I think I did 2...Disney wants STRONG answers. After the web interview you immediately know whether you can schedule a phone interview. You will then get an email with the link to schedule. When I did mine it was REALLY slow (so if you apply the first day, that's likely to happen). I ended up scheduling for Monday, Sept. 10th at 5:30pm.


Mon. Sept 17th
SO SO SO sorry for not posting! I've been so crazy busy with school and stuff that I just HAVE NOT had ANY free time at all. So I will post about the phone interview now as well :)
I had my interview at 5:30pm after I got off work. She called 2 minutes late but that's ok :) the first thing we did was verify my information, then she said she would ask why I want to work for Disney, and ask about my past work experience, and role specifics. She was SOO sweet and upbeat, and that kind of made me less nervous. I had this great paragraph written down about why I want to work for Disney, but I changed it up a little so I wouldn't sound like I was reading from a paper. I would advise anyone else applying to practice some of the harder questions, just so you have time to think them through. Anyways, my interviewer and I bonded over the fact that we both like to sing. She asked me what I would do if a task was repetitive and I told her that I would probably start singing, and she said she does the same thing! After that, the interview was fantastic! We laughed a lot and I felt like I had some really good answers. :) Then began the wait...

Today is day 10 of the wait process. I just heard like 20 mins ago that Spring Advantage letters have just started going out SOOO, I COULD GET ACCEPTED TODAY!!!!!!!!!! I am so so so excited and nervous. For the past 2 days, Spring acceptance emails have been coming out, but no SA, so all of us on the FB group have been freaking out. I know that if God wants me to be in the College Program, he will put me there no matter how many ppl apply, but it still makes me anxious because I have based so much of my future on this. I know, I know, I should let God handle it all, but sometimes it is hard to put all of your trust in him. My constant prayer the past 10 days has been for God to help me give all the trust to him. :)

Well I'll let yall know what happens!! :)