Disney College Program, Application and Interview Tips

Hey everyone! I thought this might be helpful if I posted the powerpoint information I got from the Disney at Uconn club. It has info about the application (including the web application) and the interview with tips on how to do well and actual questions people from the club were asked. Enjoy and Happy New Year!!

Application

• Live Presentation/ View E-Presenation (will be given a code to submit for application)

• Basic Information – short, should not take very long

• School attending/major

• Past work experience

• Hobbies

• Skills/language skills

Web-based Interview

• Immediately after submitting initial portion of application

• TIMED – set aside about an hour so you can finish this uninteruppted

• More of a personality test, i.e. “Do you think you work faster than the average person?”, “Compared to an average employee, do you work harder?”, “Are you late or miss work more often or less often than others?”

• You answer these questions based on a scale system (1-5)

• Good rule of thumb to choose either 2 or 4 if an awkward question

Phone Interview-Example Questions 

• WHY DO YOU WANT TO DO THE COLLEGE PROGRAM?-HUGELY important. Think about this, even write it out before the interview!

 Basic Information

• Ever worked for Disney in the past?

• When would I be applying for (Fall, Fall Advantage,Spring, Spring Advantage, etc.)?

• Receptive to the pay of appx. $7.25-8?

• Receptive to “Disney Look”?

• Have tattoos/piercings/etc. that are not able to be covered?

• Criminal record?

 Work-Focused Questions

• Past work experience:
  
  • Discuss your past jobs
  • Hardest part of your job, how it was resolved?
  • The most rewarding aspect of your job?
  • What is the pace you work at?
  • Do you work best by yourself or with others?
   

 Living With Others

• Would you be okay with living in an apartment with anywhere from 1 to seven roommates?

• What are problems you could foresee as being an issue between roommates?

• What would you do if no one was cleaning the apartment?

Roles

• Might really push the Quick Service role, SAY NO IF YOU DON'T WANT IT (and have a reason why, example: "I've worked in Quick Service in the past and want to try something new."

• Rate which roles you want the most

• Be sure you have reasons for why you WANT the roles you picked

• Be sure you can back this up by saying why Disney should want YOU to have this as a role (TIP:Go over the role sheet to see the responsibilities associated with each of the roles you are applying for: be sure to discuss that you are capable of fulfilling these responsibilities)

Situational Questions

• What would you do if a child was too short to go on a ride?

• What would you say to a guest if they were having trouble finding something in your store?

• What would you say to an unhappy guest if there were long lines on a popular ride?

• If, in the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique the appointments were running very late, what is something you could say to the waiting guests?

Wrapping up the interview....

• When is your favorite time of year to visit Disney?

• Would you mind working outside?

• What is your favorite thing about Disney?

• What is your favorite attraction at Disney?

• Do you have any questions for the interviewer? ALWAYS ASK SOMETHING (it shows interest) (examples: Possibility to extend? How long for a decision? ect)

 Total Time: 21-22 minutes

10 random facts

I was tagged by Kryssy so here's 10 randoms things you might not know about me!

1. I've been playing the violin for 12 years and am putting on my first recital (for school) at the end of March before I graduate from college.
2. I've never had a boyfriend. My first date (and only date so far) was to my senior prom with a guy I've known since 3rd grade. I've been asked out by people since, just not by anyone who interests me. I secretly hope my first real boyfriend will be my prince charming....I've waited long enough! :)
3. I have a shopping addiction....take me into a store and I will almost always find something to buy.
4. I'm really bad at making decisions, if you're ever with me when I have to decide between 2 things, brace yourself, I'll go back and forth for at least 5-10 minutes.
5. I was born a preemie at 1 pound, 11 oz. Eventually I went down to 1 pound 2 oz because of the lose of water weight. I was in the hospital for 3 months and my parents visited me every single day.
6. I have the entire series of I Love Lucy on DVD. Ever since I was little I've loved Lucille Ball and can't get enough of her. I also collect her other shows and specials on DVD as well as I Love Lucy barbie dolls. I've come to the conclusion that when I move into my own house I'm going to need to have a separate room just for my Lucy stuff lol.
7. I was extremely shy in school and didn't talk to anyone until 5th grade. Now that I look back on it I realize how stupid and weird it was but at the time I was just too afraid to talk to anyone. I think it's genetic because now my 10 year old sister is the exact same way and doesn't talk to anyone at school.
8. I love country music and I'm a member of the official Carrie Underwood fan club. It sounds dorky but I get amazing seats at her concerts. The best I've gotten so far is 6th row, dead center. Oh and I got free tickets to see her at the Hard Rock Cafe in NYC for a Thanksgiving Day Parade taping she did for CBS. 
9. I've been to Disney World 18 times. The last time I went was in May with 2 friends for my birthday. Lets just say it didn't go well and I'm never going on vacation with friends again...or at least ones I haven't spent a ton of time with. You don't know people until you've lived with them that's for sure!
10. I'm half Puerto Rican and half Italian. Holidays are awesome cause my grandma on my moms side brings the Spanish food and my grandma on my dads brings the Italian food, yummm.

I'm going to be tagging Amanda Quintal and Diana Kelly. Hopefully they haven't been tagged yet?!?

Disney at Uconn-Semester in Review

Members of Disney at Uconn

Now that the Fall semester is over, I finally have time to update my blog. I'm gonna start by saying there's only 23 more days until I can apply for the College Program and I'm sooo excited!! :) Pretty soon I'll have more to talk about on my blog because the application process will finally start! Today I went through the binder I put together with my papers from the Disney at Uconn club I joined which went fabulously by the way!! I was kind of nervous about joining a club since the only activity I've done in college is orchestra (which is required of me as a music major) but I'm so glad I did join!

The first meeting was sharing Disney stories and they told us all about the college program and what roles there were. Then we had another meeting about the application process which was super helpful. The girls who run the club are going to Disney in January for Spring 2011 and they put together a really helpful powerpoint going over the questions they were asked during the phone interview (which they wrote down so they would remember them) and how we should prepare for them. I'll post the information from that in a separate post because I'm sure it might help anyone reading this as well.

There were a few meetings I didn't go to because they were doing things like voting for elections (which I would have loved to participate in but I'm a senior and didn't see the point in trying for a position when I wouldn't even be there for a year) or talking about how to get college credits through Uconn which didn't apply to me either since I'm graduating. What I did go to were the bonding nights we had. I missed one of them because I had to study for exams but I attended 2 of the other bonding nights as well as the Disney themed fundraiser we did!

The bonding nights were usually themed. The first one I went to was "Disney at Uconn's Not So Scary Halloween Party". We ended up coming in costumes (I was a cat, some people went with nondisney costumes and a lot went with disney costumes. tinkerbell, indiana jones, and minnie mouse were all there!), watching Halloweentown, tye dying tshirts (my first time!), and eating candy! :) It was so much fun and made me happy knowing I had found people at my school who also love Disney. The other bonding night I went to was "Disney at Uconn's Very Merry Christmas Party". At this meeting, we listened to Disney Christmas Music, made gingerbread men, and picked presents out of a grab bag. I got Disney fruit snacks lol.

The other event I also participated in was the "Disney at Uconn's Bibbidi Bobbidi Nail Boutique". I volunteered and showed up to paint nails. It was $5 for people to get their nails painted. I had a lot of fun and got to talk to the other group members more which was nice.

Anyways, next semester should be even better since a bunch of us will be applying for next Fall! We can (hopefully) celebrate our acceptances together! :)