Disney Year Long Placement

After careful consideration and thought I have decided not to go to Disney for the year long academic program. There a few reasons I have decided this, for one I don't think I could ever top my summer program! I made so many great friends and memories and I don't want to compare it. I am on an event management course and unfortunately Disney doesn't offer a placement in events, which I ultimately want to go into. I have found some other placements opportunities which I feel may benefit my career more but I still LOVE Disney! 

Its my ultimate dream to work for Disneyland Paris one day, I'll have to revisit the French language! So hopefully in future I may be able to work on their events team! But until then I've been applying for some great events/ hospitality placements so hopefully I'll get them too!

Lisa x

Face To Face Interview

Had my face to face interview at Newcastle this year, hadn't been there before and didn't realise how far north it was! Mum was kind enough to book my a hotel the night before as otherwise I would of have to of left at 4.30am! Was very similar to last year, quick presentation from the lovely people from Florida about the whole program. Jill, the recruiter, asked me lots of questions through the presentation as I had been there before and also spoke to a lot of other applicants as they had loads of question too! After that they scheduled my interview for 12.50pm so had time to get a coffee and speak to more people who had applied. It seems there was a lot more applicants this year which made me more nervous!

The interview itself went well, Jill was lovely and asked very general questions of why I wanted t go back and what I expected to gain. Also she had my report card from this year and was nice to hear that my manager had approved me for rehire! Now here comes the waiting game again as we have 3 more weeks until I hear back! Have also been looking at other placements incase Disney doesn't rehire me! Found some great ones in Canada and also off the coast of South Carolina in the states; which is only a 5 hour drive to Orlando!

Lisa x

Damn You Disney California!

Disneyland California has gone and squashed my dreams of going and working there anytime soon, well on the College program anyway. I emailed them in hopes they accept international students, but alas they don't :(. I have however applied for the professional internship for event management and marketing; although I have a feeling I will get denied straight away as I'm not a US citizen. 

Still been looking for placements to apply for while getting back into University. Got the Disney meeting in a week and can't believe its nearly been a year since I last applied for the program, it has gone so fast!

Lisa x

Placements

I knew this was coming, I now have to decide what to do past May 2012 & its only October :(. I've made a really tough decision and decided not to go to Walt Disney World for the Summer College Program for a few reasons.

• I don't think I'll be able to top this years experience
• I won't be able to do attractions again (Disney's rule not to assign same job role if you reapply)
• I have a lot to do next summer (weddings, birthdays, shows etc)

I may regret this decision in years to come as its much easier getting a job through the University, but its one I've had to make.

BUT........ I am planning to apply for the year program! I study Event Management and with my course we have to do a year placement, I'm not sure where to do it but Disney is one of my options!

I'm hoping I can do a professional intern ship so I won't be doing 'basic' job roles like before, but we shall see! Obviously I'd love to work within the events department! Other than Disney, I'm going to apply to companies in Las Vegas, California and London! At this point I'm keeping my options wide open :). As my favourite saying is "If you don't ask, you don't get" I am going to email every company I want to work for and dazzle them :)

Lisa x