| Media Note Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC August 30, 2001 Registration for the Foreign Service Written ExaminationMore than 23,500 people have registered for the September 29 Foreign Service Written Exam - nearly twice the number of registrants in 2000. Preliminary data from the registration, now closed, also show an increase in the share of minority registrants to approximately 35% of all registrants. This is the highest percentage of minority registrants in the history of the State Department’s Foreign Service intake process. African-American registration nearly tripled over last year to over 3,000. Hispanic registration doubled to over 2,000. The increase is the result of an Administration-supported hiring drive, including a targeted minority recruitment effort, to hire 1,433 new career personnel in FY 2002 for Foreign and Civil Service positions. Following a ten-year decline, the current totals represent a return to the high registration numbers of the 1980s, with a major change within the demographics represented by a doubling of minority representation. |
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