Working in the Foreign Office: Meet the diplomats

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  • čas přidán 7. 11. 2013
  • British diplomats talk about their lives, careers and opportunities working in and travelling with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. You can find out more about careers in the FCO here www.gov.uk/government/organis... and by following @fcocareers on Twitter.

Komentáře • 60

  • @AmmarSK
    @AmmarSK Před 5 lety +98

    My dream job, really passionate about International affairs and making a difference

  • @edwardbrunker2351
    @edwardbrunker2351 Před 4 lety +20

    This job sounds very interesting and like a good experience.

  • @elianayocheved6413
    @elianayocheved6413 Před 6 lety +30

    Absolutely amazing job...I really hope this is a field I can get into once I finish university. ❤️

  • @FirstContactRAM
    @FirstContactRAM Před 4 lety +5

    Building a strong relationship with every country in the planet but for a group

  • @tomAS-27
    @tomAS-27 Před 3 lety +4

    What qualifications do I need for this?

  • @crescenttv8421
    @crescenttv8421 Před 4 lety +5

    My dream job I'll soon be there

  • @shehzadhabib
    @shehzadhabib Před 6 lety +2

    Do they respond back to you if you contact them. ?

  • @ukforeignoffice
    @ukforeignoffice  Před 10 lety +24

    In this video, British diplomats talk about their lives, careers and opportunities working in and travelling with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. You can find out more about careers in the FCO here ow.ly/qCO6O and by following @fcocareers on Twitter.

    • @markmottram7142
      @markmottram7142 Před 10 lety

      PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO THE DELEGATES AT CHOHM IN SRI LANKA DUE TO START 15TH NOV-17TH NOV. "''tITLED, "" HOW THE WEST WAS CONNED AND THE REAL WAR CRIMINALS OF SRI LANKA 1989-2003.'' WHEN I WAS IN SRI LANKA IN MAY 2012 FOR A HOLIDAY AND GENERALLY IN READING THE NEWSPAPERS, DISCOVERED THERE WERE 250K TAMILS IN CANADA, 150K IN THE U.K, 150K IN EUROPE 50K IN AUSTRALIA AND BETWEEN 40K-50K IN SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA. THIS IS OVER 640,OOO IN TOTAL. SINCE THE TERRORIST WAR IN 1983 REALLY FLARED UP, IT IS QUITE OBVIOUS TO ME THAT, THE LTTE FOUND A QUICK WAY OF SENDING THE MEGA-RICH AND VERY RICH TAMILS OVERSEAS, SIMPLY BY PRODUCING THESE ''SUICIDE-BOMBERS'' LIKE ''FACTORY PRODUCED KILLERS''. THE SAD THING IS THAT THEY COMMITTED 4 TYPES OF GENOCIDE. FIRSTLY, AGAINST THEIR OWN TAMILS, SECONDLY AGAINST THE MAJORITY SINHALESE, THIRDLY AGAINST MUSLIMS AND FOURTHLY AGAINST THE BURGHERS TOO. IN REGARD TO THEIR OWN PEOPLE, IT WAS GENOCIDE, PURE AND SIMPLE. THE LTTE ESTABLISHMENT FOUND THAT THEY COULD ALSO CHARGE EACH FAMILY UP TO $40,000 TO GET THEM THEM ACROSS AS REFUGEES. THIS MADE THOSE WHO RE-SETTLED IN THOSE LANDS ''GENOCIDAL ECONOMIC REFUGEES. AN EXAMPLE HERE IS WHEN THE TAMIL PARENTS DENT THEIR SON OR DAUGHTER TO ONE OF THE WESTERN UNIVERSITIES. ABOUT 6 MONTHS LATER, THE PARENTS AND SIBLINGS WOULD GO ON HOLIDAY THERE. WHILE THEY WERE OVERSEAS, THE LTTE GOT SOME POOR MAN OR WOMAN OR YOUTH TO 'BLOW-THEMSELVES UP''. AS A RESULT THEY WERE GRANTED INSTANT ''REFUGEE STATUS'' AND WITH IT, WERE GIVEN $30 -$40K. THEY OBVIOUSLY PURCHASED RETURN AIRLINE TICKETS - ALTHOUGH THEY KNEW THEY WEREN'T COMING BACK.
      THIS WENT ON UNTIL THE WAR ENDED IN MAY 2009. EVEN THEN THE LTTE WERE VERE INVOLVED IN SENDING THOSE OF WHOM THEY COULDN'T SEND - TO AUSTRALIA BY BOAT FROM INDONESIA 0F COURSE! . ALL THOSE TAMILS WHO CAME WERE LTTE ONES FOR SURE. AGAIN, RECENTLY IT WAS PROVED THAT THEY ARE STILL COMING FROM SRI LANKA BY PAYING ANOTHER BRANCH OF THE LTTE $40K AT LEAST. MY FIGURES TELL ME OVER 200,000 WENT OVERSEAS THIS WAY. THEN OBVIOUSLY 2 YEAR'S LATER THEY WERE TO SPONSOR OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS. AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED - THEY ARE ALSO ''GENOCIDAL ECONOMIC REFUGEES'OR IN OTHER WORDS - BY THEIR ACTIONS THEY ARE GUILTY OF ''AIDING AND ABETTING'' THESE GENOCIDES.
      SO REALLY THE WEST WAS TOTALLY CONNED. ESPECIALLY CANADA. ALL YOU WESTERNER NOW ALSO HAVE ''GENOCIDAL BLOOD ON YOULL'S HANDS'''. THE TAMILS IN ENGLAND FOR EXAMPLE, HAVE MANY TIMES TRIED TO STOP TEST CRIKET MATCHES PLAYED. ALL THIS FUSS IS MADE SO THERE WILL BE M O R E INTERNATIONAL SYMPATHY AND THEN MORE TAMILS WILL HOPEFULLY BE PASSED TO SETLLE IN THESE WESTERN NATIONS.
      UK CHANNEL 4 WAS ALSO INVOLVED IN FALSE PROPAGANDA OVER ALL OF THESE YEARS. ALSO REGARDING PRABAKAN'S SON, WHAT WAS HE DOING THERE WITH THE LTTE FORCES? I WOULDN'T PUT IT PAST THEM TO HAVE KILLED HIM IN ORDER TO BRING MORE BAD PUBLICITY AGAINST THE SRI LANKAN ARMY. SURE MANY SRI LANKANS TOO ARE SAD ABOUT HIS DEATH, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE 31 BUDDHIST MONK NOVICES AGED BETWEEN 15-18 YEARS PLUS 3 ADULT BUDDHIST MONKS WHO WERE HACKED TO DEATH. WEREN'T THOSE YOUNG NOVICESES, SOME MOTHER AND FATHER'S SON?
      SO, DID 70,000 OR MORE SRI LANKANS OF ALL RELIGIONS, CASTE AND CREEDS DIE - SIMPLY FOR THESE MEGA-RICH TAMILS TO HAVE A FUTURE IN THE WEST? I HOPE THE TAMILS LIVING IN SRI LANKA TAKE NOTE OF THIS AND EXTEND THEIR ARMS AND HEART IN A GENUINE RECONCILIATION!
      AS FOR THE TRUE TOTAL OF CIVILIANS WHO MAY HAVE PERISHED DURING THE LAST FEW DAYS - EVEN THAT TOO IS GROSSLY EXAGGERATED. MANY THOUSANDS TOOK OFF BY BOATS TO TAMIL NADU - THEY OBVIOUSLY WEREN'T COUNTED IN THE FIGURES.
      PLEASE LET THE REST OF THE WORLD KNOW OF WHAT I HAVE JUST STATED. MY OBVIOUS REAL IDENTITY WILL BE REVEALED IN DUE COURSE, MAYBE A MONTH OR SO FROM NOW.
      MY AIM IS TO SEE A TRUE AND LASTING RECONCILIATION. TOO MUCH OF BLOOD HAS BEEN SPILT AND TOO MANY THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF LIVES LOST, JUST SO MEGA-RICH TAMILS COULD LEAVE SRI LANKA.
      AS FOR THE OTHER ÁIDING AND ABETTING'WESTERN NATIONS - A CLASS ACTION WILL BE FOLLOWED SOON!

    • @rumanhashmi2932
      @rumanhashmi2932 Před 10 lety

      we can not solve terrorism by isolating it,state violent and suppression policy against minorities and terrorism goes side by side.

    • @markmottram7142
      @markmottram7142 Před 10 lety

      ***** but basically, do you agree or not with my main views? a response in any manner would be welcome! ta

    • @thegreatone921
      @thegreatone921 Před 10 lety

      Thank you for all that you do!

    • @RemnantRus
      @RemnantRus Před 7 lety

      Foreign & Commonwealth Office can this apply for the Netherlands

  • @freedomsorator2217
    @freedomsorator2217 Před 7 lety +2

    So cool!!!!!

  • @world_0198
    @world_0198 Před měsícem

    I'll be there this year !

    • @xav3436
      @xav3436 Před měsícem

      Would you mind sharing your journey?

  • @tuttubabukarna
    @tuttubabukarna Před 2 lety

    Thanks

  • @adarshvarma3524
    @adarshvarma3524 Před rokem +2

    I'm an international relations student first year. I am certainly going there.

  • @feefees9796
    @feefees9796 Před 5 lety +6

    I want to become a diplomat. Where can I get started?

    • @MrRooibos123
      @MrRooibos123 Před 5 lety +1

      Just look for vacancies. A degree helps if that's an option but if not start climbing the ladder in the Foreign Office.

    • @ricardofrancis5056
      @ricardofrancis5056 Před 5 lety +2

      You should join a political party wherever you reside and you may just get lucky. There are of course other options. The Venting Vigilante.

  • @anik8559
    @anik8559 Před 6 lety +4

    What is the recruitment process of it?

    • @darrenhudson5503
      @darrenhudson5503 Před 4 lety +11

      Get into oxford or cambridge and they will recruir you

  • @johncalder5703
    @johncalder5703 Před 4 lety +3

    My dream job, doing very little, foreign travel, being important, big pay packet and massive pension. What’s not to like.

  • @adityasehrawat99
    @adityasehrawat99 Před 8 lety +3

    gud music

  • @denzelfenty123
    @denzelfenty123 Před 7 lety +6

    my dream job

  • @kienwenchang7108
    @kienwenchang7108 Před 2 lety +1

    Intel Agent + College Lecturer + Preacher + Stock Investment Manager + Foreign Office Employee = 5 sources of Incomes!

  • @oliverbrown747
    @oliverbrown747 Před 4 lety +3

    Do you need a degree to work for the FCO?

    • @sashamellon822
      @sashamellon822 Před rokem +2

      NO YOU DONT ! Not in the uk. It’s an interview process.

  • @hamzas6406
    @hamzas6406 Před 5 lety +15

    I wanna be a diplomat

    • @Respectfully.Stephh
      @Respectfully.Stephh Před 5 lety +1

      Suleman Jaro what a diplomat does? Talking so someone who does that

  • @vladimirleopoldo3521
    @vladimirleopoldo3521 Před 3 lety

    Olá iam Vladimir id like to work for you on Health

  • @frogswell8964
    @frogswell8964 Před 3 lety +3

    "LoL , no black men ?

  • @marblezulu8117
    @marblezulu8117 Před rokem

    I am a diplomat.

  • @chihebzayani2755
    @chihebzayani2755 Před 9 lety +4

    They look desperate

    • @DelReyno
      @DelReyno Před 9 lety +3

      2:57 "I'm not a diplomat". Title of video "Meet the diplomats". Yep.

    • @hamzas6406
      @hamzas6406 Před 5 lety

      Oof

  • @vladimirleopoldo3521
    @vladimirleopoldo3521 Před 3 lety

    Olá iam Vladimir id like to work for you on Health