Professional Internship - Fall 2011

[KattyKiss]

I didn't see a thread for the Fall, so I thought I'd start one. I just had my interview yesterday so of course, it's all I can think about!

I just thought I'd see where everyone else is in this crazy process! What did everyone apply for?

 

[TravisSch]

I applied for 5 different Professional Internships, all in Information Technology. I just applied yesterday (2-10-11; my birthday by the way). So, I haven't gotten anything yet about doing a screening interview, but I think I will get that soon.

I hope there is some good luck by applying on my birthday. hehe

 

[KattyKiss]

Oh that's so exciting! And Happy Belated Birthday! I applied for the Entertainment Management one, Costuming Workroom, and Magic Kingdom Project Support Internship. The Management is definitely my top choice, but that's just because I'm a Theatre major and totally in love with Entertainment!

 

[boundfordinsey]

i applied to 4 animal sciences PI's. I know for 2 of them atleast there are no screening interviews and most likely not even any. The other 2 i have no clue about but i had heard that the animal programs wait until the deadline has passed to do an interview

 

[Jefpier]

Management & Guest Relations.

 

[Hyped89]

I applied for the finance/accounting PI, and two management PI positions. I had my screening phone interview for finance on tuesday and got a rejection email for the project analyst position. Can a former PI please tell us hows the office environment at disney? Where are the offices located? Ive been able to find a ton of Info on the CP but very few on the PI program.

 

[Disneymagic01]

I applied for the finance/accounting PI, and two management PI positions. I had my screening phone interview for finance on tuesday and got a rejection email for the project analyst position. Can a former PI please tell us hows the office environment at disney? Where are the offices located? Ive been able to find a ton of Info on the CP but very few on the PI program.

What kind of questions did they ask you in your interview? If you don't mind me asking.

Thanks!

 

[Hyped89]

What kind of questions did they ask you in your interview? If you don't mind me asking.

Thanks!

They asked pretty standard questions. First they asked if I could provide my own transportation, whether I had worked for Disney before, and other yes/no questions. She then asked me which positions I liked for the internship, I answered Business Operations and Business Finance (these are positions within the finance/accounting PI). She then started to ask me the usual interview questions: qualities of a leader, if you had something important to do and there are a lot of distractions what would you do. She then asked me about my prior work experience (what i liked, what i didn't like...) Then I had to tell them about the different computer programs that I can use, and the relevant finance coursework that I've taken in school. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

 

[ibaw]

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[ibaw]

Can a former PI please tell us hows the office environment at disney? Where are the offices located? Ive been able to find a ton of Info on the CP but very few on the PI program.

It all depends where you are selected to work. With finance there are many different positions throughout property. Some positions may work in offices located within a theme park, others may work in the Celebration offices or at Team Disney. The reason there is not much informaiton about the PI programs is that they are all unique to the office or department that you work in.

 

[vikings5]

So I just applied for the alumni internships for fall. After I applied it said my next step is to call during the week and schedule an interview. But in an email they just sent, it said they will be contacting those who they are interested in.....so does anybody by any chance know if I am I supposed to call for one or wait?

 

[YesIStillLoveDisney]

You should call. I went through the same thing and when I called I set up an interview for the next day. If you apply for non-alumni ones as well, they may interview you for those too. I had applied for a management PI and they asked me those questions too

 

[vikings5]

awesome thanks!

 

[KattyKiss]

You should call. I went through the same thing and when I called I set up an interview for the next day. If you apply for non-alumni ones as well, they may interview you for those too. I had applied for a management PI and they asked me those questions too

Did you get an email asking to interview for the Management Internship, or was it just sort of automatically lumped into the original interview?

 

[Garovia]

I just applied for 4 HR internships! Are there just some PI's that do secondary screenings or do all of them do it? It seems that all the Management ones do, but I haven't heard anything yet on HR.

 

[YesIStillLoveDisney]

I applied for 4 alumni and 2 Management PI's last weekend. I got an email for one of the management PI's withing 12 hours telling me that I was no longer being considered. I called Monday morning to set up my alumni interview and they didn't say anything about it also being for the remaining management PI but when they called they went over the list of PI's and listed the 4 alumni and 1 management then asked me to rank my top 4. Those were the ones I was interviewed on.

I was never told to set up an interview for the management so I was taken a bit by surprise. I am not sure how it would work if you didn't apply for alumni PI's though and just did management since it never told me to call for that.

 

[vikings5]

Interview Wednesday 10 am. Applied for guest correspondence and ticket fulfillment specialist...has anyone every interviewed for these?

 

[Tommorowland1989]

I applied for PI management in theme park operations, last semester for the spring 2011. I made it to the phone interview and got a rejection email in November. When i called HR they told me i made it pretty far but the reason i wasn't offered a position was because i had no retail experience and i never did the college program.Since then i have worked in Bloomingdales and i applied for the college program. I applied for the fall 2011 same internship and had my phone interview last week. Once again they said i was a strong candidate for this position. Because im applying a second time and i have new work experience on my resume, will that give me a "leg up" for this position? Or will my out come be the same as last time and should i apply for more then one internship?

 

[ktrex]

Hi! I just applied for 2 animal programs PIs the other day (Animal Behavior and DAK conservation presenter). I'm waiting until I get SCUBA certified to apply for a few more (I'll be probably the last one applying, haha). Hopefully I hear back from them soon!

 

[boundfordinsey]

i applied to 4 Animal PI's like two weeks ago and just got an email today