The State Department on Tuesday officially terminated the employment of approximately 200 foreign service members as part of a reduction in force (RIF), part of more than 1,300 layoffs at the agency ...

Foreign Service officers warned that colleagues competing for a finite number of top scores could jeopardize the collaborative nature of diplomatic work.

Despite a recent recruitment campaign, the State Department has not allowed laid-off employees to compete for vacant ...

Less than 10 weeks after the State Department laid off hundreds of Foreign Service Officers, citing bureaucratic bloat, it is beginning to bring nearly 100 new ones on. Last week, the Office of Talent ...

The US State Department has rolled out sweeping reforms to its Foreign Service Officer (FSO) exam and training system. The changes are part of a broader effort by the administration of Donald Trump to ...

President Donald Trump’s State Department has fired a foreign service officer who admitted to hiding a relationship with a woman who had known ties to the Chinese Communist Party, the department ...

Usually, 2/3 of U.S. ambassadors come from the career foreign service. But the Trump administration has named mostly political ambassadors, leaving senior career diplomats with few prospects.