WDW Mom's Panel Accepting Applications Sept 12-16

[Melanie]

Super congrats to your wife!!!

[EpcotChic23]

Congrats to your wife and your whole family for this great achivment!!!!

[brdavis]

Thank you all (from my wife) for the wonderful congratulations! She's very excited, and falling rapidly into the amazing busyness of preparing for training (ulp! just weeks away!), but it's wonderful to have communities like this to share with... and to have folks share with us!

To every one who tried, and didn't make it... it doesn't matter if you didn't make the first cut, or made it right up to the very last... please try again next year! There are so many people here with so much to offer that I suspect Disney's biggest problem is trying to select people from the FLOOD of viable applicants... and the wonderful thing is even if Disney can't accommodate everyone, the interaction on boards like this does the same thing for MANY of us (it wouldn't surprising me if watching fan communities like this is what gives corporations like Disney or LEGO, which I've participated in similar things, the idea).

The people here may not be on the Official Disney Mom's Panel (yet!)... but you are all Disney experts, and wonderful ambassadors for the Magic

I'd love to tell you all just "how she did it", etc... but my DW didn't have any tricks or tips. She was simply herself. Even the video interview (which we aren't allowed to repost I fear) was a simple "camera on a tripod, write it out briefly beforehand" affair (OK, one tip: a scrolling movie of your "script", playing on a laptop or iPad held up right behind the camera by your camera assistant, makes a dandy teleprompter). I have no idea what Disney uses to make cuts (how would you ever sort through 20k entries to get down to even a couple hundred?!?). But I suspect in the end, what they are looking for is something they are going to find in the genuine "you".

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Brian Davis