Applying for the Old Foreign Service
Here’s an entertaining piece by Olya Thompson about applying for the old Foreign Service. At that time the Department of State was actively discriminating against women, a matter that took many years...
View ArticleMG Edwards: I Am No Longer A Foreign Service Officer
Foreign Service Officer MG Edwards just resigned after seven years, and wrote down some cold truths about life at State that are now required reading for all, especially you young ‘uns thinking about a...
View ArticleForeign Service Officer Blogs to Love
As alert readers of this blog know, I am in the process of being fired from the Department of State in large part because of this blog. The firing part revolves around me “writing about matters of...
View ArticleShould I Join the Foreign Service?
(A version of this article appeared recently on the Huffington Post, May 10, 2012) Final tuition bills, spring in the air — it is commencement season, and soon-to-be graduates across the United States...
View ArticleForbes: State Department Number Three Dream Employer
We today celebrate the reopening for business of the U.S. government, a once proud franchise now reduced to periodic closures and reliance on borrowed money to stay afloat. At the same time, the...
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