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The Foreign Service is made up of five different career tracks, or cones. At the beginning of the hiring process, you must choose a track. We know that this can be a tough decision, so we developed a questionnaire to help you match your interests to the career track that may be right for you.

You will be presented with 10 work activities from each of the five tracks (in random order), and asked to rate how interested you would be in performing each of the 50 activities. It only takes about 10 minutes to complete and your results will be tabulated into a useful bar chart. Please remember that this is just a guide. Trust your personal judgement, not just the results of the questionnaire.