Part 1: My PlanFor my blog, I’ve decided to write about a topic that is currently relevant to my life. I have researched, and will be writing about, how to apply to the Disney College Program, and what happens if you get in. Living with the Mouse. I chose this name for Disney's most iconic character, Mickey Mouse. This is a play on the fact that I will be living in Walt Disney World during my program. The main intention of this blog is to be informative, but also include advice and my personal feelings. When writing to my readers I plan to be informative, yet personal. I want my audience to receive the information they need, while also being able to connect to me and my experience. I plan to try and connect with my readers, but to not come off as if I know it all. This entire process is new to me, and I'm learning as I go along. Specific topics:Blog #1: Initial Application I intend to write about what the applicant has to do, and how they might feel when they apply to the Disney College Program, I will also include tips, and personal advise for each step of the process. Phase one includes submitting an initial application. Here, I will explain what the most important sections of the application are, what you should spend the most time on, and what the recruiters might be looking for. Then you wait. Blog #2: Web-Based and Phone Interview You'll receive a thank you email, but what you're waiting for is a pass to the web-based interview. Once you take the 30-40 minute interview, you wait again. After this you might receive a pass to schedule a phone interview. Now, you prepare and practice for this. After your interview, you wait once more. At this point you can wait days, or you can wait weeks/months. Honestly, at any point during this time you can be waiting days/weeks/months between each step. Also between each step you could receive an NLIC (no longer in consideration) email. This nicely means, "Thank you for applying, but you're out." This post will include mostly little tips and advice to get through the interviews. Blog #3: Disney College Program Auditions This was something I went into completing blind and alone. I traveled to NYC to attend the audition to potentially be a character performer. Turns out, it's not all that it seems. This is the most competitive aspect the Program has. Between travel time, and the length of the audition, it is a long and tiring day. I plan to tell what happened there, what you can where, and information I was unaware of going in that day. This blog is unique because it’s not just information spit out onto a page. This is an experience that I have been through and am still going through. I will be writing about the Disney College Program application process, and all that follows. While there are other blogs that inform students of this information, I’ve yet to find a blog that puts you in that person’s shoes. That’s my main goal for my blog. I want the reader to view the process through my eyes. My audience for this blog are students interested in program, but don’t know much about it or the application process. The only people who can apply to this program are students enrolled in, and are attending, college. So, I am writing to college students, and high school students who intend on attending college. There are other programs for other individuals, but this one pertains specifically to students in college and who are over the age of 18. The college students reading this blog are students who want to know about the process and what it feels like to go through the process. Part 2: My ResearchWhile I researched 10 different blogs, I've decided to highlight the top two that stood out to me, and will most influence how I write my own blog. This piece is written differently than most blogs. It's not paragraphs or loads of detailed information. Instead, it's 180 thoughts that you have as you go through the DCP. The author's purpose is to allow the reader to feel what she left as she went through the program. She is writing about 180 different ideas that no one mentioned to her before she attended. This article is written for readers who are looking to find out what it feels like to be a part of the DCP. This includes students in college, or who will be attending college, and are looking into the program. This post is not meant to give information about what the program is, but rather learn about how it feels to be a part of the DCP. The blog post will three years old in June, but it is still relevant to the readers. It doesn't matter how much time goes by, it does not affect how this author felt during the program. The author does not introduce herself in this post, I am assuming because she has another tab that's all about her. However, it would have been nice to learn something about whose writing before reading. It would allow the reader to see who the author is and maybe why they are writing this in the first place. The author's main goal of her blog is to write about something that most people forget about, how it FEELS to actually experience the program. It's a personal post about a personal experience. At the conclusion of the post, there are photos and links to share the blog on social media. Additionally, there is a space available for readers to leave comments or ask questions. The number of comments is not calculated, but there are a lot of people who responded to the post. The author frequently responded to her reader's comments. This shows that the author cares about their blog and their readers. By talking to them, they are connecting with them
Initial Reaction: I LOVE the way this blog is set up. It's bright, colorful, and attractive. There are also images that are clearly personalized for her page and post. What I first noticed about this blog is that it's nearly four and a half years old. However, from my personal experience of actually referencing this post during my process, it's still relevant. This post is unique to this topic. Usual blogs about the phone interview phase of the process are advice, tips, or tricks. This blog post is a "cheat sheet". The author provides sample prompts, questions, and responses for the reader. It's reference that has been created to be used to practice your phone interview, or to have handy during the phone interview. Her main goal is to prepare the reader for the interview. She intends to expose the reader to what a phone interview could entail. Like another blogger I've researched, this author does not write about or introduce herself. This is not the author's only blog post, so it's assumed that if you want to get to know the author you will go to her "About Me" page. This page has a title, as well as the job description of the author. This allows the reader to see that she has been through this process before and is here to share what she knows. Additionally there are multiple tabs at the top that lead to other pages on her blog site. The post is then broken up into five different headings with various information, questions, and responses posted underneath. A reader can leave comments on this post, in fact twenty-four people already have. Some readers left commentary on how much this sheet helped them, others asked questions. From what I can see, the author kept up with her page and answered questions/discussed with her readers. People who would be attracted to this page is an even smaller audience. Once you have made it past the initial application and web-based interview, you have to complete a phone interview. So, she is writing to college students who have made it to this point and are preparing for their phone interviews.
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Emily Horn
27/3/2018 16:26:16
Hi Jada!
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Jada GriggsI'm a college student attending Rowan University, and I will be attending my first Disney College Program this summer ! Categories
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