If you’ve cleared the suitability hurdle, you’ve done it. No, you’re not quite hired, but you’ve cleared all the hiring barriers, and now you get to do some more waiting. A job offer and invite to orientation can come at any time. It can come the day you’re added to The Register, or up to
The finish line is in sight. If you have made it past the Medical and Security Clearance process (and every step before it), congratulations! You’re nearly there! The Suitability Review Panel is a group of individuals working for the State Department/Foreign Service, that reviews every candidates application/security package head to toe, and decide if you
Search some popular internet forums like Reddit, and you will quickly realize that the Security Clearance process is one of the most vague and time consuming steps in the Foreign Service hiring process. You will read stories about folks with previous drug use, dual nationality, lived abroad for a decade, and have a Chinese born
*Updated April 2024 to reflect the new medical clearance requirements. So you just passed the Oral Assessment and signed your conditional offer of employment. Congrats, you did it! You’re Hired!!! Oh wait….not so fast. Make no mistake, passing the Oral Assessment means you have cleared more hurdles than the vast majority of candidates that applied
So you applied for a job with the Foreign Service, and just got that sweet, sweet email telling you that you passed the QEP, and will soon get an invitation for an Oral Assessment (OA). Congratulations! I’m not sure what percentage of MPs or other specialists make it this far, but for Generalists the FSOT
This post looks at the next step in the hiring process for just about every individual applying for the Foreign Service, regardless of career track or specialty. The Qualifications Evaluation Panel also know as the QEP. I will also give some brief tips in how to write a decent essay, since they are likely some
Updated: April 2024 This is a quick post to go over the hiring process for the U.S. Foreign Service, with some time references for each step in the process. There is a page here that goes over my personal timeline in the hiring process and everything thereafter. For the most part, specialists and generalists have
Today we are going to discuss the application process for becoming a Foreign Service Medical Provider. The process is fairly similar to many other specialist tracks in the Foreign Service, especially those applying for medical positions. If you are interested in applying as a generalist, the process is slightly different, especially at the beginning, which
Today’s blog post will address a very basic question that has a lot of complexities to it. Why join the Foreign Service? There are many reasons for joining (or not), and on the individual level, you have to ask yourself if it is the right thing for you. In the following, I will try and
If you’ve stumbled onto this page, there’s a chance you already know the answer to what a Medical Provider is within the context of the Foreign Service. However, if you are like me, when researching information about the Foreign Service, I read a lot of blogs and Reddit posts by just about anyone in the
