Hello its Alison I hope you're having a
super happy day so far I'm so excited to
share a little bit more insight of what
it's like to be a Disney professional
intern and just answer some of your
frequently asked questions I really do
get so many questions about my role
which I don't think you can is a very
unique experience and opportunities so
I'm really excited to answer some of the
questions you guys asked me on Instagram
so hopefully that will provide more
insight and help you in your journey of
pursuing and Disney professional
internship okay so one of the more
frequently asked questions that I get is
what is your favorite part about your
internship and there are so many
different aspects that I do like about
my job one I just love being able to
work for the Walt Disney Company on this
level and it's just so neat because I
started working out working out woo I
started working in the parks at Disney
World I was a character performer for
three and a half years and I was in high
school in college so being able to work
in an office now and just have my own
Disney comm email and just have my
different nametag it's just very neat
how I've been able to kind of take the
next step and build my career a little
more so that has been super amazing but
again I just love working for justing
it's such an incredible company so just
being able to work for them is an honor
and a privilege but I would say
specifically about what I do my favorite
part is being able to go out in the
parks and take video and pictures which
we call asset collection which basically
means an asset is basically anything
that you can use on social media to add
flair to your copy or anything like that
so that's something my most favorite
part of my job because that's just what
I
love to do I had some of my co-workers
ask me such funny questions like who is
your favorite communication specialist
in your vertical definitely you Briana
and then they all ask who's your
favorite Coco's memory okay and then
someone else asked are all your interns
are all the internships six months long
answer is no so typically they are six
months long which I feel like is very
smart man because like it basically
takes three months to even feel 100%
confident in what you're doing so it's
really nice to have a longer time to be
able to learn more but they do have some
internships that are three to four
months especially if they say summer
only so definitely look for those if you
only have a limited amount of time
period but finest expense long but there
is usually the opportunity to extend so
you could stay for over six months which
sometimes your leader will ask you if
you want to stay for a year so that's
good for some people for me I'm gonna be
exploring other things after my
internship ends um I'm hoping this was
another question to actually this is
probably the most popular question is
like what's the point of doing an
internship after you graduate Lee don't
you want to get a full-time job um so
for me I really wanted to do an
internship after I graduated because the
beautiful thing about internships is
that after your six months or 3 months
or a year is up there's really no
strings attached so if you do want to
pursue other things you don't have to
quit your job or anything like that it's
truly a learning experience and then
after you're finished with your
internship you can either try to stay or
explore other things so a lot of people
asked to like once your internship ends
do you think you can get full-time at
just
is it kind of guaranteed or is it more
likely um I would definitely say it's
more likely because you've already built
so many connections and you already have
experience with the company and in a
professional role which is amazing um so
I definitely think it gives you a huge
advantage especially with those
connections and networking opportunities
so I would definitely say so but
unfortunately it's not guaranteed and
with it doesn't mean it sometimes it can
be really really tricky to find a job in
your area of course there's always tons
of jobs especially in the park but if
you want to stay in a professional
position sometimes it's super super
difficult to to find it it really has to
be the right timing you have to connect
with the right people and hopefully it
can happen but definitely not guaranteed
even some people you know are just not
able to stay with Tinley so they have to
go somewhere else and then maybe come
back to Disney and when opportunity
arises but for me I'm actually after my
internship ends in January I'm actually
either going to try to do another
internship so I can have another
learning experience or I'm really going
to try to pursue part-time employment in
a professional setting so hope that
makes sense but I'm really hoping to
work part-time maybe in my department or
in a different department
I'm still doing social media
communications and I'm just really
hoping for a part-time role because I
mean obviously YouTube and my personal
social media takes up a whole lot of my
time and right now I'm working like 80
80 hours a week because I do this a
whole lot and then um I work at Disney
40 hours a week that was also another
question in what are your hours I
recorded hours a week full-time but all
I'm going to do till tonight later um so
yeah I would that's my dream is to get
part time so we'll know who knows if
that'll happen it's gonna be very
unlikely very very unlikely so I'm
definitely keeping my options open and
exploring other things but I'm just
really thankful this for this
and but it was important to me to if I'm
gonna continue in an intern I want to
explore other internship opportunities
so I can just continue to soak up
information and learn more and make
connections throughout the company okay
Oh someone asked are you able to do it
as part-time usually they don't have
internships that are part-time I think
occasionally they do but usually the
internships are full-time so you work 40
hours a week 9:00 to 5:00
I actually don't usually work 9:00 to
5:00 my managers super amazing and
flexible with me and she lets me work
like 7:00 to 4:00 sometimes or like 8:00
to 5:00 you know so I love that all
right that would be a nine-hour day but
actually I do that a lot sometimes all
most weeks I'll actually work nine-hour
days um Monday through Thursday and then
Friday I get to have basically a
half-day so it's really nice so I can do
something usually Brandon my fiance he
gets every other Friday off his job
amazing so usually we like to do fun
things on Friday so I love being able to
do that and I'm really thankful that my
manager is flexible in that way okay
another question is what kinds of
internships do they have and what
qualifications do you need so they truly
have so many different internships
there's there's practically an
internship for every major it's really
incredible so if you go to Disney
interns comm you can explore all the
available opportunities they have now
right now we're in September it's
actually a very great time to apply
because they're preparing to hire four
people coming in the spring so for me I
came in in June so I applied in January
February in February is when or that end
of February
I received my offer so so if you're
looking for an internship in the spring
you should have high during this time
and I'm very looking for an internship
that starts in the summer you should
apply after Christmas so one person
asked what is it like what is the
interview like so I actually created a
whole video about my intern internship
interview process so I'll link that in
the description below so that you can
get a better idea of that because I
explained like my whole process and all
my tips I have so hopefully that will be
helpful to you
someone asked what are the benefits of
being an intern and they truly are so
many amnon of them is just building
those connections
I'm just being able to soak up and learn
all this different information and at
least everything I've heard about using
internships and I can definitely vouch
for my experience you are treated like a
regular employee I mean you really are
given so much responsibility and so much
so much work and tasks and and just
things to get done so it definitely it's
not an internship where you go get
coffee and like file things in the
cabinet it's very hands-on and you
definitely again have a lot of
responsibility so it definitely feels
like an entry-level position
opposed to just an internship so super
valuable learning experience one person
asked can you go to Disney for free and
yes you sure can so everyone who's an
intern you get a mean we get paths which
you can use to get to yourself and
whenever you want there's a few block
block out dates which means there's a
few days I think here where you can't
you say because the capacity of the park
is gonna be really high and of course
they want their paying guests to have
first dibs of Park which I'm just
so we get a mean game pass and then
after you work 150 hours you get three
guest paths
so I'll start communicating that which
is really great because Brandon my
fiancee he doesn't have a pause doing
some of my friends don't have a pass so
it's really awesome that they get me her
admission so you can enjoy the stuff you
were gone someone asked is the start day
flexible or do you have a specific
birthday for me my recruiter told me
when I would be starting so I went and
all of the people and my department who
are interns and they all started the
same day so I think they definitely have
a rival periods but you should
definitely make it known to your
recruiter if you have a family vacation
or something like a graduation that you
have to go to so they can help work
around and better addressed your start
date another big question is is it a
paid internship and yes it is paid oh my
goodness could you imagine if I was
working 40 hours a week for nothing Oh
crazy I am a big believer in that if
someone is working for you they should
be paid I just yeah if you're working
hard like we work hard as interns at
Disney we work so hard and getting paid
like we have to make a living I mean all
of the other interns I work with have
graduated from college too so yeah we're
we have to make a living somewhere or
another so they definitely pay they
definitely pay fairly of course I'm not
making millions but it's sir someone
asked can you have a Disney internships
internship after doing the DCP so the
DCP is the Disney College Program and
yes definitely you can I work with a
couple people who have done the Disney
College Program and then got an
internship as well I personally didn't
do the Disney College Program I just
worked for Disney part-time when I was
in high school I just auditioned and was
because I lived in Orlando I I grew up
in Orlando so I've always just worked at
Disney because that's
my thing to do we work at Disney so um I
never did the college program so another
question I got was do you have to do the
Disney College Program in order to get
an internship or does it make you stand
out working does the Disney College
Program and I would say it really just
depends I think for most positions they
like if you have some Disney or like
experience working with the company but
it's definitely not required I think
actually most of the people I work with
haven't done it is in college program
and didn't work for getting before they
got their internship so it's definitely
not required at all but um it definitely
doesn't hurt because you're able to
share your experiences and you already
have that guest relations and consumer
mindset and just disney magic experience
already so I would think it would give
you an advantage but it's definitely not
required because I work with tons of
people who never worked for Disney
before someone asked what kind of majors
are they most likely to hire so again
they really truly have so such a variety
I mean they have internships with Animal
Kingdom where you can be conservation
intern or work with the animals and they
have all kinds of different internships
for engineering math and all different
kinds of majors they definitely do have
a lot of communications internships as
well with drama and so there's
definitely an abundance of those
internships but again there's really so
many different kinds and you have to
keep in mind we also encompass ESPN and
Marvel and Lucasfilm and Pixar so you
also have all those different entities
that you can apply to among the Disney
internships so we also have internships
for Lucas films like I said or you could
work in Bristol at ESPN so seriously
they basically have everything under the
Sun someone asks would you recommend to
use LinkedIn when applying or typing out
there
operation so I actually logged in
through the Disney Korea's website
through LinkedIn so I had it kind of
integrated through a LinkedIn but I also
attached my resume if that makes sense
so I had all the LinkedIn information
but I also attached my PDF of my resume
as well so I would recommend doing that
someone asked are there any Disney
internships outside of Florida and yes
the NCS like I said they have them all
over the United States but also the
world
there's internships in Shanghai as well
so how cool is that
usually for those in China you have to
speak Chinese which makes a whole lot of
sense so just keep that in mind okay
lots of people asked also can you be at
Disney and turn if you are from overseas
so if you're not from the United States
this is an amazing question I believe
you can but you have to keep in mind
that they do have to factor in if you'll
need a visa or not I actually work with
someone named Chris he's amazing he's
from China but he went to the University
of Ohio or Ohio State University I think
that's what it's called so he went to
college in America and then he was able
to do the internship so I guess I'm not
I'm sure I'm not exactly sure the
technicalities of that and what he had
to do to make that happen but he's from
China and then he went to Ohio State and
then was able to come to Florida to do
an internship so I would definitely say
it's possible but you don't have to keep
in mind like there is a lot to consider
also there's the Disney international
program where it's kind of like the
Disney College Program but it's for
people students who are international so
you should definitely check that out you
can just look up Disney international
program someone asked every day in my
life act your internship and
I will actually link that down below
because I made a day in the life of my
Disney professional internship a couple
weeks ago so you can watch that after
this someone asks you prefer working in
the parks are working as a Disney intern
more this is such a good question I
absolutely loved working in the parks
and thankfully and my role is look at
the opportunity to go in the parks every
once in a while so I'm always super
excited to do that but there there's
definitely things I miss about my old
job but I would say this job is
definitely more fulfilling
it's absolutely more stressful so that's
something to keep in mind it's
definitely harder and more challenging
but I definitely am fulfilled by the
challenge for sure and I feel like it
was a really good next step for me so I
wouldn't trade it to go back right now
at least but I'm what I did was super
fun as a character performance so I do
miss being able to hump kids all day and
dress up but I'm definitely happy to be
where I am okay someone asked what was
your major in college and their types of
classes etc to be able to get the job
great question so I was a
telecommunication major which is
basically digital media so I had lots of
helpful classes that kind of prepared me
for this I even took a class on social
media so that was pretty cool social
media management um so I definitely my
coursework definitely helped to prepare
me to get where I am that I would say
the biggest thing that helped me prepare
me was interning for different companies
last fall I interned for Universal
Orlando Resort on their social media
team and I would say that was probably
the biggest thing that helped me get
this role and I had three other social
media and communications relations
communications and social
related internships before I came to
Jersey so the experience is what really
really helps you stand apart I mean I
would say it's super rare to just have
your professional internship for your
very first internship your Disney
internship I mean they definitely want
you to have experience already and just
be ready to do the job and of course
they're going to train you a bunch but
you still need to have a working
knowledge and experience okay another
big question I got that I feel like it's
a really good question to end on I'm
gonna have this one be my last one I
still have quite a few more but
hopefully this will help you and you can
please feel free to ask any additional
questions down below this video is
already getting pretty lengthy so a lot
of people asked what are your career
goals for yourself after the internship
and this is a great question I'm still
figuring this out myself I just have a
lot of dreams on my heart for sure and I
love love love working for Disney um so
hopefully maybe I'll be able to continue
that but like I said I also have some
other dreams on my heart that working
full-time is kind of tricky to balance
everything um so we'll see I'm still
figuring it helps so stay tuned again my
internship ends in January so I will be
doing something else um starting then so
stay tuned I'm excited there's lots of
different opportunities that I'm
currently working on so we'll see but
I'm really thankful to be write him
again I just I know it's a really
special place to be and I worked really
hard to get here so at this time I'm
really just trying to soak it up and
make the most of it and be thankful
every day for it um but you really hope
these answers to your questions helped
you a lot and good luck if you're
applying like I said I'll link my tips
on the application process down below
and my day in my life so you can kind of
kind of
our idea of what I do but thank you all
again for your endless support and
encouragement and I can't wait to cheer
you on as you chase your dreams thanks
for watching guys
surely stars in the sky