The Official 2013 Fall Professional Internship Thread!

[cagirl4life]

Glad to hear your interview went well! I have a couple of questions: Are you interviewing for the summer engineering PI or fall? Also, on the PIs my son applied for (both summer and fall, both this year and 2012) their was a mention of a desired requirement for fluency in mandarin. Was this brought up at all? My son is NOT fluent in mandarin and was hoping this will not be his downfall! Funny, last year he waited so long for an interview (and never got one!), we said he probably could LEARN mandarin in the time he was waiting!

I applied for both summer and fall and then both WDW and DLR. No they did not ask about Mandarin but I think in the application it asked it (I applied for too many so I can't remember). That was only on the WDW ones so it must have something to do with one of those jobs and I am in no mean fluent in mandarin. And thanks! Hopefully some pixie dust will fall upon your son and he will get an interview soon!

 

[heaven2dc]

Then I think I just got it... Applied back in mid December, heard nothing until yesterday when a 407 number called. The job was offered five minutes into the conversation, but they have to check and see if they can push the start date back a week for my exams before it's finalized. Nothing's on the dashboard, feels kinda surreal.

Congrats!! What internship were you offered?

 

[heaven2dc]

I was checking my Dashboard tonight and noticed that one of the PI's I applied for is now "in progress". I'm "in progress" for DL CP (well actually pending) so I wonder if they will use my interview from the CP or email me for an interview.

It's the WDPRO Finance Internship which I interviewed for last year (I was in "interview" stage up until the last week that they were making decisions and got denied). Has anyone ever been accepted for a PI without an interview or at least they considered you based on a separate interview like the CP? I also applied to the Disneyland Resorts Park Events & Ticket Sales Internship again this year but no word yet. I'm going to go crazy checking my emails and Dashboard over the next few weeks!!

 

[kcrichard]

Congrats!! What internship were you offered?

Thanks! It's with Engineering Services at MK.

Also, good luck to everyone! If you don't get a PI this summer or fall, I highly recommend doing the CP and taking Disney classes that are relevant to your interests.

 

[marykate14]

Congrats!!

 

[FieryPixieDust]

So I just applied last night. I do question though, people have been applying for 2-4 internships. I clicked seven of them. I think I panicked and clicked on all the jobs I liked/was qualified for. Are you only supposed to zero in on a few? Because now I worry that I cast my line way too broadly.

I worked as a CP as an undergrad senior and now I'm graduating in May with a Masters in Education. So what I really want is either the Disney Traditions Internship or Disney University Leadership Development Internship or College & International Program Education Professional Internship.

Does anyone have any experience with these roles or know what the interviews are like? Any help would be appreciated!

 

[sfgadv02]

Hey everyone, I just applied for the Finance/Accounting PI, am I suppose to wait for them to ask me to schedule an interview? After I applied, I noticed there were 8 purple bars next to the job application, but I did not see anything that symbolizes the steps of each bar.

 

[delmar411]

Hey everyone, I just applied for the Finance/Accounting PI, am I suppose to wait for them to ask me to schedule an interview? After I applied, I noticed there were 8 purple bars next to the job application, but I did not see anything that symbolizes the steps of each bar.

yes they will email you if they want to schedule an interview.

The bars are:

1- Submission
2- In Progress
3-?
4- Interview Stage
5- Post Interview Stage
6- Offer Stage
7- Post Offer Stage
8-?

 

[marykate14]

I've already completed my first interview but my status has never changed from "in progress" - is that weird?

 

[delmar411]

I've already completed my first interview but my status has never changed from "in progress" - is that weird?

Not this round. This round they are just leaving people in progress. Maybe it will change with 2nd interviews.

 

[Cais]

So I just applied last night. I do question though, people have been applying for 2-4 internships. I clicked seven of them. I think I panicked and clicked on all the jobs I liked/was qualified for. Are you only supposed to zero in on a few? Because now I worry that I cast my line way too broadly.

I worked as a CP as an undergrad senior and now I'm graduating in May with a Masters in Education. So what I really want is either the Disney Traditions Internship or Disney University Leadership Development Internship or College & International Program Education Professional Internship.

Does anyone have any experience with these roles or know what the interviews are like? Any help would be appreciated!

I've been the Traditions intern since last June. Our interview is a lot of explaining what the role actually entails (we have to explicitly tell people that you do not facilitate traditions classes as an intern) with situational questions thrown in for good measure. It's a lot of work behind the scenes making sure our classes run smoothly and it's an amazing team. At one point I was the only coordinator on the team and absorbed a lot of responsibilities all at once, but now that we are back to full strength it'll be interesting to see how responsibilities get rearranged.

I definitely strongly recommend not applying for more than about three PIs. Any more and you create the impression that you are shotgunning your résumé in an attempt to see what sticks.

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[jtwescoat]

Well that is unfortunate. I applied for 12 but only because I match all of the qualifications and they are positions I would love to do. Hope that doesn't disqualify me.

 

[heaven2dc]

Well that is unfortunate. I applied for 12 but only because I match all of the qualifications and they are positions I would love to do. Hope that doesn't disqualify me.

I felt the same way as you last year when I applied to several PI's (I think I applied to 8). However, I did get picked to be interviewed for 3 of them and was actually in "interview" stage until the final week of decisions. During the interview, the recruiter mentioned that I had applied to several but mentioned that she could see my desire to work for Disney and that they were all related so it didn't seem to be much of an issue. But then I didn't get in so maybe it was after all. This time I only applied to 3 and am "in progress" for one of them.

Good luck to you!

 

[mrsxsparrow]

So I just applied last night. I do question though, people have been applying for 2-4 internships. I clicked seven of them. I think I panicked and clicked on all the jobs I liked/was qualified for. Are you only supposed to zero in on a few? Because now I worry that I cast my line way too broadly.

Well that is unfortunate. I applied for 12 but only because I match all of the qualifications and they are positions I would love to do. Hope that doesn't disqualify me.

I applied for at least ten and ended up with my top choice. I just gave my interviewer my top three and explained why I really wanted those, but let her know that I really was interested in the others as well for various reasons. My case might be a little different because I made my own major in college by combining a little of a lot of different majors so I am qualified for a range of things, but as long as you can explain why you want what you applied for I don't think it necessarily hurts you to be a little broad.

 

[jtwescoat]

Did they ask you for your top choices in your initial screening interview or 2nd interview? They didn't ask in my initial one.

 

[mrsxsparrow]

Did they ask you for your top choices in your initial screening interview or 2nd interview? They didn't ask in my initial one.

My initial. I got NLIC'ed from a few non-alum PI's before an interview, so my interview was only for alum-only ones I had selected (which was 8 I believe?) and 1 non-alum PI. I never had a second interview.

 

[cagirl4life]

Well that is unfortunate. I applied for 12 but only because I match all of the qualifications and they are positions I would love to do. Hope that doesn't disqualify me.

I applied for 11. Of those 8 of them are for engineering so its all the same requirements (3 are exactly the same job just different time and location) and I have already been NLIC for one of them (computer threw me out of running, still cannot figure that one out). Then 3 where non-engineering that either where in contact with engineering (WDI contracts administrator and theme park ops MI) and one that just seemed really interesting to me (Disneyland Resort University PI) sadly all 3 of those went NLIC. As long as they are kind of centralized in area it shouldn't hurt to apply to multiple. Just don't apply to every single one you have the basic requirements for.

 

[Disney4life222]

Wow just got NLIC for three out of the eight internships I applied for and all at 1:00PM today. Guess I wasn't as qualified as I thought for those few. Geez no one does rejection like Disney lol! At least they are getting the ball rolling on these and that I know I will still be going for the College Program!!

 

[DD at the U]

Wow just got NLIC for three out of the eight internships I applied for and all at 1:00PM today. Guess I wasn't as qualified as I thought for those few. Geez no one does rejection like Disney lol! At least they are getting the ball rolling on these and that I know I will still be going for the College Program!!

What internships did you apply for? I'm interested to see which programs are really starting to make decisions. I was thinking most would wait til the March 8th deadline... Goodluck with your other PIs!! Maybe that means you made it through one round of cuts for the others

 

[FieryPixieDust]

I've been the Traditions intern since last June. Our interview is a lot of explaining what the role actually entails (we have to explicitly tell people that you do not facilitate traditions classes as an intern) with situational questions thrown in for good measure. It's a lot of work behind the scenes making sure our classes run smoothly and it's an amazing team. At one point I was the only coordinator on the team and absorbed a lot of responsibilities all at once, but now that we are back to full strength it'll be interesting to see how responsibilities get rearranged.

I definitely strongly recommend not applying for more than about three PIs. Any more and you create the impression that you are shotgunning your résumé in an attempt to see what sticks.

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Thanks for the info! If you are not facilitating Traditions then what exactly does the job entail? Rosters, name tags, classroom set up? That kind of thing? Do you have typical hours? Because I wasn't sure how often they offered Traditions. Thanks!