U.K January 2010 Applicants

Tori, That'd be fantastic... although I know how much extra you've done between last lot and this lot. Also, congrats... you deserve it.

Gina, Right now, I'm not even sure I want to try again. I'm all up in the air and all over the place. I'm just trying to find some sort of explantion, I think.
I'm not at uni. I was, did two years on two different courses, then left... it just wasn't right for me. I was on the wrong courses, to start with. I'm just wondering if that is going against me as well. Too many thoughts going on, none of them explaining anything.
Hehe, I love working at Zizzi. LOVE my job, and love what I do. It's so nice to actually like the food that you serve at work. The only thing I will say is that we ARE a big chain, and there are times when head office treat even the general manager like an ant. Obviously, as waitresses, we're all ants, but when the manager is an ant as well?! It's a little silly, imo.

Dug, I did the same this time. Scrapped my CV and started again from scratch. No covering letter either, I put it in the motivation box. Perhaps I didn't put enough in the work experience box though? Argh, I just don't know.

 

For those that are wondering- I had my telephone interview this morning. Don't know how it went really, but the questions are all pretty standard, why you want to go, can you deal with heat etc...It only lasted 10 minutes or so..

Also, the woman said that they had rejected 300 just from CVs, so don't be too disappointed if you didn't get through. I reckon there might be another big cut from the telephone interviews so I'm not holding out for much...

Good luck to all the others with telephone interviews x x

 

VikkiLillyBee, I didn't get a phone interview, and I'm graduating with my degree in july, so i don't think it would go against you, I guess it was just really competitive, as I have 4 years work experience in the service industry also. It's just frustrating not having any feedback about where you went wrong hopefully will apply again in June, but it really messes up my timings, as now will have to put things on hold. Congratulations to all who got interviews! Hopefully you will all do well!

 

i got my email thru and i got a phone interview im so excited!

put down to hav my phone interview 2mo so fingers crossed, hav planned it 4 during my break in work, do they call on time or near enuf??

aaaahhhhh im so excited!

 

Mine was about 10 mins late, but she said if I didn't want to have the interview then I could change the time! x

 

cool, i shud b ok onli other issue is signal, we've jus moved into a new building for work and the signal even tho wer at the top of a hill is lousy, il have to hang out a window!! shud b interesting lol

 

vikki,

my cv is realy random cos ive have loads of diff jobs so i thought that wud go againist me and ive never worked in a bar or restaurant.

ive done work in a card shop (temp) a clothing warehouse and volunteered teaching drama at a centre (all while at school)

then i went to uni and did a few more random jobs like holiday rep in the summers and now im a teacher lol random i no

i put on my cv tho interests and hobbies as a section saying about learning about new cultures, languages, meeting new people, liking to read, go out, swim, everything and ANYTHING! lol

 

Vikki

I can't really believe i got a phone interview, i've been working at McDonalds for a year and did work exsperience at legoland which is really easy to get so if you live round there it is worth trying to get.....but i made my cover letter quite cheesy in the Disney image i guess you just have to make it stand out in some way try adding in a poem or somthing i know it sounds stupid but it's what i did!!! don't give up this is my second time and you just have to take it one stage at a time good luck everyone!!!
I got my phone ibterview on Friday with Nick *gulp!!

 

congrats! well done fingers xd 4 ur fone interview!!
and we wer jus chattin the other day too, tho ryan didnt get a fone interview what a shame.

 

Vikki- my application probably looks very different to other peoples. My CV is very skills based. I have a bit of work that I did in a shop part time during a-levels and I work in a library at uni (but only around 3 months working there). But apart from that I don't have much.

My covering letter was very graduate style though, so I did it thinking about the skills they might be looking for and then demonstrating that I have learnt that skill for example- I have great teamwork skills and I demonstrated this by being a cox for the women's rowing squad where I had to do x, y and z. (obv it was a bit more fleshed out but you get the idea). And I put on about what I could give to Disney, and what I think they could offer me.

So perhaps you could do a similar thing but with different experiences that you've had or things that you've done?

x x x

 

Thanks well done too when is your phone interview?? mine is Friday!! *gulp* xx

 

2moro! freakout!!!

 

Same here!!! What times yours?

 

Good luck both of you!!! x

 

Mine's tomorrow too...eeep

 

10.15 with michelle

 

13:15 with Hannah.

Gooooood luckkkkk allllll!

 

Mines 13.15 with Michele!!


Good Luck everyone

 

Congratulations to all getting phone interviews - maybe I'll see you out there in the summer!
Everyone's really nice there - I chatted to them so much at my ICP F2F!

Good luck!
xx

 

cool, fingers crossed lol
im so excited for 2moro now!!!