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so.. I really enjoy listening to the daily briefing from the State Department. I think it is educational and amusing all wrapped up in about thirty minutes. I found this on Monday's brief...
QUESTION: Yesterday he and Congressman Ackerman sent a letter to Deputy Secretary Negroponte imploring the State Department to make use or to hire some of the 300 or so Arabic, Farsi and Urdu, I think, language military people -- people with those skills who have been discharged from the military under "Don’t ask, don't tell." Do you have any idea what, if (a) if there's been a response or what the Department's position is on hiring or would be hiring some of these people?
MR. CASEY: Well, a couple of things, Matt. My understanding is we just received that letter this morning and I'll certainly want to allow the Deputy Secretary's staff as well as our legislative affairs folks an opportunity to take a look at it. Certainly, we'll give an appropriate response to Congressman Lantos and Ackerman.
In terms of hiring, as you know, the Department is very much interested in recruiting Foreign Service Officers and folks for Civil Service and other appropriate positions who possess what we call critical language skills and that does include Arabic and Chinese and a variety of other languages out there. And we are certainly open to any individuals possessing those kinds of skills to come and apply for work with us. We do actively look for individuals who have those kinds of skills and we certainly do not discriminate in our hiring practices has been our longstanding policy.
I will make sure that we, you know, give you a response in more detail specifically to the issues raised in the letter once people have had a chance here to look at it. But again, we would certainly welcome any Americans with talent and skill and interest to contact us if they are interested in employment. And we do, as I said, spend a good deal of effort trying to recruit individuals who represent the diversity of America as well as individuals who have certain critical skills, among them included being Arabic language.
QUESTION: Maybe you don't know the answer to this because it hasn't been fully gone through -- the letter. But you are open to the possibility of recruiting them or you would actually actively go out and seek them or do they have to come to you?
MR. CASEY: Well, again, all I'm talking about, Matt, is just the general principle we have of we are actively looking for individuals with these kinds of skills. We also are certainly open to individuals coming to us to seek employment with those kinds of skills or qualifications. So you know, as far as I know, there has been no active recruitment campaign related to these specific individuals, although there is a general effort to recruit individuals that have these kinds of skills.
Again, in terms of what our response will be to the Congressmen, we just received the letter, and I want to let our folks take a look at it first and then determine what the response ought to be.
Yeah.
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This is a great idea - we could recycle their training and use them at the State Department. I hope this idea catches on. It would be a benefit and a cost savings since they received top notch training at DLI.
QUESTION: Yesterday he and Congressman Ackerman sent a letter to Deputy Secretary Negroponte imploring the State Department to make use or to hire some of the 300 or so Arabic, Farsi and Urdu, I think, language military people -- people with those skills who have been discharged from the military under "Don’t ask, don't tell." Do you have any idea what, if (a) if there's been a response or what the Department's position is on hiring or would be hiring some of these people?
MR. CASEY: Well, a couple of things, Matt. My understanding is we just received that letter this morning and I'll certainly want to allow the Deputy Secretary's staff as well as our legislative affairs folks an opportunity to take a look at it. Certainly, we'll give an appropriate response to Congressman Lantos and Ackerman.
In terms of hiring, as you know, the Department is very much interested in recruiting Foreign Service Officers and folks for Civil Service and other appropriate positions who possess what we call critical language skills and that does include Arabic and Chinese and a variety of other languages out there. And we are certainly open to any individuals possessing those kinds of skills to come and apply for work with us. We do actively look for individuals who have those kinds of skills and we certainly do not discriminate in our hiring practices has been our longstanding policy.
I will make sure that we, you know, give you a response in more detail specifically to the issues raised in the letter once people have had a chance here to look at it. But again, we would certainly welcome any Americans with talent and skill and interest to contact us if they are interested in employment. And we do, as I said, spend a good deal of effort trying to recruit individuals who represent the diversity of America as well as individuals who have certain critical skills, among them included being Arabic language.
QUESTION: Maybe you don't know the answer to this because it hasn't been fully gone through -- the letter. But you are open to the possibility of recruiting them or you would actually actively go out and seek them or do they have to come to you?
MR. CASEY: Well, again, all I'm talking about, Matt, is just the general principle we have of we are actively looking for individuals with these kinds of skills. We also are certainly open to individuals coming to us to seek employment with those kinds of skills or qualifications. So you know, as far as I know, there has been no active recruitment campaign related to these specific individuals, although there is a general effort to recruit individuals that have these kinds of skills.
Again, in terms of what our response will be to the Congressmen, we just received the letter, and I want to let our folks take a look at it first and then determine what the response ought to be.
Yeah.
link
This is a great idea - we could recycle their training and use them at the State Department. I hope this idea catches on. It would be a benefit and a cost savings since they received top notch training at DLI.
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