Originally Posted By dagobert Disneyland Paris is starting its recruitment campaign for the 20th birthday. The Casting teams will be traveling to the Baltic states, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Eastern Europe. <a href="http://corporate.disneylandparis.com/CORP/EN/Neutral/Images/uk-2011-09-13-european-recruitment.pdf" target="_blank">http://corporate.disneylandpar...ment.pdf</a> I find it very interesting that the German speaking countries are stil not on the list. Instead they are going to Greece, Italy and Spain, three countries in a deep crisis. I really wonder how many guests from these coutries will come in the next year. Does ED SCA know that there are more countries in Central Europe?
Originally Posted By dagobert On the other hand it is good that some people from these countries get the chance to find a job.
Originally Posted By u k fan ^^^ I was going to say the same thing. It may well be that they think they'll have an easier time recruiting from these countries due to the economic climate. Maybe they're already under-represented?!!!
Originally Posted By dagobert I hope that the recruitment countries were chosen based on languages needed. I've never had a problem at the resort, because nearly everyone speaks English and I still know some French. But I know that German is very underpresented at the resort.
Originally Posted By Bolna dagobert, I agree that German is not spoke very much at all and I think if they had any serious interest in the German tourist markt, they ought to improve that area. I am always annoyed how unprofessional the public announcements in German are because they don't have a native speaker record them. And the typos and grammatical errors in their printed German is really bad as well. Any native speaker would be able to eliminate them by proofreading it - even Word would catch a lot of the mistakes. But I think ukfan has a point that they might just not be able to recruit people in the German speaking countries for low-paying tourism industry jobs - aren't Austria and Switzerland importing lots of seasonal workers themselves? And with unemployment going down very much here in Germany as well, I think they have much better chances to find motivated and people who speak foreign languages elsewhere in Europe.
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>But I think ukfan has a point that they might just not be able to recruit people in the German speaking countries for low-paying tourism industry jobs - aren't Austria and Switzerland importing lots of seasonal workers themselves? And with unemployment going down very much here in Germany as well, I think they have much better chances to find motivated and people who speak foreign languages elsewhere in Europe.<<< Yeah that's true. Austria imports a lot of tourist workers from East Germany, Czech Republic and Slovakia. At least during the skiing season. I'm going on skiing vacation each year and we have met many East Germans. Here they earn a lot more than back home. >>>dagobert, I agree that German is not spoke very much at all and I think if they had any serious interest in the German tourist markt, they ought to improve that area. I am always annoyed how unprofessional the public announcements in German are because they don't have a native speaker record them. And the typos and grammatical errors in their printed German is really bad as well. Any native speaker would be able to eliminate them by proofreading it - even Word would catch a lot of the mistakes.<<< I know what you are talking about. The sad thing is that even WDW does it better. In 2008 we met more German speaking CMs in Florida than a few months later at DLRP. The advertising department isn't very professional in Paris.
Originally Posted By u k fan I've met more UK CMs at WDW than at DLP, but I was in the UK Pavillion at the time!!!
