INFORMATION SESSION: Career and Internship Opportunities with the U.S. Dept. of State

Tom Armbruster
Senior Foreign Service Officer
Diplomat in Residence
City College of New York

Date: April 4th, 2012
Time: 1:00
Place: 4130 Posvar Hall

Come see how you can contribute to and join Secretary Clinton’s foreign policy professionals who manage America’s relations with the world. The Foreign Service offers the opportunity for public service, challenge, lifelong learning, foreign language study, and the chance to live and work overseas. On Wednesday, April 4, Senior Foreign Service Officer Tom Armbruster, most recently U.S. Consul General in Vladivostok, Russia, will present a discussion on State Department internships, both in American embassies and consulates abroad, and at State Department headquarters in Washington. Mr. Armbruster will also describe the process for becoming a Foreign Service Officer and the 13 dimensions that successful candidates demonstrate. Foreign Service officers serve in these career tracks: Consular – touching the lives of others through American citizen service and visa adjudications; Management – making diplomacy work and keeping our Embassies and Consulates running; Economic – promoting economic partnerships, free markets and trade; Public Diplomacy – explaining American values and policies through speakers, exchanges, and cultural programming; Political - analyzing political events and advising Washington and the “country team” at the Embassy, headed by the Ambassador.