Comments on: What’s next with the Foreign Service http://www.vonhinken.com/2009/03/03/whats-next-with-the-foreign-service View the veracious videnda of these viaggiatory vagabonds as they venture to a variety of vicinities! Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:02:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Lola http://www.vonhinken.com/2009/03/03/whats-next-with-the-foreign-service/comment-page-1#comment-17411 Lola Tue, 19 May 2009 14:29:58 +0000 http://www.vonhinken.com/?p=300#comment-17411 CORRECTION.. Taking the exam in October of this year. sorry CORRECTION.. Taking the exam in October of this year. sorry

]]> By: Lola http://www.vonhinken.com/2009/03/03/whats-next-with-the-foreign-service/comment-page-1#comment-17410 Lola Tue, 19 May 2009 14:29:17 +0000 http://www.vonhinken.com/?p=300#comment-17410 Hi, I am a CS (Civil Servant) with the DOS and plan on taking the test in Nov09. I was reading and saw that there are some study groups on skype. can anyone help me find a study group? I think the skype thing is great. I am here in the DC area. Hi,

I am a CS (Civil Servant) with the DOS and plan on taking the test in Nov09. I was reading and saw that there are some study groups on skype. can anyone help me find a study group? I think the skype thing is great. I am here in the DC area.

]]> By: Chet Cromer http://www.vonhinken.com/2009/03/03/whats-next-with-the-foreign-service/comment-page-1#comment-17136 Chet Cromer Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:45:51 +0000 http://www.vonhinken.com/?p=300#comment-17136 I am excited to follow your FS comments. My wife is going to the FSOA in about a month and we are excited also. I was reading about a man who passed the FSOA in January 2008, began A-100 in March, 2008, and left for his posting (India) in July, 2008. I realize that this in not typical, but some people do move quickly from passing FSOA to being sent overseas. Have you heard of anyone that took the FSOA around the same time as you that have already received an invitation to an A-100 class? Thanks, Chet I am excited to follow your FS comments. My wife is going to the FSOA in about a month and we are excited also. I was reading about a man who passed the FSOA in January 2008, began A-100 in March, 2008, and left for his posting (India) in July, 2008. I realize that this in not typical, but some people do move quickly from passing FSOA to being sent overseas. Have you heard of anyone that took the FSOA around the same time as you that have already received an invitation to an A-100 class?

Thanks,

Chet

]]> By: Two Crabs http://www.vonhinken.com/2009/03/03/whats-next-with-the-foreign-service/comment-page-1#comment-16928 Two Crabs Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:18:16 +0000 http://www.vonhinken.com/?p=300#comment-16928 Thanks for posting this detailed "what next" post. I've been studying like crazy and a member of several Skype study groups, and a London in-person study group. My OA is scheduled for 4/14. Egads! Your comments on the SF86 is scaring me, because if they interview everyone on my list, my background check will take at least a year to come through...my printed eqip is 82 pages long!! Argh! Thanks for posting this detailed “what next” post. I’ve been studying like crazy and a member of several Skype study groups, and a London in-person study group. My OA is scheduled for 4/14. Egads! Your comments on the SF86 is scaring me, because if they interview everyone on my list, my background check will take at least a year to come through…my printed eqip is 82 pages long!! Argh!

]]> By: Barbara http://www.vonhinken.com/2009/03/03/whats-next-with-the-foreign-service/comment-page-1#comment-16916 Barbara Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:01:24 +0000 http://www.vonhinken.com/?p=300#comment-16916 Congratz!!!! If your security check is anything like the Intel ones, they will keep circling the waters (your 15 references are springboards) until they stop finding new people to talk to. E.g. they will ask your 15 who else have they met through you, then those new people who they have met through you, etc. etc. until no new names show up on the list. I hear its pretty cool. Take care! Barbara Congratz!!!!

If your security check is anything like the Intel ones, they will keep circling the waters (your 15 references are springboards) until they stop finding new people to talk to. E.g. they will ask your 15 who else have they met through you, then those new people who they have met through you, etc. etc. until no new names show up on the list. I hear its pretty cool.

Take care!
Barbara

]]> By: "The Mother-in-Law" :) http://www.vonhinken.com/2009/03/03/whats-next-with-the-foreign-service/comment-page-1#comment-16888 "The Mother-in-Law" :) Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:44:33 +0000 http://www.vonhinken.com/?p=300#comment-16888 Melissa: Congratulations honey!! I really did not have any doubt that you would pass though. Thank you for the time line - it will save you having to answer our questions over & over. We're really proud of you. And yes, it has been a long time since Chad has been to the Dr. He was always the one that didn't need to go & we were making more trips for Christine. But it will do him good to get a full physical. (He won't want to hear me say that but it's true. :) ) Love, Beth & Carl Melissa:
Congratulations honey!! I really did not have any doubt that you would pass though. Thank you for the time line – it will save you having to answer our questions over & over. We’re really proud of you.

And yes, it has been a long time since Chad has been to the Dr. He was always the one that didn’t need to go & we were making more trips for Christine. But it will do him good to get a full physical. (He won’t want to hear me say that but it’s true. :) )
Love, Beth & Carl

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