The State Department is lowering the medical threshold job applicants must meet to qualify for Foreign Service positions, the agency announced on Monday, making it easier for disabled individuals to ...

Yasmine Mirhaji had planned out her last three years at American University’s School of International Service meticulously, ...

As turmoil in the Department of State and widespread disaffection with the Trump administration’s leadership drive away top students from careers in foreign service, educators are sounding the alarm ...

The Biden administration is overhauling the hiring process for Foreign Service officers at the State Department, deemphasizing the importance of the test that all applicants must take in hopes of ...

President Donald Trump’s push to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development and remake the federal workforce is causing whiplash for those who recently entered it hoping for long, stable ...

Cutbacks at the State Department during the Bush administration left the diplomatic corps short on qualified foreign service workers. That changed late in Condoleezza Rice's tenure as Secretary of ...

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