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Any US citizens working at the Embassy hired in Colombia?

Are there any US citizens in this forum or do you know of any who are working in any position at the US embassy and were hired in Colombia and not sent down from Washington as a Foreign Service Officer? You had or they had a Colombian work permit and were residing in Colombia, probably bi-lingual, and are NOT a relative of a US government employee?

I wanna know since they advertise that some positions are open to US citizens with the above mentioned requirements but I would bet they have hired very few? Me thinks they don't really want to do so?

By sanandressi on May 5, 2009, 12:54 in Friendly Talkzone.

Miguel_Clavo says on May 5, 2009, 13:09:

Just the thought of going back to work for the government makes me want to vomit.........jajajjajaja

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Catfish35 says on May 5, 2009, 14:38:

Jajaja Miguel..you got that right!! Have to be damn nice job! No?

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Miguel_Clavo says on May 5, 2009, 15:41:

Catfish35, it really would have to be a sweet job to even waste 1 second of thought.....however, i never really understood the goverment principle of promoting a person to their level of incompetency.....fokin scary...

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roloenNJ says on May 5, 2009, 16:10:

The more you screw up !!!!the higher the promotion is.....

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jusjoseph (☼Travelguide writer) says on May 5, 2009, 17:09:

In the embassy in Colombia, they hire who the want. Once again, the rules apply to the other people. If you want specifics sanadressi, email me.

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shazam (☼Travelguide writer) says on May 5, 2009, 19:50:

Most US citizens hired within Colombia to work at the US embassy are dependents (wives, legal age children) of current US employees. i.e. DEA agents's wives are hired to run the CLO or work as secretaries. This is the second largest US embassy in the world (after Bagdad) and there are lots of position. They send out a monthly newsletter to employees and listed US citizens with job positions available. These are also posted on their website.

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sanandressi says on May 6, 2009, 05:58:

Exactly jusjoseph and shazam, they are allowed to engage in nepostism which is supposed to be illegal but they are a so called "excepted" agency. They have even set up summer jobs programs for their children on break from college. Then they pay a Colombian national LESS than the US citizen family member if they end up hiring a Colombian to do the same work! Yes, foggy bottom!

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span_colombia says on May 6, 2009, 12:30:

this is a funny conversation, but seriously, imagine what it'd be like to make the 'low' us wage of $34,000 in colombia. that's like 6 million pesos/month!

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sanandressi says on May 6, 2009, 13:40:

I still have not found out about a single US citizen hired in Colombia who is not a relative!

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Boisegringo says on May 6, 2009, 16:25:

I looked at a couple of positions on the embassy website... They didn't use the words proficient in Spanish and English, but "fluent". I am guessing that is their wildcard... It's always easy enough for them to say to an American Joe living in Hicksville USA that level three Rosetta Stone doesn't quite make the grade, or a local Bogotano that his/her Berlitz class just doesn't cut the mustard.... But get some wife, daughter, son, or what have you, then fluency is a matter of degrees....

There are many attache positions not related to the State Department, at the embassy level, but for the extraneous agencies they report to, those are sweet jobs that are handed out to a very select few.. Those folks always buy their suits with two pairs of pants because they are always on their knees working on their next promotion...

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Rikito says on May 7, 2009, 06:23:

johnny2008, what were you smoking when you wrote your comment? I think that maybe you are the one who has never seen daylight. And 50,000 employees? Why?

...and so it goes

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jusjoseph (☼Travelguide writer) says on May 7, 2009, 11:25:

You to go tu www.usajobs.gov and look at the overseas positions and that will narrow your search. They are obligated by international agreement to hire locals for non sensitive positions.

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Robert Jorge says on May 10, 2009, 11:52:

200 underground levels? That is significantly taller, deeper, than the Sears tower.

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