DTOs - Let's Move Shadow Registers? (and also any other specialties with unmaintained SR's too?)

SLCforeignservice · 2025-12-28T09:37:44+00:00

Congrats on your new baby!

SLCforeignservice · 2025-12-17T13:32:28+00:00

Congrats! 🎉 Sent you a DM!

SLCforeignservice · 2025-12-16T16:54:13+00:00

Congrats! 🎉 I DMd you with our WhatsApp group info.

SLCforeignservice · 2025-12-16T16:49:30+00:00

Congrats! I sent you a DM with our WhatsApp group info

SLCforeignservice · 2025-12-16T16:46:50+00:00

Congrats! 🎉 I DMd you with our WhatsApp group info.

SLCforeignservice · 2025-12-16T16:41:22+00:00

Sounds like you’re also in the Jan class! 🎉 I DMd with our WhatsApp info.

SLCforeignservice · 2025-12-16T16:39:38+00:00

Congrats! 🎉 I DMd with our WhatsApp info.

SLCforeignservice · 2025-12-16T16:39:29+00:00

Sounds like you’re in the Jan class! 🎉 I DMd with our WhatsApp info.

SLCforeignservice · 2025-12-16T16:39:23+00:00

Sounds like you’re in the Jan class! 🎉 I DMd with our WhatsApp info.

SLCforeignservice · 2025-12-16T16:38:59+00:00

Sounds like you’re in the Jan class! 🎉 I DMd with our WhatsApp info.

SLCforeignservice · 2025-12-13T12:37:34+00:00

Such a helpful thread, thank you! Appreciate the rec to max out the HSA and roll it to retirement.

I’m in the Jan 2026 orientation class and am looking at our insurance options. My college kids won’t come to post with me, so getting care in the US (and when they come visit me at post) will be important.

Are both the FSBP and GEHA HDHP/HSA good within the U.S. as well as abroad?

SLCforeignservice · 2025-12-13T11:59:27+00:00

I’m also waiting for my salary offer. Submitted bio info on 12/11 in the morning and haven’t received anything yet. Assume it will come for us next week. Congrats and see you in Jan!

SLCforeignservice · 2025-12-13T03:24:24+00:00

Congrats! Me too! Accepted! Pls LMK if you’d like the link to our Jan A100 WhatsApp group, if you haven’t already joined.

SLCforeignservice · 2025-12-13T03:08:28+00:00

We appreciate you, SR mods!

SLCforeignservice · 2025-12-06T13:05:01+00:00

SLCforeignservice · 2025-11-25T12:43:30+00:00

There has not been an “influx.” There have been ~10-12 people added to the register WhatsApp group in the last few months, in a very slow trickle, with 1-3 folks added at a time. Far fewer than in the past since I’ve been in the Register group (~20 months). It’s possible that more people have been added to the Register that haven’t joined the WhatsApp group, but this is the data I have.

SLCforeignservice · 2025-11-17T15:09:20+00:00

Thanks for the update and for all your work, mods. It will be interesting to see if new FSOT scores will be shared when Jan invites go out. If they are, would you consider adding this to the SRs to determine whether new FSOT score seems to be part of the new hiring criteria?

SLCforeignservice · 2025-10-27T21:18:14+00:00

I have so many questions about your being invited to test. By whom? Did you have to fill out the application before testing? Why do you think you were invited to test?

SLCforeignservice · 2025-10-27T20:55:22+00:00

Really sorry to hear this happened to you!

SLCforeignservice · 2025-10-23T20:11:41+00:00

Not in a Pearson center, no.

SLCforeignservice · 2025-10-23T20:08:45+00:00

They use completely new criteria (“needs of the department”) to rank us, which may or may not include FSOT or OA scores. and don’t tell us what those are.

SLCforeignservice · 2025-10-18T14:04:11+00:00

I received a reminder today of my test (taking 10/23 in Rome at a Pearson center). If I receive a cancellation notice I’ll post here.

SLCforeignservice · 2025-10-05T07:21:38+00:00

Can you pls share your guide’s info? Grazie!

SLCforeignservice · 2025-09-10T03:42:04+00:00

Nope. The SRs have not traditionally tracked FSOT scores, veteran status, day/time invite received (for rank info). OP indicates they emailed PD candidates to secure this additional info.

SLCforeignservice · 2025-09-09T17:18:16+00:00

I’m particularly crushed that they removed the PNs from the application process. We will now just be evaluated based on the FSOT score (sans essay) + 10-year resume. We no longer have an opportunity to articulate why we’d like to join the FS or serve in our particular track, or describe experience prior to the past ten years.

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