Topics A-Z

Acronyms (PDF)
Allowances
Anniversary, FSI Announces OBC 30th Anniversary in 2007 
Bibliographies
Book lists (Career change and job search - Cross-cultural and protocol)
Business cards (as a Job Search Tool)
Career Transition Center
Cars (select Chapter 8, "Automobiles")
Cell phones (select Chapter 10, "Electricity, Television, DVDs, and Phones")
Checklist for going overseas
Children in the Foreign Service (select Chapter 15, "Children in the Foreign Service")
Classes
Consulting fees (advice for retirees)
Consumables
Contact us
Contingency planning (select Chapter 20, "Contingency Planning")
Country information
Cross-cultural adjustment
CTC newsletter
Diplomatic immunity (select Chapter 21, "Privileges and Immunity")
Directions to FSI and TC
Divorce (select Chapter 20, "Contingency Planning")
Domestic assignments
Domicile and residency (select Chapter 22, "Legal Issues")
DVDs (select Chapter 10, "Electricity, Television, DVDs, and Phones)
Education
Eldercare (select Chapter 17, "Eldercare Issues")
Electricity overseas (select Chapter 10, "Electricity, Television, DVDs and Phones")
Electronic Post Boxes (now called "Post Info To Go")
Embassies and Consulates (list of U.S. Embassies and Consulates and general information about U.S. missions - select Chapter 19, "Overview of a U.S. Mission")
Emergency information for family (scroll down to "Me in a Nutshell")
Employment (after retirement) 
Employment (spouse)
Employment (with Dept. of State)
Estate planning 
Family Liaison Office
Financial planning (general financial planning or planning for retirement)
Finding a place to live in the DC area (scroll down)
Foreign Service Assignment Notebook: What Do I Do Now?
It's Your Move (password=logistics, select "Travel and Moving" from the left menu)
Foreign Service Institute
Foreign Service life
Foreign-born spouses (select Chapter 13, "Spouses and Members of Household")
Glossary of terms (select Chapter 26, "Glossary of Terms and Acronyms")
High Stress Assignment Outbrief Program 
Home offices (advice)
Household help (select Chapter 18, "Household Employees")
Housing (in the Washington, DC, area, whether a tenant or landlord)
Immunizations (contact the Office of Medical Services, your CLO Coordinator, or OBC for user name and password)
Insurance (liability - property - automobile - health - life)
International development resumes (advice) 
Inventory (household)
Iraq
Job Fair
Job leads
Job search assistance professions
Job Search Program
Jobs overseas
Key words (for Resumes and Cover Letters) 
Kids - Internet resources for them
Legal issues (select Chapter 22, "Legal Issues")
Letters to Principal Officers
Logistics of going overseas (Checklist - Foreign Service Assignment Notebook - Transition Center Workshop)
Mail service (select Chapter 2, "Mail and Diplomatic Pouch Services")
Managing your finances 
Medical clearances & issues (select Chapter 5, "Medical Information and Issues")
Morale (select Chapter 12, "Post Morale")
Moving
Naturalization
Newsletters from the Career Transition Center on retirement and job search topics
OBC hours and entry
Online resumes
Outbrief program
Overseas Briefing Center (OBC)
Packing (select Chapter 11, "Packing to Go")
Part-time work 
Personal computing for retirees
Personal Information in case of emergency (scroll down to "Me in a Nutshell")
Pets (Helpful links or Chapter 9, "Traveling with Pets" from the Foreign Service Assignment Notebook)
Planning for retirement
Posting resumes online 
Preparing to go overseas
Protocol (Transition Center workshop - Protocol book list and publication)
Protocol for the Modern Diplomat
Publications
Realities of Foreign Service life (general information or TC Training course)
Resumes (scroll down for related articles)
Retirement Planning Workshop (includes the one-day sessions Financial Management and Estate Planning and Annuities, Benefits, and Social Security)
Schedule a briefing for your agency 
Schools in the Washington, DC, area
Schools overseas
Security Overseas Seminars
Seeking employment after retirement
Separations
Shipping belongings (select Chapter 11, "Packing to Go")
Surviving while your spouse is on an unaccompanied assignment (be sure to check links on the left menu bar)
Taxes (select Chapter 7, "Income Tax")
TC Training Division
Telephone (select Chapter 10, "Electricity, Television, DVDs and Phones")
Television (select Chapter 10, "Electricity, Television, DVDs and Phones")
Training
Transition Center (TC)
Unaccompanied assignments (select Chapter 25, "Unaccompanied Assignments")
U.S. destinations 
What if? (select Chapter 20, "Contingency Planning")
What to pack (select Chapter 11, "Packing to Go")