Foreign Service
Jobs Using French
The foreign service is the branch of a federal government that offers diplomatic services to other countries. Foreign service employees staff the country's embassies and consulates around the world, and thus need employees who speak foreign languages.
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The requirements for a foreign service officer vary from country to country, so it is important to start your research by seeking out information from your own country's goverment pages, not those of the country you'd like to live in.
I know that for the United States, prospective foreign service officers have approximately a 1 in 400 chance of passing both the written and oral exams, and even then they only get put on the waiting list. Placement can take a year or more, so this job is definitely not for someone who is in a hurry to start working.
Here are links to some foreign service information sites. If you know of any for non-francophone countries that I missed, I'd love to know so that I can add them to this page.
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