Disney Face to Face!!

Greetings Kathryn (Kate)!

I hope you are excited for the upcoming interviews for the Walt Disney World Cultural Representative Program. The Disney Recruiters look forward to meeting you when they come to Canada! During this time you will be able to attend a presentation about all about the Magic known as Disney, and gain information about the Cultural Representative Program and the perks that come with it. After the presentation, you will have the opportunity to experience an interview like you never have before with the Walt Disney World recruiters!

For the upcoming interviews, we are offering the following dates and locations:


Friday, February 25th
Vancouver, British Columbia
845am-5pm

OR

Tuesday, March 1st
Toronto, Ontario
845am-5pm

OR

Thursday, March 3rd
Montreal, Quebec
845am-5pm



Transportation and any accommodation costs for the interview are at your own expense. The interviews will last all day, so we do ask that you choose a day that you will be able to attend the full interview time frames.

As space is limited for these interviews, please do contact me by Monday, January 24th, to confirm which interview location you would like to attend. We will grant confirmations for your selected city on a first come first/served basis.

Please do note that once an interview location is filled, we will ask you to choose an alternative location.

Once I have your preferred city choice I will email you a confirmation, so you can plan the start of this exciting adventure! We will then email you in the next 2-3 weeks, with the details of what you will need for the interviews as well as the name and contact details of the venue in your interview city.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

Have a Magical Day,


Kristen Thornton
Yummy Jobs

Yay!! Sooo exciting!! I already replied of course and have a spot at the Vancouver interviews! It's so nice knowing that I have an interview date and can plan around it! This was a big week because I also got accepted to University this week! So a lot of decision making will be made mid-March when I find out if I have another program or not! Stay tuned...this is getting exciting!

35 days 1 hour and 7 minutes until Disney Face to Face Interview!

Check this World Of Color Video out courtesy of asianbma at MiceChat! It's unreal!

2 more weeks...

Greetings!

We hope you had a great holiday season and are excited for the upcoming Walt Disney World interviews! Yummy Jobs is excited to be getting closer to the finalization of our upcoming interviews with Walt Disney World in Canada. More information regarding the locations and the exact dates should be confirmed in the next 2 weeks! We are anticipating interviews to be held between February 25- March 4, but will have the 100% confirmation of the cities and each date very shortly.

Please do keep an eye on your emails, and should your email address change please do contact me to let me know.

These interviews will be for arrival dates on the Cultural Representative Program that will start primarily between July and December 2010, lasting for one year from the time you arrive Orlando. If your situation has changed and you are no longer able to participate in this program, please do let us know so we can ensure that you are eligible to be considered for future programs!

We look forward to sending you more information as we have it!

Have a Great day!


Kristen Thornton
Yummy Jobs

Not exactly what I was expecting when I opened the email, but at least there is a time frame now! And at least it's at the beginning of March not the end! I'm so excited/nervous for the interviews and just really want them to take place already!! I want to know one way or the other haha. So we shall wait, 2 more weeks, and hopefully know the interview date sooner than later. At least I don't have to travel anywhere for the interview...that would drive me nuts because flights are just getting more and more expensive! Until next time....

This is why Running is Disney Related!

I have never been a huge runner...until now. Over the past few months I've somewhat fallen head of heels in love. They say you fall in love when you're least expecting it..and that seems to be what has happened. Some days it feels amazing and as if I could run forever, and some days, like today, that last mile is ridiculously hard! 2 days ago I had a fantastic run, where all the songs hit at the perfect times and once I finished my 5 mile run (just over 8km) I thought why not run one more, and then I ran the rest of the way home so it ended up being about 6.75 miles (10.86km) and I was tired afterwards! The last two days have been tougher and I've done 5 miles each day. All of this started when I heard one of the guys I worked with my first go around was running the 2010 Disney Marathon. I thought that was so cool, and as I had always secretly wanted to run a marathon at some point made the decision that I would run the 2012 Disney Marathon, and now it's less than a year away! I've always been sporty but not necessarily very fit. This year is the year though, as I don't really have a choice! I start a running clinic every Tuesday evening on the 25th for 12 weeks leading up to my first official run - The Vancouver Sun Run on April 17th! I just found a 8km or half marathon that happens on May 1st, however the original plan was to run the Scotiabank Half Marathon June 26th - so we shall see!
If I get to be in Florida by October I'm hoping to do the Epcot Food and Wine Half Marathon then! And then the grande finale - the 2012 Disney Marathon taking place the first weekend of January, the 6-8th!
I hope that whoever reads this, besides my family, doesn't mind that I'm blogging a bit about running in between hearing from Kristen at Yummy Jobs, and the Face to face interviews, but I need some distraction or I'll go stir crazy! My friend Ali from my first contract emailed Kristen and she still hasn't heard any news from Disney as to when the interviews will take place, which means we're all in the dark still too!
I'm sooo nervous and excited to hear about the face to face interviews and actually have them happen! It's so frustrating having to wait wait wait... maybe running will teach me some patience?
Until next time... if any of you are in Florida here is one of my best tips: Rent boats from one of the resorts on the Seven Seas Lagoons!!! You get a cast member discount (if you're a cast member of course) and even if you aren't they are soo much fun, especially on a sunny day! When I went we rented the 2 seater kinda of speed boats, and I'd never driven a boat before, but we each got one, and after initially being freaked out, it was INCREDIBLE! Zooming around the water, with the castle in the background, the beautiful wilderness lodge, the Floridian, it was great! If you ever get the chance...DO IT! :)

Happy Holidays!

Yes I waited a little long to wish everyone a Happy Holidays, however it's been a busy, crazy, emotional, fantastic season and well, I dropped the ball! BUT I'm hoping everyone has a beautiful New Years, however they wish to celebrate it, and a 2011 full of love, laughter, imagination and Adventures!!!

So the update on Disney....I've been added to an email chain of applicants all introducing themselves, which is exciting! I remember it last year and then meeting all the people...getting accepted, and how good of friends I am with so many of them now. It's quite bizarre actually. I couldn't believe how many names I knew on the list! There are SOOO MANY REPEATS! It's completely freaking me out! It's super stressful having so many people know you're reapplying...and if I don't get it, I'm going to be super sad..and everything will know! Also it feels like there is no way they could take everyone who is reapplying, so either me, or someone I know who was great there may not get accepted again. Gah! I don't even like thinking about it because it just stresses me out a lot. It keeps making me think of everything I didn't do, everything I missed out on seeing, and everything I did that I absolutely loved!

I did get everything sent in for university so that is exciting!!! I am waiting to hear in the New Year whether I'll be accepted or not, and if I do it's to start in MAY! Ahh! So crazy. I also have a Disney Cruise Line interview in February. Soo many things! I want school to accept me the most of course, and then the CRP so I can postpone school a year and save save save :)

So that's the update. No word from Kristen yet on the actual dates of the interviews...but trust me, you'll be the first to know!

GOT THE FACE TO FACE

Greetings Kathryn (Kate),

Thanks so much for taking the time in the recent telephone interviews for Disney’s Cultural Representative Program.

It was an absolute pleasure speaking with you and getting to learn a bit more about yourself and your reasons for wishing to work at Walt Disney World. I was impressed by the enthusiasm and personality that you had for this program and would be delighted to invite you to the final interviews for the Cultural Representative Program!

Currently we are still working with Walt Disney World to verify the exact locations and the time frames of when we will be holding the final interviews, however they will be held in early 2011. I will be contacting you in January with more information about the interview locations as well as cities we anticipate to interview in.

Along with the interview city information, I will also be inviting you to submit your email address to share with others interviewing, so please do keep an eye on your emails throughout this fall and if your contact information changes please do inform me.

Once again, congratulations on reaching this stage of the recruitment process and I very much look forward to contacting you with more information in January 2011!


Have a Magical Day,


Kristen Thornton
Yummy Jobs


YAY!!!! I'm soooooo excited!! I can have a lovely Christmas holiday now not stressing whether I got the interview or not! This waiting period is annoying, but so much less stressful because I know I'm onto the next step. One step closer to FLORIDA! Loveeeee it. Life is Good Today!