Foreign Service Officer: ORAL ASSESSMENT STUDY GUIDE

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Candidates will be assessed in this exercise on the following dimensions: Composure, Information Integration and Analysis, Initiative and Leadership, Judgment, Objectivity and Integrity, Oral Communications, Planning and Organizing, and Working with Others. A Note on Using this Material: The group exercise in this study guide includes: 1) Memo from the U.S. Ambassador in Kuman directing the working group to make a recommendation on which proposals to fund (one page); 2) Background material on Kuman and U.S. objectives in the country (five pages); and 3) Memos describing and commenting on the proposal candidates are to present (16 pages). To conduct a practice session of the group exercise consisting of, for example, four candidates: • Each candidate should receive one (1) 2-page proposal to prepare, along with the full five pages of the background material. • Group members should spend 20 minutes reading their materials, taking notes, and organizing their thoughts. • After the preparation time is over, the Ambassador’s memo should be read aloud. The individual organizing the exercise should decide beforehand on the funding available, and note that in the memo – the group members should not have to spend time determining, for example, what 50% of $750,000.00 is. This means the individual needs to conduct preparatory work by selecting the specific proposals before the exercise starts, adding up the dollar amounts being requested from the U.S. embassy in each, and noting the specific dollar value of the total funding available from the U.S. Embassy. (During an actual group exercise, the amount of funding will already have been determined for the candidates.) • Each candidate should give a five-minute presentation on his or her proposal. • Candidates should then begin the discussion phase and come to agreement on which projects to fund. • After the exercise is over, candidates might want to review the dimensions that are assessed during group exercises and – using the definitions of the dimensions given in this study guide – critique the performance of group members, discussing where the dimensions were shown and where there could be improvements.
The Embassy of the United States of America Asima, Kuman MEMORANDUM TO: FROM: SUBJECT: The Working Group The Ambassador Special Projects I will allocate the available Embassy resources based on the proposals and recommendations of your Working Group. The Working Group should consider proposals now before it and prepare a memorandum to me listing only those projects it recommends. The funding available is only ____. (Note: Candidate who is organizing this exercise should fill in a sum equal to 50% of the total cost of the projects the group is reviewing prior to the beginning of the exercise). Please list below the names of the projects that the Working Group recommends, and the dollar value of each.
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