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The Process to Join the Foreign Service
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Your Guide to Passing the Foreign Service Officer Test. A Day in the Life. You are here: Home. Step One: Research the U.S. Foreign Service. The Foreign Service isn’t your normal 9-5 job. Even if your duties aren’t anything crazy (though they probably will be), you’ll be doing the work in Romania or Qatar or China or Papua New Guinea. It is important to have an honest discussion. With yourself, your loved ones, and your Golden Retriever Kissinger. Are you ready for the massive disturbance in your life?
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Selecting Your Career Track - Foreign Service Test
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Your Guide to Passing the Foreign Service Officer Test. A Day in the Life. You are here: Home. Selecting Your Career Track. Selecting Your Career Track. Preparing for the FSOT, FSOA, and personal narratives. The truth is, it is a very important decision and there isn’t much I can do to help you decide which is the career track for you. You can read all about them here. Working Outside of your Career Track. Another thing to keep in mind is that there is nothing stopping you from doing tours outside of you...
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Your Guide to Passing the Foreign Service Officer Test. A Day in the Life. You are here: Home. Conal Rectification and You. You’ll see that step number one is “Choose a career track.”. That’s all a caveat to say I’m going to break that rule for this post and I hope you’ll endulge me in a little bit of a personal announcement. Lifehacker Article on Diplomatic Life. A few of my FSO friends on Facebook. Did take issue with this bit:. Bottle Neck of Comments. At any rate, I logged in today to do some updatin...
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Let's Be Friends on Facebook - Foreign Service Test
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Your Guide to Passing the Foreign Service Officer Test. A Day in the Life. You are here: Home. Let’s Be Friends on Facebook. Let’s Be Friends on Facebook. As I mentioned recently. I’ve created a new companion Facebook page. For the site. I hope you will consider joining/becoming a fan/friending it/whatever Facebook calls such things these days. Why, you may ask? Selecting Your Career Track. How to Learn a Foreign Language. Foreign Service Salary – Show Me The Money. How to Write Gooder. How to Learn a Fo...
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Foreign Service Test - Page 2 of 23 - Your Guide to Passing the Foreign Service Officer Test
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Your Guide to Passing the Foreign Service Officer Test. A Day in the Life. 24 Hours With A U.S. Diplomat. One of the more popular features of this blog has been my series of posts about the day in the life. Of a Foreign Service Officer. I haven’t added new entries to that series in a while because I’ve covered most of the work that I feel comfortable with. Fortunately, CNN has come along to do my job for me. Even better, they profiled someone I worked with. Can You Pass the FSOT? Peter Van Buren ( famous...
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Consular Officers Helping Americans Abroad - Foreign Service Test
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Your Guide to Passing the Foreign Service Officer Test. A Day in the Life. You are here: Home. Consular Officers Helping Americans Abroad. Consular Officers Helping Americans Abroad. The Washington Post has a great article. Explaining a bit about what U.S. Foreign Service Officers can do to help Americans in trouble aboard. The article focuses particularly on consular work. And should be essential reading for all would-be FSOs as well as anyone considering international travel. Everyone interested in bec...
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A Day in the Life of a Public Diplomacy Officer - Foreign Service Test
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Your Guide to Passing the Foreign Service Officer Test. A Day in the Life. You are here: Home. A Day in the Life of a Public Diplomacy Officer. A Day in the Life of a Public Diplomacy Officer. Public diplomacy is a role that all Foreign Service Officers must undertake to a certain extent. At the same time, it is a separate career track. Typically in a larger embassy, PD officers will be divided between working on the press side of things or dealing with cultural affairs. In our example, we will play ...
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Bottle Neck of Comments - Foreign Service Test
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Your Guide to Passing the Foreign Service Officer Test. A Day in the Life. You are here: Home. Bottle Neck of Comments. Bottle Neck of Comments. As is probably evident from the lack of new posts, I hadn’t checked in on the site for a few weeks. Blame it partially on a week of lounging around a resort in beautiful Mallorca. And partially on not having anything worthwhile to say. In other news, the accompanying Facebook page. I do post things over there that don’t make it to the blog. Enter your email addr...
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24 Hours With A U.S. Diplomat - Foreign Service Test
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Your Guide to Passing the Foreign Service Officer Test. A Day in the Life. You are here: Home. 24 Hours With A U.S. Diplomat. 24 Hours With A U.S. Diplomat. One of the more popular features of this blog has been my series of posts about the day in the life. Charlie Slater, 59, has spent the last 21 years working in U.S. embassies all over the world — from Sierra Leone and Pakistan to Thailand and Ethiopia. Check out the article here. I can confirm it sounds like a pretty accurate portrayal of a typical d...
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The Ambassador Who Worked from the Toilet - Foreign Service Test
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Your Guide to Passing the Foreign Service Officer Test. A Day in the Life. You are here: Home. The Ambassador Who Worked from the Toilet. The Ambassador Who Worked from the Toilet. This article from Ars Technica. Is a pretty interesting read and addresses two undeniable facts of the U.S. Department of State:. It can be very easy for one bad person at post to ruin the morale for everyone. That is especially true when the person is the ambassador. In light of recent revelations. Now Hiring – GSO Spec...
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