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How To Find and Get a Job _ Internship FASTER Working for DISNEY Right After Graduation (Part 1)
Jan 26, 2024
I'm interning right now as a producer for Disney/ABC! This position was HIGHLY competitive. Here's how I found out about it, got it, and how you can find careers with Disney or anywhere as well!
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So if you clicked on this video, you're probably wondering 1. What is it like working for Disney
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And 2. How can I work for Disney? Well in this video, I'm going to show you just that
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Hi everyone and welcome to my YouTube channel ESPDANIELLA. Feel free to go ahead and follow
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me on TikTok as well. My content is very, very popular on there. But anywho, getting back into
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the whole premise of this video and everything, I have just finished up week 3 of my internship
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working for Disney slash ABC News at the national level. And I am specifically working for ABC News
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Live, which is fairly new to the whole Disney, ABC News family because you know you got Good Morning
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America, you have The View, you have Nightline, What Would You Do, etc. And so with this internship
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I had the opportunity to tell them my preference as far as where I would prefer to work for the
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internship. So when they were asking me this, I said that I have a preference for like working
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for Good Morning America or The View or ABC News Live and then they placed me with ABC News Live
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And so far I have loved it. My bosses are amazing and they make me feel very at home even though
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this is a completely remote internship. Of course if we weren't in the pandemic or anything, it
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would be in person. But I work for ABC News Live as a producer, interning producer, and I have
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already learned so much within the three weeks so far. And this is a 10-week internship, so I have
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seven more weeks to go. And I'm actually the very, very first intern that they ever have because ABC
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News Live is still new. It was recently established back in 2018, I believe. So that was like what
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three years ago from now, 2021. So they're still trying to build up like their audience and all
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that. And of course since I have a background, a strong background in like social media
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and engaging my audience via social media, I feel like that was one of the things that really helped
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with propelling my application over other people trying to get this same exact internship
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So now that that has been established, let's get into how I got to even knowing about this
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internship, how I even knew it existed in the first place. Okay, pause. I wanted to share with you guys
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this free resource that can help you with securing your next internship, job, career, whatever it may
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be. And this is especially helpful for those of us who don't already have, you know, prior paid work
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experience with this. Let me just show you. So the site is called theforge.com and they show you
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bite-sized five to six hour virtual work experience programs that give students a genuine career
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advantage with fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Citi, General Electric, etc. And here's
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some of their feature programs that they're highlighting right now such as this one, Software
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Engineering Virtual Experience. So when you click on that, it redirects you to here, this page, and you
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just register. And again, it's totally free to do. And you can watch this preview video right here so
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you can have better insight on all of what it's going to cover. And if you scroll down further on
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the page, you will see all these insights of what you can get out of this program such as earning a
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certificate at the very end of it, what you will be learning such as Python which is commonly used
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in computer science, and some of the benefits of doing these free courses through Forge is that
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you will greatly increase your chances of getting that job and what it is truly like working for a
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particular company because they will assign you with tasks here and there of assignments that you
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would actually be doing if you were working for that particular company. One of the perks of Forge
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is that no applications or experience is required and you get to learn highly relevant skills in
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your own time at your own pace. And also if you are curious on what courses they are offering at
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that point in time, you would just go here to where it says course catalog and scroll down and then you
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would just filter the options to whatever interest you have. And as you can see, they have quite a
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variety of different types of things that you can be doing. So let's say for example that you want
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to work for Microsoft and boom, all of these courses that are offered by Microsoft totally
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for free and again you will be way more likely to get the job with them if you do one of their courses
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So I am a part of what is called a professional organization relating to my major, relating to
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what I want to do. So since I major in broadcast journalism, well I just graduated with my undergrad
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in broadcast journalism, so I am a member of the National Association of Black Journalists or NABJ
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for short. So once you become a member of this organization or other professional organizations
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especially as they relate to media, they hook you up with a lot of internship opportunities
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scholarship opportunities, mentoring, webinar sessions on how to improve your skills as a
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professional, all these different things are made available to you at a really affordable cost. So to
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be a member of a professional organization, typically I have to pay like 40 to 50 dollars per year but
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honestly it has been worth it because now I have this internship and I got another internship just
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last year, another remote type of internship. That one was supposed to be, through NABJ, it was
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supposed to be in person but again the pandemic caused it to be not in person and so originally
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it was planned to be like a all expenses type of internship, which means that they were willing to
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pay for transportation like airfare, they were willing to pay for like housing, hotel stay
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meals, all of that. But because of the pandemic that old internship was technically a unpaid
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internship which I typically do not advise people to do, but with that particular internship I
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learned so so much. I was literally trained one-on-one by some of the leading graphic designers
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for the New York Times and my graphic design skills went from here to here because I have a
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background in graphic design. I did three years of it back in high school. Originally I thought I
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would major in it once in college but I switched to journalism last minute, but the thing about
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graphic designing is that it is so important in any industry, especially in media. So having that
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skill under my belt, having that and mentioning that like on my work portfolio, my resume cover
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letter, all of that also I believe is what really helped with propelling my application for this
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internship with Disney. So yeah, with this internship for Disney slash ABC News, I found
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out about it initially via an email newsletter because they send again internship scholarship
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opportunities for us to apply for, so I applied for it. And let me tell you something about this
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application. It was so long. That was one of the longest applications I have ever come across and
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I've already have, you know, a lot of experience with applications because of course I help students
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win scholarships and scholarships always have applications whether they're short or long
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And this one was the longest I've ever experienced. I was literally this close, this close, so just
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not filling it out because it was taking forever. Just as how the internship I had last year with
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NABJ, that application took forever. It was very long. I wanted to highlight this because so many
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of us miss out on opportunities because the application is asking for too much paperwork
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too much information. So please, please, please do not let that get in the way of you because
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I literally would not be where I am today with internships or scholarships having graduated
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just recently debt-free with my undergrad and already having like three scholarships for grad
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school had I got deflected from or detracted from the application process simply because it was
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asking for too much information and paperwork. So please don't let that get to you. Also I wanted to
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provide a bit more of a background regarding this internship. So of course I'm a member of NABJ
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however this internship was also partnered with other professional organizations that are also
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ethnic organizations. So for example, NABJ, National Association of Black Journalists, but there's also
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one for Hispanic journalists and there's also one for Asian journalists. So within each of these
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professional organizations, they were picking one or several of us. I'm not sure how many in total
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there's going to be, but so far there's been one of us from each of those organizations who were
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selected for this opportunity and then from there we were spread to different markets, different
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shows. Some people went to Good Morning America, some people went to The View, and then I went to
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ABC News Live. So that's how this works and so this is why it is so imperative in my opinion to be a
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member of a professional organization because they have these partnerships with very established
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brands and companies that can get you into that door much faster rather than just only depending
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on like LinkedIn or Indeed to find you a job. I also wanted to plug in here that if you go to
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jobs.disneycareers.com, they have all of these different careers that you can go into. So
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basically you would just type in a keyword and all of these different opportunities will show up
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and you can filter the options even more by like states if you're wanting to work in a particular
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state you don't want to be out of state or whatever. And so let's say that you want to apply for
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this one in Chicago. So you would scroll down, make sure you thoroughly read, and I mean thoroughly
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read, the responsibilities that you have, basic qualifications, all of that, and then you can
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either apply to it now or apply later. So let's just click apply now for an example and you would
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have to sign in with your username. Okay so I signed in and let's press let's get started. Now a
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lot of these things are already pre-put in here because since I'm already in their system as an
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intern for Disney, a lot of these things I don't have to update. Now I will warn you ahead of time
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that applying for jobs or internships for Disney, it's not going to take you like 10 minutes. It
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might take you up to an hour. So be prepared, set some time aside, and really focus in on it. So now
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let's talk about my actual application that secured me this very highly competitive internship
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working for Disney because the thing about this particular internship and working for the news at
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the national level, like it's one thing to work for local market you know state level news but to work
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at the national level my application had to be really really compelling to stand out especially
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as someone straight out of college. I imagine they might had a preference for hiring people for this
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internship who are more seasoned, you know years and years of experience in the field of journalism
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and like me who's just you know a recent college graduate. But yeah let's just look at my resume
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and my cover letter that helped me with securing this internship and this is also a great example
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on how you should format your cover letter and resume for scholarships as well because a lot of
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scholarships require cover letters, resumes, work portfolio, things like that. And we will also look
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at my work portfolio so you can see all of the amazing things that I have done as a journalist
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and producer. Now before I conclude this video I mentioned several times throughout it that I help
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students win scholarships and the cool thing about knowing how to win scholarships like the algorithm
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to knowing that those same skill sets can be applied to obtaining internships, jobs, whatever
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opportunity it may be for you. So I highly recommend that you watch my other YouTube videos on here as
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well as considering to get my book The Scholarship Algorithm. It actually recently sold out in Target
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it's pretty popular now especially ever since I went viral constantly on TikTok for it and all of
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my advice there. But yeah I have won 28 scholarships 25 of which were for undergrad three of which were
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for grad school and I plan on winning even more so yeah consider getting my book. A lot of people
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have won it such as this student who won the $100,000 scholarship from Dr. Pepper after reading
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and studying my book and then this student here she was able to win the $40,000 scholarship from
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Amazon, Amazon's Future Engineer Scholarship, highly competitive both of those. So again the book
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is literally nothing, you can't find this information anywhere else I'm serious. My experience
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with scholarships is very unique. I have won scholarships that I was technically ineligible for
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just as how you see people applying for jobs or internships where they might not meet 100
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of the qualifications the same thing can be said for certain scholarship applications. So a lot of
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the advice I have you won't find that anywhere okay? Anywho subscribe, comment, and have a wonderful day. Yeah
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