The State Department's Diplomat in Residence, Brooks Robinson (bio at the end of this email) will be in Seattle conducting presentations and info sessions about the Foreign Service Officer Test and Oral Assessment as well as a general Q&A session on 8/16 & 8/17. Please RSVP to caldip5@berkeley.edu
| Seattle FSOT Info Session |
| Tuesday, August 16, 2011 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM |
This event will be held on the campus of Seattle University, in Pigott 203. For a map of the campus, please see: http://www.seattleu.edu/maps/
August 17 from 12-1pm, in Parrington Hall Dean's Conference Room, 2nd Fl., University of Washington Seattle Campus.
This event will be held on the campus of Seattle University in Seattle, Washington. For a map, see: http://www.seattleu.edu/maps/
| Seattle FSOA Info Session |
| Wednesday, August 17, 2011 4:30 PM to 7:30 PM |
The Foreign Service Oral Assessment is the third step in the selection process leading to a career as a Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State. If you have been invited to the Oral Assessment, or think you may be invited one day, then you may want to attend this session. Brooks A. Robinson, a Senior Foreign Service Officer and Diplomat in Residence at the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss what to expect and how to prepare for the Foreign Service Oral Assessment.
Please RSVP to caldip5@berkeley.edu.
This event will be held on the campus of Seattle University in Seattle, Washington. For a map, see: http://www.seattleu.edu/maps/
About Brooks Robinson:
My most recent posting was as Deputy Chief of Mission, Monrovia, Liberia where I helped lead the embassy through a process of normalization following decades of conflict and civil war in Liberia, and through a period of significant growth in staffing and foreign assistance resources.There are so many "most interesting experiences" in any Foreign Service career! I'll choose an example from my most recent overseas posting: I was Charge d'Affaires, a.i. when we discovered that Pakistanis were being trafficked through Liberia to Europe on stolen American passports. This was among the "most interesting" because it immediately became a hot-button, high-profile issue that drew significant attention from various offices in Washington; because it demanded pursuing several fronts at once in order to figure out what was going on and work with host-country officials to take swift action; and because it involved pulling together a team made of up staff from several sections of the embassy who work superbly together and effectively with several different Liberian government agencies. It was intense, important, and demanding. And very, very interesting!My most recent posting was as Deputy Chief of Mission, Monrovia, Liberia where I helped lead the embassy through a process of normalization following decades of conflict and civil war in Liberia, and through a period of significant growth in staffing and foreign assistance resources.
There are so many "most interesting experiences" in any Foreign Service career! I'll choose an example from my most recent overseas posting: I was Charge d'Affaires, a.i. when we discovered that Pakistanis were being trafficked through Liberia to Europe on stolen American passports. This was among the "most interesting" because it immediately became a hot-button, high-profile issue that drew significant attention from various offices in Washington; because it demanded pursuing several fronts at once in order to figure out what was going on and work with host-country officials to take swift action; and because it involved pulling together a team made of up staff from several sections of the embassy who work superbly together and effectively with several different Liberian government agencies. It was intense, important, and demanding. And very, very interesting!
