What does a Foreign Service Officer Do?
Foreign Service Officers (FSO) work for the U.S. Department of State, the lead Foreign Affairs Agency to help formulate and to implement foreign policy of the United States. An essential part of the American front line personnel at all U.S. embassies, consulates, and diplomatic missions, they will be found at more than 265 locations worldwide as well as Washington, D.C.

Dates to Remember:
July 3, 11:59 p.m. (U.S. Central Standard Time): Deadline for candidates intending to test overseas to submit a completed Registration Package.
July 9, 11:59 p.m. (U.S. Central Standard Time): Deadline for candidates intending to test overseas to schedule a test seat.

How do sign up?
For more information, or to register to take the Foreign Service Exam, please visit http://careers.state.gov/officer/register.html

Are there study materials for the exam?
The U.S. Department of State will send you the FSO Test Study Guide for $20.00. To order visit http://careers.state.gov/officer/register.html

There are several stages to the exam process, right? Yes.

1. In the first stage, you will fill out a Registration package that consists of an application form and a set of personal narrative questions that, taken together, provide information about your experience and qualifications.
2. The second stage of the selection process is the Foreign Service Officer Test. After you have submitted your Registration package, and there are seats available for a given testing window, you will be notified by email with instructions on how to schedule your appointment. Seating during each testing window will be limited, so email invitations to schedule test appointments will be sent to registrants on a first-come, first-served basis according to when the completed Registration package was approved.
3. In the third stage, a Qualifications Evaluation Panel will consider your full application file.
4. You will then receive an electronic notification informing you whether or not you have been invited to the fourth stage, the Foreign Service Oral Assessment.

When and where is the Foreign Service Officer Test in Cairo?
Saturday July 12 and Saturday July 19, 2008. U.S Embassy Cairo
Saturday July 12 and Saturday July 19, 2008 USAID Cairo.

Visit http://careers.state.gov/officer/register.html for details regarding time slots.

Feel free to contact Deneyse Kirkpatrick (KirkpatrickDA2@state.gov) in Human Resources for more information.

Please Note Those requesting reasonable accommodation are urged to submit the registration package at least three weeks prior to the requested test date to ensure that the requested accommodation can be arranged by the test date.