As you might have noticed (or not) in my footer for the blog, someday I hope to spend my days happily employed in the Happiest Place on Earth (specifically the one on the eastern seaboard at the moment).
So you can imagine for several months I have been keeping a keen eye on the comings and goings of job postings on the Disney Jobs web site (Disney Careers). I'm not certain if it is a sign of the times quite yet, or just a meandering into the early parts of summer and coming up late in the fiscal year for Disney (their fiscal year runs the same as Uncle Sam's, which is to say October 1 through Sept. 30).
Anyhow, at one point Florida had more open jobs then you could get returned in one query (the limit appears to be somewhere around 250). I used to be able to get two or three full queries worth as early as the first months of the year. Today that number for ALL of Florida stands at just around 100, with many of those jobs being professional positions sure, but many seem to be much lower in the 'food chain' than they used to be.
On another note about the same web site, I have tried to share with the Company on a number of occasions the MANY technical and security related issues that they have on the site. I even went so far one time to write a letter to the head of HR in California, who passed it to the gentlemen in charge of the it. Todd and I spoke a couple of times, and they have been playing with the edges, but I haven't seen any appreciable changes since last he and I spoke in last October.
Now it may come across here as me sounding snooty, but for a company that wants to be the 'employer of choice' and whom I dearly both a) want to work for someday and b) ALWAYS want to look the best they can, this web site is a MAJOR deterrent.
For instance, the web site is ACTUALLY outsourced from a popular HR management company by the name of Vurv (formerly Recruitmax) (look at that URL closely on the site). Vurv recently upgraded the database and front end for Disney's site to probably streamline some internal processes a lot. In the process they messed up a lot of things for us outsiders trying to find postings.
One example is a classic cross security domain issue that shows up on the web a lot. Basically is you look the disney.recruitmax.com web site is a SECURE web site (HTTPS using SSL). However, the graphics on the web pages and the left hand column are all on Disney domain servers and are NOT secured. This does not really present any formal security issues, but it IS why every time you go to a page in Internet Explorer (the browser the site says it prefers) you get those nice little pop ups saying the site contains both secure and unsecure items and would you like to proceed? And I do mean EVERY page!
Ironically, it is not an issue in Firefox, since Firefox doesn't do as rigorous a security checking as IE does, and it is probably what the programmer who built and tested the site used too, since it's very common in the programming communities.
It's an easy fix (make sure the graphics URL's being pointed to can also be seen on a secure connection on the original server vice the obviously currently situation where they are on an using an unsecure link). Better yet, put them on the same server as the web server for the actually page to begin with, so you don't have ANY possibility of security leakage.
The site has some other highly annoying issues, like broken sort, broken e-mailing of saved searches, etc. As a technology kind of guy it's sometimes painful to watch a Company you like so much put such a seemingly shaky foot forward before you even get in the door.
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Update: For what it's worth, the security is pretty tight on that site too. I can tell you for instance that they are running Corporate Edition 7.3.9 ;)
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