Embassy questionsss?

Question

What are the types of jobs that one can have inside a foreign embassy? How does one go about getting one of the jobs? How can i become an ambassador or foreign diplomat?

Answer 1

I worked in an Embassy by virtue of a military position. There are Marine Security Guards as young as 19 in Embassies.  I got there when I was 44 years old. I worked in the Office of Defense Cooperation.

Want to be Ambo?  Join the State Department. Take the tests and go form there. Or join the NSA or other highly visible organization and maybe the President will make you Ambo one day.

There is no easy route.  Why don't you write/e-mail an Ambassador and ask then what to do to get their type of job?  I am sure you will get a reply from most of them!

Answer 2

Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states. It usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the intercession of professional diplomats with regard to issues of peace-making, trade, war, economics and culture. International treaties are usually negotiated by diplomats prior to endorsement by national politicians.

The word stems from the Greek word "diploma", which literally means 'folded in two'. In ancient Greece, a diploma was a certificate certifying completion of a course of study, typically folded in two. In the days of the Roman Empire, the word "diploma" was used to describe official travel documents, such as passports and passes for imperial roads, that were stamped on double metal plates. Later, the meaning was extended to cover other official documents such as treaties with foreign tribes. In the 1700s the French called their body of officials attached to foreign legations the corps "diplomatique". The word "diplomacy" was first introduced into the English language by Edmund Burke in 1796, based on the French word "diplomatie".[1]

In an informal or social sense, diplomacy is the employment of tact to gain strategic advantage or to find mutually acceptable solutions to a common challenge, one set of tools being the phrasing of statements in a non-confrontational, or polite manner.