Friday, April 24, 2009

FSOT First Contact

From Mrs. FSOwannabe's email:

"Dear FSOT Candidate:

Our records indicate that you have registered to take the Foreign Service Officer Test. The next test will be offered June 6-13, 2009.

An invitation to schedule your test seat will be issued soon by ACT, the contract test administrator, on a staggered schedule according to the career track you chose when you registered. You may not change your career track choice.

E-mail invitations to schedule a seat will be issued first to Management candidates beginning on April 27, then to Economic and Consular candidates on April 29, and finally to Political and Public Diplomacy candidates on May 5. After those dates, any candidate who registers before the deadline and receives an invitation to schedule a test seat may do so immediately.

Once you receive the scheduling invitation, you will be able to log in to your ACT account and review the available dates and times at all testing locations. We encourage you to schedule your seat promptly, as demand has increased greatly in recent months."

I haven't received the email yet, but I registered a bit later than Mrs. FSOwannabe. I'll start to panic if I haven't received it by next Tuesday.

I think this is the first time that the FSOT has been open to registration based on the cone one picks. Obvious from the dates, it looks like the Foreign Service is in need of management cone FSOs first, then consular and economic, with political and public diplomacy in last place for need, which I guess makes sense since the political and public diplomacy cones are typically considered the "sexy" cones.

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