REVIEW OF APPLICANT FILES OF STATE DEPARTMENT

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• Publication Date: June 26, 1964
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Tom:
We have been following through w4:11 State in the
review and consideration of their applicant files as a
result of your suggestion which grew Out of a cower -
sation you had with Dwight Porter a fear months agc.
I believe we have now established a continuing
liaison which gives us a prom's hrj source In a small
way. I thought you might be interested Li the attached
reports which give a short account of -what we've done
and what the future seems to hold.
la JUL 1964
Deputy Director for Support 71)18
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director clf Peraonnel
SUBJECT : Review of Applicant Files of State Department
1. Mr. and I met with Mr. Zook at ten o'clock on the
22nd of June at Ms office in the new Civil Service Building.
and returned the next day and reviewed the files -- the
result of their review is covered in the attached note from
2. The Foreign Service exa.n is now being given twice a year
and the last cycle produced around 8,000 alptileants. 13% paeeed
the written exam (the percentage passing iv by formula detertniled
by the anticipated input capacity of the Foreign Service for that
year). About a quarter of those who passed the written pass the
orals. These then go on a waiting List from which? if not seleated,
they are dropped 30 months from the dale )1 the written exam.
The waiting list is rank-ordered and revised after each new grt)up
of thowe who pass the orals is added. With the exception currently
of economic, administrative and commercial types, selection is
from the top -- consequently there can be identified still well-quali-
fied people who probably won't be reached teefore they drop frorl the
list. Room for new people this year is small -- about 125. The
files we reviewed were of those who had passed both exams and
were on the eligible list but were not likely to get a chance to E,DD.
3, Mr. Zook is not revealing to the other people in his owv
shop that we are reviewing these files with a view to possible re-
cruitment. Consistent with that wt are making a non-attributable
approach to those 23 we picked out of the first batch. He +expressed
the hope that we might find some quid pro quo but hastened to sey
that he did not mean to look at our applicant files. We said that our
recruiters were aware of their responsibility as Government re-
cruiters as well as Agency recruiters and when appropriate sug-
gested applicants take the Foreign Service exam or the FSEE.
This seemed to be for him a satisfactory response.
STAT
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4. We can expect to bear from him from time to time --
probably semi-annually ? when he has files he believes we would
be interested in.
Chief, Pe
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Division
A footnote of interest is that their applicant files have no
Internal organization either by subject, category or chronology
and consequently are most difficult to review. We would never
put up with such a chaos of paper.
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MitiviORANDUM FOR: Chief, Personnel Operations Division
UBJIECT Review of ISO Applicant Tiles
Mr and the undersigned have concluded a review
)1 38 files of applicant* whe bey. SU44 for F40-7 and 160-8 aPpoint-
gaits with the State Department. This review Was concluded an
,t3 June and took a total of five man-hours totemeiplete.
Z. The quality of this. applicants was excellent. Out elf the
cases we found 32 Whit analifications of definite interest to
Agency requirements. Of the 32. we found 5:applicants whose avail-
thility could not materialise nontil after 1966 (Military obligations),
And in addition interest in 4 'Caws had to be *Withdrawn when Wit
Recovered each of the 4 had wilrea who were net S. citisens,'
. Tha net effort remelted in finding 23 real solid ca.ndidates.
Is intend to make an aggreeltitth employment pitch to each of those
t3 as the Department has adtledd each of the Candidates that their
-hence' of being employed by On Department is quite unlikely.
4= The Department los /*quested that **Agency- make no
-eference to *sir coops ts4? we contact these
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Bertha called to give
a status report on attached.
STAT does
not feel that one of his recruiters
could be spared for this.
Possibly one of Bob
STAT people could go over
and review the applicant files
STAT at State' k away this
week; we will get a full report
after his return.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Personnel
Emmett:
Colonel White advised
8 MAY 1664
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he would be in touch with Dwight Porter after you
lead others
had considered Porter's suggestion that you might review some of the
State Department applicant files, and that you might, also, include an
Agency representative in State Department's recruiter teams.
Colonel White probably will be seeing Mr. Porter
shortly after his return. Have you completed your deliberatioos in this
matter?
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Tom:
laimett &bob is 4loring a atm -
gentian nods by Dvright Porter that
we might benefit front reviewing sit
of the DePetineee et SteMile Preen la
recruitment folders and the possi-
bility that we might include an Agez
representative on the Drpartinent'l
recruiting teams.
We have looked Ws tbe first
platten several times in the pa
the squeegee that we et-ien join
State recrait*g some is new and
Mak it may offer more thin just 0 -
review of files.
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lecrsiery of the Department's
ratanaining Lard to Inquire iothtt
FSO exansfaing and iodic:two
When they have exploree the possi-
bilities of our participation in the
Department's recruitment prograti4
I will get In touch with t wight Porta :
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Officer to the DD/S
SUBJECT Recruitment of JOT'S
REFERENCE Memo for DD/S fr ADD/P dtd 24 Feb 64,
same subject
1. I have discussed the proposal made in referenced
memorandum with my staff and with the Chief, JOTP and the
Chief, AU Staff. We agree that it would be desirable to
explore this idea further.
2. Mr. plan to visit the Exe-
cutive Secretary of the Department's Examining Board in the
near future to inquire into the FSO examining and selection
process. I think we might well combine our purposes in this
visit by including a representative from my office. In any
event, I suggest that Mr.! land a representative of my
office explore Mr. Porter /s proposal further at working level
to get a better idea of the advantages and possible disadvantaors
from our point of view.
_LUTle-GG U. Acnols
Director of Personnel
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MEMORANDUFCR: Deputy Director for Support
SUBJECT: Recruit ent of .14)T3
1. In a recent chat with Dwight Porter of the 3tate Deport-
ment, be asked whether we coulde't take advantage of the
extensive work done by the Derartment in recruiting its young
officers. He recognised fully the so wit different recruiting
criteria involved, but he pobsted out that the Department annually
tests and compiles very useful peritoneal folders on some six or
seven thousand top notkh youagsters and en?up selecting a couple
hundred for its purposes. He thought that the files of those not
selected ought to be available to the Agency, and that perhaps the
Agency could save itself a lot of money by availing itself of this
infortnatioa. He else said he thought it might be peesible to
include an Agency representative on the Is.sitie Department recruiting
teams that went out to intervitre applicants for State positions.
Z. I bring this to your attention because, if Personnel is
not already taking advantage of this, 1 irragine we might wish to
give it very serious consideration.
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