wooo Foreign Service!!
Ahh I love thinking about the future! Ile, with intent of being a Foreign Service Officer with the US Department of State to eventually work in the US Embassy in Japan, was looking up ways she can speed up the process/ get good valuable experience necessary and get on the right track. The State Department website is freakin' awesome. They list out step-by-step how to become a FSO and what careers in that field entail, as well as providing tons of opportunities for us with international aspirations. I've visited their site many times over the past months, and I always learn something new and find different opportunities available that I'd be interested in!
For example, there are many D.C.-based and abroad internships available for students, and I found that I'd prolly like to do this one for the summer:
http://careers.state.gov/docs/4.0_Student_Intern_brochure.pdf
I can also apply for fellowship awards and also get paid based on my financial status (and we all know I'm dead poor), so that works for me! I fully intend on trying for a summer internship with the Dept of State over in Japan. As they put it:
How far could a student internship at the U.S. Department of State take you? Just for starters, it would give you a greatly coveted inside look into Foreign Service, the positions and the responsibilities that are possible. Think of it as test-driving a career before you decide what you’re going to do with your life. You’ll gain valuable work experience that you’ll be able to apply to virtually every endeavor - whether you work in government or in the private sector. Most of all, you feel good about doing something worthwhile for your nation
I wanna test drive my career!! I'm already going to apply for a different internship, based here in LA (Little Tokyo, wooo!) for this summer, which I'm pretty sure I'm going to get. Next summer, if all goes as planned and I can declare my Global Studies major, I'll either be studying abroad in China, France, Mexico, or New York City (depending on the availability of the program), so my next two summers are already filled up, if all goes well. I know I'm thinking waaay ahead, things may not go as planned, but I'm really excited about all this. Anything I do can be added to my resume for applying for...anything else! Such as that spiffy Foreign Service job I wanna get in the future. I hope get to that after I do the JET program (or a similar program?) for International Relations, another resume-filler.
This pretty much stems from that presentation by our Diplomat in Residence a couple months back, and now, next week there will be another presentation by another diplomat guy specifically for careers in Asia for the US Dept of State =D This is all very inspiring, and I must leech out of it as much knowledge as I can.
For example, there are many D.C.-based and abroad internships available for students, and I found that I'd prolly like to do this one for the summer:
http://careers.state.gov/docs/4.0_Student_Intern_brochure.pdf
I can also apply for fellowship awards and also get paid based on my financial status (and we all know I'm dead poor), so that works for me! I fully intend on trying for a summer internship with the Dept of State over in Japan. As they put it:
How far could a student internship at the U.S. Department of State take you? Just for starters, it would give you a greatly coveted inside look into Foreign Service, the positions and the responsibilities that are possible. Think of it as test-driving a career before you decide what you’re going to do with your life. You’ll gain valuable work experience that you’ll be able to apply to virtually every endeavor - whether you work in government or in the private sector. Most of all, you feel good about doing something worthwhile for your nation
I wanna test drive my career!! I'm already going to apply for a different internship, based here in LA (Little Tokyo, wooo!) for this summer, which I'm pretty sure I'm going to get. Next summer, if all goes as planned and I can declare my Global Studies major, I'll either be studying abroad in China, France, Mexico, or New York City (depending on the availability of the program), so my next two summers are already filled up, if all goes well. I know I'm thinking waaay ahead, things may not go as planned, but I'm really excited about all this. Anything I do can be added to my resume for applying for...anything else! Such as that spiffy Foreign Service job I wanna get in the future. I hope get to that after I do the JET program (or a similar program?) for International Relations, another resume-filler.
This pretty much stems from that presentation by our Diplomat in Residence a couple months back, and now, next week there will be another presentation by another diplomat guy specifically for careers in Asia for the US Dept of State =D This is all very inspiring, and I must leech out of it as much knowledge as I can.