The Official Spring 2010 PI Thread

[secondstarlight]

Im so glad I stumbled upon this board! Ive been looking for somewhere to discuss or get more info about PI's everywhere, there are tons of blogs and such about the cp but not much about PIs. Anyway I got accepted Yesterday as a Conservation Education Presenter in Animal Kingdom!!!! Im so excited, has anyone else been accepted by animal programs or any other department?Id love to get to know everyone and discuss all of this exciting stuff! Good Luck to everyone still waiting to hear back!

One of the internships I applied for was also as a Conservation Education Intern...but I've yet to hear anything back. (It HAS, however, only been a few days since the deadline closed). You are so lucky to hear back so soon!!Congrats!! Do you mind if I ask you how you heard back from them? (Was it by phone, e-mail, or letter?) Hopefully more good news will follow for the rest of us!

 

[Oh_Our_Hearts]

I was contacted by email and asked when would be the best time for the recruiting manager to call me, she asked me a few questions (like whether I would be available the whole time and would adhere to the disney look ect.) and then offered me the position. Hopefully this means they will start contacting you and everyone else soon!

 

[jeff318]

I got the rejection email for the retail MI today. I'm not overly devastated, since I thought that the interview really didn't convey my true dedication and fit for the role. I'm still waiting to hear back from the CP alumni internships, but I've accepted the CP anyway.

 

[secondstarlight]

I was contacted by email and asked when would be the best time for the recruiting manager to call me, she asked me a few questions (like whether I would be available the whole time and would adhere to the disney look ect.) and then offered me the position. Hopefully this means they will start contacting you and everyone else soon!

This is great news! Thanks for the information. As for your housing question...I've been reading many of the posts on this forum and it seems like the Disney housing is a great option. It seems relatively inexpensive compared to offsite housing and Disney has transportation right from the housing complexes. If I got accepted I would definitely choose Disney housing! It's great to hear that some people already are getting offers from Animal Programs...such an exciting time!

 

[secondstarlight]

Thanks! I interviewed about two weeks ago. Whats your first choice? Good Luck with it! Also,who else is applying for housing? and does anyone know if PI's all live in Northbridge or Patterson....Ive found tons of video tours of Vista Way and a few for Patterson but nothing about Northbridge. I wish I could just go down there now nd check everything out!

Ahh...I see that I didn't exactly answer your question...from what I've read, if PIs apply for Disney housing they are assigned to a building in Patterson Court...hopefully some other people on this forum can tell me if I'm right or wrong!

 

[americangeiko]

Ahh...I see that I didn't exactly answer your question...from what I've read, if PIs apply for Disney housing they are assigned to a building in Patterson Court...hopefully some other people on this forum can tell me if I'm right or wrong!

It's Patterson. They used to house PIs in Northbridge until Fall last year when the economic crunch set in. There's one whole building at Patterson for MIs, everything else is regular CPs.

 

[vamoose27]

It's Patterson. They used to house PIs in Northbridge until Fall last year when the economic crunch set in. There's one whole building at Patterson for MIs, everything else is regular CPs.

You mean PIs. MIs are absolutely not allowed to stay in company housing.

 

[spectroaddy]

I have heard of people getting a MI retail and congrats!!! I'm just wondering, why I have not received a rejection, I was told I would not go to the next round of interview, but no rejections.Also, does anyone know when we are suppose to hear back from CP alumni positions??? I have heard many rumors saying that will we will know by end of october, early november. Even some say last of november, does anyone know anything???

 

[bigtex]

so has anyone had to fill out a biographical summary too? Is it ok if you don't live in the Disney Housing, is there ok parking for employees? Can you bike to work?

 

[Ayame]

I'm just curious, those who thought they did "bad" on the interview, what about it did you think was bad? I'm so nervous...

Dawn

 

[Oh_Our_Hearts]

It's Patterson. They used to house PIs in Northbridge until Fall last year when the economic crunch set in. There's one whole building at Patterson for MIs, everything else is regular CPs.

Nice! especially since Ive heard a lot of things about NOrthbridge being a little bit sketchy and theres a lot more info about Patterson out there. It looks like the bedrooms are pretty tiny but everything else seems really nice!

and no, you dont have to live in company housing... and im assuming they wouldn't have any problem with people biking to work

 

[dkmulder]

so has anyone had to fill out a biographical summary too? Is it ok if you don't live in the Disney Housing, is there ok parking for employees? Can you bike to work?

You do not have to live in Disney housing, in fact, a lot choose not to. Someone earlier said there is transportation for those living in Disney housing; it is only for CP's, PI's can not use the transportation last I knew. You can bike to work, but I hope you are in really good shape as all things Disney are very spread apart and far away - unless you work at Downtown Disney, that may not be so bad to bike to. And even if you do choose to live in Disney housing, in years past it was a lottery system, so you may still not get it, although I have never really heard of this being a problem. The parking for employees varies greatly by location. For example, if you work at MK, you will park at West Clock and need to take the bus to MK. If you work at one of the resorts, you can park right at the resort - it all depends where you work but there is parking everywhere as far as I know.

What postition did you apply for to have to fill out a biographical summary? I have never heard of this and am curious.

 

[vamoose27]

The parking for employees varies greatly by location. For example, if you work at MK, you will park at West Clock and need to take the bus to MK.

Even if you worked at MK, you probably wouldn't park at West Clock unless you just wanted to. Management and Professional cast have their own parking lot -- the Pluto Lot. It's sort of close to Space Mountain, and then you would take a bus over to backstage at Main Street. You have to have a special pass to get on the bus.

 

[glendalais]

You do not have to live in Disney housing, in fact, a lot choose not to. Someone earlier said there is transportation for those living in Disney housing; it is only for CP's, PI's can not use the transportation last I knew. You can bike to work, but I hope you are in really good shape as all things Disney are very spread apart and far away - unless you work at Downtown Disney, that may not be so bad to bike to. And even if you do choose to live in Disney housing, in years past it was a lottery system, so you may still not get it, although I have never really heard of this being a problem. The parking for employees varies greatly by location. For example, if you work at MK, you will park at West Clock and need to take the bus to MK. If you work at one of the resorts, you can park right at the resort - it all depends where you work but there is parking everywhere as far as I know.

What postition did you apply for to have to fill out a biographical summary? I have never heard of this and am curious.

Actually, it's almost mandatory to have a car if you're not in C&IP Housing. The roads on Disney Property, particularly thoroughfares like World Dr. and BVD, aren't for the most part made for biking. You are taking a real safety risk biking on them, not to mention the great distance between things.

Lynx does provide bus service to the Walt Disney World Resort, but like most of Lynx's other services throughout Central Florida, it isn't the most convenient way of getting places. We had one new hire in my area (new to Florida, obviously) who tried to use Public Transport to get to Disney from Altamonte Springs/Seminole County - he obviously has left to seek other employment nearer to home.

Cast Parking is available at all Disney worksites property-wide. The nice thing about being a PI/Salaried/O&T Cast Member is that you get special parking in some areas. Some areas let you drive in and park backstage (DHS is a big one on this), and some areas (MK) have seperate parking areas for O&T/Salaried Cast.

 

[secondstarlight]

You do not have to live in Disney housing, in fact, a lot choose not to. Someone earlier said there is transportation for those living in Disney housing; it is only for CP's, PI's can not use the transportation last I knew. You can bike to work, but I hope you are in really good shape as all things Disney are very spread apart and far away - unless you work at Downtown Disney, that may not be so bad to bike to. And even if you do choose to live in Disney housing, in years past it was a lottery system, so you may still not get it, although I have never really heard of this being a problem. The parking for employees varies greatly by location. For example, if you work at MK, you will park at West Clock and need to take the bus to MK. If you work at one of the resorts, you can park right at the resort - it all depends where you work but there is parking everywhere as far as I know.

What postition did you apply for to have to fill out a biographical summary? I have never heard of this and am curious.

So PIs can not even use the transportation to visit the parks when they are not working? I know that they need transportation to get to work, but do you always have to drive to the theme parks yourself?

 

[disneygirl716]

To be honest... having some kind of vehicle during the college program made things so much easier. Once you get to the parks you can always use their transportation to park hop. Even if you don't have a car, you will easily make freinds with people that do!! Don't worry about that!!!

 

[secondstarlight]

That's true...I've got a car so it would be no problem. Transportation between the parks IS very easy. When I go to WDW we park our car at EPCOT and use buses or the monorail to get everywhere else. It would just be nice to save a little gas sometimes.

 

[Ayame]

I just finished up my second interview. He said that it would be the final interview, that there isn't a face to face interview. I think it went well, I wish I had answered the technical questions better but I'm sure everyone wishes they could have the questions in advance...

Dawn

 

[dkmulder]

So I've got a question about the workbench. Has anybody's ever changed for anything? Besides the links no longer working because the deadlines have passed, nothing ever changes on mine. Even when I have interviews scheduled, I thought those at least would show up under the interview section, but nothing. I'm beginning to think intern hopefulls don't really go through the workbench process that maybe other hopefull cast members do. I have always noticed people placing a lot of emphasis on what happens on their workbench, but I've never actually heard anything happen to anybody's. Anybody out there that has been offered an internship ever see any change?

 

[Ayame]

So I've got a question about the workbench. Has anybody's ever changed for anything? Besides the links no longer working because the deadlines have passed, nothing ever changes on mine. Even when I have interviews scheduled, I thought those at least would show up under the interview section, but nothing. I'm beginning to think intern hopefulls don't really go through the workbench process that maybe other hopefull cast members do. I have always noticed people placing a lot of emphasis on what happens on their workbench, but I've never actually heard anything happen to anybody's. Anybody out there that has been offered an internship ever see any change?

I haven't noticed mine change either. I was expecting at least the interview dates and times to be updated but so far none of the interviews have appeared on my workbench.

Dawn