I had my French language test today. To be honest, I was rather dreading it because I only took a few years of French in college and that was many years ago. However, I had set the bar appropriately low for myself and therefore managed to make my goal.
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Apparently the PR and recruiting campaigns of the State Department are paying off.
The Department of State jumped to third place from 36th a year earlier as an ideal employer in an annual poll of undergraduates reported by BusinessWeek. Philadelphia-based Universum Communications announced its 2006 survey results that are based on 37,000 undergraduates in the Class of 2006. The Department of State is the highest- ranking Federal agency, listed right under #1 ranked Walt Disney and #2 ranked Google
I have turned in my final bid list to my Career Development Officer (CDO). Where I’ll be heading overseas after training is now out of my hands. It was never much in my hands in the first place, but my chance to make my preferences known is now past.
I’ve survived what has been explained to us as the worst week of A-100 training in the Foreign Service. We had entire days of filling out forms, PowerPoint presentations explaining the bureaucracy of the State Department, tours of the training facility, tours of Main State (the actual downtown offices), filling out more forms, and countless other little things.
As of about 9am this morning I became an official representative of the United States of America.
I arrived at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) bright and early and began the immediate regression back to college. The training facility is massive and made up of multiple buildings scattered across a pretty campus larger than my own alma mater. I was processed, given a name badge and security tag, and then we were taken in groups in a whirlwind tour of the campus. At this point I don’t really remember where anything is, but there were definitely geese and a pond.
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