My first post!
I too just graduated from college this past December. I had the fortune of being able to land a professional internship at Disney durring school. I took a year off to work full time in an office building in Celebration, FL. It was great fun, the time of my life.
Now I have the itch to return to Disney. (Who doesn't?) Unfortunately the area that could use my professional tallents are not currently hiring.
![Frown :( :(](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png)
The good news is that things are looking to turn around probably by the fall in at least one of these departments and I may be able to land a job.
Till then I am going to take a leap and move to Orlando anyway. While a behind the scenes CM I had tha fortune of CrossUing both in MK and on a Monorail station. So now my plan is to go get an hourly job in attractions or transportation to immerse myself and get some good contacts.
One would hope my previous employment with the comapny would help me get in one step up, but I am not holding my breath. I fugre this will just be a summer job.
Now... your answer:
It seems hourly jobs are VERY easy to get. The don't pay well but the turn over seems high enough that they are always hiring.
Professional jobs are another story. Findign a way to get in as an intern is best. Disney takes many college students each semester. Unfortuntely they don't take grads in this program. The next best thing is to know someone in the comapny. I was fortunate enough to meet a few VPs and Directors while intering and was able to network into many departments.
Without contacts the only thin you can do is apply constant pressure. Send your resumee often and move to the area. Find out the names of some people and start cold calling. It is hard but I was able to find some obscure references to a secratary within the company that helped me break though the secrecy around Disney. The best thing is to be frendily yet presistant.
I think disney has uses for psycoholgists in both attraction and resort design as well as operations and quality assurance programs. You just have to weasle in.
Whoa, long post. Sorry, I'm excited about my upcomming move to Orlando and the entertainment industry in general.
Damon