The Official Spring/Spring Advantage 2010 Thread!

[Pure_Imagination]

^ Good luck!!!!!

I'm hoping the wait will go by really fast once school gets here. I keep telling myself I managed to wait all summer for the interview, I can manage a few weeks for the response. I'm just so nervous!!!!!

 

[DOasDREAMERSdo]

I just finished! It was only about 14 minutes long! :/Don't know what that means.
But she said that she'd be forwarding the document from my interview to my recruiter and they would be making a decision, and I would receive that decision in about 2-3 weeks in the mail. I'm so nervous! It was such a blur!
She didn't ask as many questions as I had thought she would, but there was only one I think that I hadn't really been able to prepare for!
So...it's out of my hands! I don't know what's worse...before or after the interview!!
*crosses fingers*

 

[Lauren in wonderland]

my interview lasted 15 mins, almost exactly. she told me i'd be hearing a response in about 4 weeks. maybe because we all applied so early the wait period is less? i dont know but im super nervous. i had a coughing fit i the middle of my interview. of course. she asked me about my work experiece a lot. im just really nervous, i hope i made it.

 

[RyeCrimsonMoon]

Ahh! I'm done! A lot of weight has been lifted now. It was about 10 minutes, but she did ask me about my work experience (I use to work in a theme park, so I could compare a lot with Disney). I may have messed up in one part, but then I corrected myself and hopefully didn't sound like a crazy person.

I only got questions about costuming, so I hope that's what I get! It was defiantly my first choice!

 

[GhillieGirlBelle1987]

The waiting is killing me! This is something I have dreamed about my whole life. I have an interview at 10:15 thursday. I just don't want to disney word vomit on the telephone, my boyfriend kicked me out his apt last night because i was talking about the cp all night long (whats funny is he loves disney about as much as me).

ryecrimsonmoon, saw your countdown turning 21 and going to dragon con, fun. I am incredibly jealous

 

[Pure_Imagination]

You know, I think sometimes the short time might just be because some people talk faster than others, and some people take a little longer to go into detail on their answers. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. Also, if your interviewer saw that you had a lot of experience in one area they might have just skipped over the questions for it.

I wonder if they're asking more experience-based questions and seem to really be trying to place people where they're experienced is due to cost issues. Maybe they're wanting to spend less money and time on training. They could be looking for people who are already familiar with certain areas so they don't have to do as much training.

At the same time they're probably really paying attention to your personality and what kind of work environment you like best and work best in.

 

[DisneyFan2000]

God I hope i get accepted... i really need to get out of my home. ughh 4 other siblings.. not exactly the Brady bunch around here -_- and they all accuse me of being the favorite.....and to top it off I'm stuck at community college for now so i cant even live in a dorm.......far....far....away

 

[NotSoLittleAviator]

So all I can think about is the phone interview that I have tomorrow morning. What im really not looking forward to is the wait for the response. I think ill go crazy before i get my letter. Also, If I do get accepted what role will i get? I hope that ill enjoy it. I hope that it is early enough that i will get my choice. First im hoping for attractions which is no surprise. my fallbacks are transportation and main entrance operations. Piloting a monorail would truly be a dream come true! and those parking trams can be a lot of fun too. I am so excited for the possibilities!

 

[rachaelfig]

What I thought was kind of interesting was that my interviewer asked which positions I was most qualified in, not my top three choices. I had to say that I had the most experience in Merchandise, because I do, but that I really wanted to do Attractions and Merch would only be my second choice. (My third choice was any of my other choices; I don't really care. I just want to go.) I got 1 question on Attractions and 2 on Merch. This makes me think that if I get in, it'll probably be for Merch.

But what I'm wondering is, can they really use experience as a way to make the majorities of the placements? Because Attractions must take an extremely large percentage of the incoming CPs and I know there can't be that many people who have experience running rides. Or at least not as many people who have experience in retail or the food industry (although I know these areas need a large number of CPs as well.)

I guess we'll have to wait till the letters start arriving to find out!

 

[disaddiction828]

well if they go with where you have experience at that would be sweet with me. Due to the fact I have worked at a theme park for attractions and know the procedures and all... Even though its not that hard just common sense is needed

 

[CursedCarolers]

I don't like the idea of all this experience based question stuff. My jobs have been pencil pushing desk jobs. I want to go to Disney to get away from that and get some real experience out with people.

Not that there's any (well, not many) jobs that don't require working with people...just I don't want to seem under-qualified. I'm sure I can do this, I just don't want to be nixed before I get the chance.

 

[Lauren in wonderland]

I don't like the idea of all this experience based question stuff. My jobs have been pencil pushing desk jobs. I want to go to Disney to get away from that and get some real experience out with people.

Not that there's any (well, not many) jobs that don't require working with people...just I don't want to seem under-qualified. I'm sure I can do this, I just don't want to be nixed before I get the chance.

I think you'll do fine. They see your past work experience so if they see you havent a lot of "people time" i'm sure they ask you differnt questions. Probably more like "why do you want this job" and example type things as well.

 

[hyperflame]

What I thought was kind of interesting was that my interviewer asked which positions I was most qualified in, not my top three choices. I had to say that I had the most experience in Merchandise, because I do, but that I really wanted to do Attractions and Merch would only be my second choice. (My third choice was any of my other choices; I don't really care. I just want to go.) I got 1 question on Attractions and 2 on Merch. This makes me think that if I get in, it'll probably be for Merch.

But what I'm wondering is, can they really use experience as a way to make the majorities of the placements? Because Attractions must take an extremely large percentage of the incoming CPs and I know there can't be that many people who have experience running rides. Or at least not as many people who have experience in retail or the food industry (although I know these areas need a large number of CPs as well.)

I guess we'll have to wait till the letters start arriving to find out!

I'm pretty much in the same position you are. I have loads of Merchandise experience, but for Disney, I wanted something new, so I didn't check off the Merchandise role.

But I would bet that Disney defines "experience" very liberally; i.e. if you have experience interacting with people (whatever that experience may be), then you're safe for many Disney roles that are "people-facing".

And let me be brutally honest: We're in one of the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression, Disney can afford to demand experience and still get many qualified applicants.

Here's a question for the people who already had their phone interviews, and are reporting interview times of 10-15 minutes: Do you have plenty of experience in jobs that interact with people?

 

[DOasDREAMERSdo]

Hyperflame,
I had one of the short interviews and I do have a lot of guest experience. I've worked for 2 and a half years at a popular store in a tourist-destination mall.

 

[Pure_Imagination]

For the short interviews, they could have just skipped over some of the questions because they knew you had experience. Plus, like I said before, it could just depend on how fast you talk vs. other people, how long it took you to answer, etc.

 

[NotSoLittleAviator]

What's up everybody?

I had my interview this morning and it went very well! I am very excited to hear back. My interview was only 11 minutes but I think that it is because I answered my questions very throughly so there was no need for second questions on some things. My first choice as you all know was attractions so she asked me the Space Mountian question and then we got to talking about my second choice Transportation. She asked me a few questions about the Monorail so now im really hoping that I get offered the position as a monorail pilot. That would be sweet! Anyways they told me i would here in 2-3 weeks which i believe is a great thing. They most likely send out acceptance letters out first and the 4-6 week people may be the maybes that get in and sadly the rejections. anyways Ill let you all know when i get my letter!!!

 

[Pure_Imagination]

What's up everybody?

I had my interview this morning and it went very well! I am very excited to hear back. My interview was only 11 minutes but I think that it is because I answered my questions very throughly so there was no need for second questions on some things. My first choice as you all know was attractions so she asked me the Space Mountian question and then we got to talking about my second choice Transportation. She asked me a few questions about the Monorail so now im really hoping that I get offered the position as a monorail pilot. That would be sweet! Anyways they told me i would here in 2-3 weeks which i believe is a great thing. They most likely send out acceptance letters out first and the 4-6 week people may be the maybes that get in and sadly the rejections. anyways Ill let you all know when i get my letter!!!

I wouldn't scare people with that kind of guessing! It could go either way- or there could be no rhyme or reason to it. Those of us who were told 2-3 weeks might still be waiting up to 6 weeks. Maybe it depends on what recruiter you got or roles you picked.

 

[DOasDREAMERSdo]

Umm...has it been 2-3 weeks yet? :]

 

[disaddiction828]

So I can not narrow down to a third and final place to work... I want to do attraction, so I have that as the number one (plus I have a tun of experience) and then I have concierge as my second one but then I have no idea for a third one... Any ideas???

My interview is tomorrow at 9:45 am, and I guess I am just very nervous and scared for tomorrow morning!

 

[Pure_Imagination]

Put either ones you are most qualified for or ones that need a lot of people/aren't too selective. They seem to be looking a lot more at how experienced you are at certain roles this year.