Let's Look at the Issue: The Foreign Service Assignment Process - 1978 Part 5

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AMBASSADOR HARRY G. BARNES JR., DIRECTOR GENERAL, FOREIGN SERVICES, DIVIDES THE FOREIGN SERVICE ASSIGNMENT PROCESS INTO FOUR CATEGORIES - 1) SECRETARIAL ASSIGNMENTS, 2) C&R ASSIGNMENTS, 3) MID-CAREER AND JUNIOR OFFICER ASSIGNMENTS, AND 4) ASSIGNMENTS MADE BY AN INTERFUNCTIONAL PANEL. THE INTERFUNCTIONAL PANEL MAKES ASSIGNMENTS TO POSITIONS THAT ARE NOT DESIGNATED BY FUNCTIONAL CONE, OR WHICH INVOLVE CANDIDATES FROM DIFFERING CONES. CONSISTS OF SUCH A MOCK PANEL, REVEALING THE COMPLEXITY OF THE ASSIGNMENTS PROCESS AND THE FAIRNESS EXERCISED BY PANEL MEMBERS IN MAKING ASSIGNMENTS.

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Records of the U.S. Information Agency

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Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities