The results of the F2F interviews were sent out today and I've been waitlisted :(
I know this means I have a place (at least, it did for all previous waitlisters), but having to wait until the end of August to find out when I'm going is so frustrating! Especially when there are other people who have been given dates. It just makes me wonder what I did that wasn't quite good enough.
But! I'm trying to be optimistic. It can't be a case of some people being better than others, and therefore being given dates first, because really, if us waitlisters weren't good enough, why would they have waitlisted us at all? Surely they'd have just said no? I'm choosing to believe that there weren't many places and that it was just luck of the draw who was given a place straight away and who was waitlisted.
I've already been waiting 6 months since the application date, what's another 10 weeks? I'll just have to find lots of fun things to do to take my mind off it all!
One girl's journey to work at Walt Disney World.
Wednesday 15 June 2011
Monday 6 June 2011
So, how did it go?
The F2F was on Friday and .. I think it went pretty well! At the moment at least, I'm fairly confident.
All of the people from our Facebook group (who had found each other through the WDWIP forums) met at Costa Coffee in the morning so we could head to Disney HQ together. We went there at about quarter to 9, but were told we were in the wrong entrance so had to go around the other side of the building. We were all pretty excited just to be in HQ!
We checked in and then stood around chatting for a while - someone said they were making notes on us, so I'm definitely glad for our group that meant we already knew people! It just made it a little bit easier!
Everyone arrived on time so we were taken into the theatre to watch a presentation. It was ridiculously cheesy but we all clearly loved it, haha. Jill and Jeff - the Disney representatives - talked around the videos in the presentation, and then asked us some quiz questions. I was determined to win one of the prizes, and I did! I knew the answer to all of the questions (they were pretty simple - name the 4 theme parks, name the cruise line ships, name a Disney owned channel, name a Disney owned TV show), and I won a prize (a screen wipe, which I have no intention of taking out of the packaging!) for naming all 3 Disney cruise line ships. And then I got right the answer of when the next ship was coming, and even its name, which definitely earned me some dork points!
Then they put up our interview times, and we all left the theatre. We went to sit in the Disney cafe to wait for Craig, who had his interview first. He came back and told us it was really informal, and that he was only asked a few questions. We kept pressing him for more, but he didn't have much to tell us!
We then decided to go to Wetherspoons, since most of us didn't have interviews for a couple of hours (mine was at 14.50). People were coming and going to their interviews from there, and the rest of us sat around chatting.
I headed back around 14.20, and they were already calling my name to sort out my paperwork when I got there! Luckily I wasn't actually late, so it was okay. Nick then took a few of us up to a kind of conference room where we waited for our interviewer. They were basically just taking anybody in the room in pairs - they weren't even taking people from the same time slot together!
I had Jeff as an interviewer, and was with a guy called Geraint. Jeff was really lovely and kept us completely at ease. I honestly didn't feel nervous at all, which was the complete opposite of how I was expecting to feel. Geraint was clearly really nervous - his hands were shaking a lot! - but he answered the questions really well, so it didn't matter.
The interview was as informal as everyone was saying. We were asked specific questions, but it was clear that it was the way we answered them just as much as what we answered that was important. We were asked why we wanted to work for Disney, to tell him about our hometown and 3 words or terms our friends would use to describe us. I feel like there was another question too, but I don't remember what it was!
At the end I told Jeff that they should give out the Disney International Program pen that he was using as a prize instead of the screen wipe, so he gave me his pen! I didn't expect that at all, but it was really cool so obviously I took it! And then he found something for Geraint too, which was super nice of him.
And then we went back to the foyer-y area. I thanked Chloe (one of the lovely Yummy Jobs people) and headed off.
We're supposed to hear BY June 15th - eek! Luckily I have some friends staying with me so that definitely helps to take my mind off things!
All of the people from our Facebook group (who had found each other through the WDWIP forums) met at Costa Coffee in the morning so we could head to Disney HQ together. We went there at about quarter to 9, but were told we were in the wrong entrance so had to go around the other side of the building. We were all pretty excited just to be in HQ!
We checked in and then stood around chatting for a while - someone said they were making notes on us, so I'm definitely glad for our group that meant we already knew people! It just made it a little bit easier!
Everyone arrived on time so we were taken into the theatre to watch a presentation. It was ridiculously cheesy but we all clearly loved it, haha. Jill and Jeff - the Disney representatives - talked around the videos in the presentation, and then asked us some quiz questions. I was determined to win one of the prizes, and I did! I knew the answer to all of the questions (they were pretty simple - name the 4 theme parks, name the cruise line ships, name a Disney owned channel, name a Disney owned TV show), and I won a prize (a screen wipe, which I have no intention of taking out of the packaging!) for naming all 3 Disney cruise line ships. And then I got right the answer of when the next ship was coming, and even its name, which definitely earned me some dork points!
Then they put up our interview times, and we all left the theatre. We went to sit in the Disney cafe to wait for Craig, who had his interview first. He came back and told us it was really informal, and that he was only asked a few questions. We kept pressing him for more, but he didn't have much to tell us!
We then decided to go to Wetherspoons, since most of us didn't have interviews for a couple of hours (mine was at 14.50). People were coming and going to their interviews from there, and the rest of us sat around chatting.
I headed back around 14.20, and they were already calling my name to sort out my paperwork when I got there! Luckily I wasn't actually late, so it was okay. Nick then took a few of us up to a kind of conference room where we waited for our interviewer. They were basically just taking anybody in the room in pairs - they weren't even taking people from the same time slot together!
I had Jeff as an interviewer, and was with a guy called Geraint. Jeff was really lovely and kept us completely at ease. I honestly didn't feel nervous at all, which was the complete opposite of how I was expecting to feel. Geraint was clearly really nervous - his hands were shaking a lot! - but he answered the questions really well, so it didn't matter.
The interview was as informal as everyone was saying. We were asked specific questions, but it was clear that it was the way we answered them just as much as what we answered that was important. We were asked why we wanted to work for Disney, to tell him about our hometown and 3 words or terms our friends would use to describe us. I feel like there was another question too, but I don't remember what it was!
At the end I told Jeff that they should give out the Disney International Program pen that he was using as a prize instead of the screen wipe, so he gave me his pen! I didn't expect that at all, but it was really cool so obviously I took it! And then he found something for Geraint too, which was super nice of him.
And then we went back to the foyer-y area. I thanked Chloe (one of the lovely Yummy Jobs people) and headed off.
We're supposed to hear BY June 15th - eek! Luckily I have some friends staying with me so that definitely helps to take my mind off things!
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