Trying to Serve

A one-sided Washington Post article has insight into the hiring practices of the Foreign Service

To sum up the article: an applicant passed the rigorous foreign service exam but after informing officials he had obsessive compulsive disorder and takes a Paxil, the State Department decided not to hire him because they felt he would not be eligible to serve anywhere in the world. The applicant filed a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission but lost when an EEOC administrative judge ruled the State Department had not violated the 1973 Rehabilitation Act "because the requirement for worldwide assignment was a lawful, job-related standard."