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of the Big Apple
Nov 2001
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...and I didn't pass it!
It realy is annoying that the thin rejection letter does not give one a breakdown of how one did in each part...
Well, good work Boshko: I have heard that the second part of the progress is a mix of interview and one of these work seminars were you do group porjects and team building excersises.
Also watch out for the CIA background check: if they find any hintof any use of any drugs other than alcohol or tobacco, they give you a negative and a three year ban on security checks at least (I had a friend in the porcess of getting into the CIA as a cartographer, but he made the 'mistake' of admitting that he ahd tried pot, since they try to intimidate you into fessing up)
By the way, which area did you pick, pol, econ, admin, relations, what?
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GePap
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of the Big Apple
Nov 2001
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There is no studying needed for this exam:
The difficualty in getting into the political tract is in the fact that so many people who get into the service pick it, so you have a backlog of people awaiting for that position. Once you choose a tract, they wait to place you (once you are done with the progress) into it once an opening occurs; they don't move people around chosen tracts, so if you chose Political, they won't place you in a consular post, even if it is open.
The witten exam has 4 parts:
A general knowledge section where they ask you US government, US history, world history, organizational knowledge (how to run meetings, motivate individuals), knowledge of basic computer skills (what is e-mail, and I am not kidding about this type of question), US culture, and basic economics (high shcool level at best) questions.
A Basic english exam where they give you written passages and you have to correct them (multiple choice)
A personal questionare (multiple choice) that they use to ask you about life experiences, work experiences, interest in other cultures (like, how many foreign films have you seen in the last year) and asks you to judge yourself (if we ask your friends how good a problem solver you were, they would answer a) very good, b) good, c) fair... so forth and so on).
A written Essay, about 40 minutes worth of writing, ususally asking your opinion on certain policies.
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Bosh
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Taehan Mingook
Jan 1970
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I am really missing much experience of working in groups and teams, so I think my deficiency of experience in those fields did it. |
So you're saying its possible that my student activism experience helped get me a job 
Good luck if you ever try the beast again...
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Congrats man! So where is it that you plan on bringing the revolution to (or do you not have any choice?)? |
No idea. I also still have to pass the oral assesment thingie, but apparently its not that hard for people trying to get on the Consular track...
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BTW, how hard is it to get into the political track? That's what I'm thinking about applying for, so I'd appreciate any info. |
Something like half of applicants try to get into Political, while it doesn't have any more job openings than any other branch so its brutally hard to get into.
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organizational knowledge (how to run meetings, motivate individuals) |
Some of these were very Dilbertian, to the extent that even if you didn't really know what they were saying you could generally pick the right answer fairly easily.
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A written Essay, about 40 minutes worth of writing, ususally asking your opinion on certain policies. |
This one was fun  I went off on tariffs
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Also, does more education boost your chances? |
Won't help you on the test, might help you after that. Also I think you get paid a bit more.
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Boshko: What are the requirements for taking the exam? |
IIRC its just being 21 and a US citizen.
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Bereta_Eder
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intelligent people do stupid things sometimes
also depression seems to be the realm of the intelligent and the sensitive (they seem to fall more than others in depression)
there is also the so called emotional intelligence which has nothing to do with intelligence per se (and a point where i dont particularly excel either)
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