how hard is it to become a diplomat in your country? to people from countries which have a test have you taken it or plan to take it? here being a diplomat is very hard and mostly nepotism or applying and being one of the few lucky to get to the test
the only prerequisites are to be brazilian born and have a college degreebut the exam is very difficult and competitive
>>215336926it's the same as in your country
>>215336926you have to speak 3 foreign languages,which i cannot
>>215336926it IS mostly nepotism in every country to varying degrees. at best, you'll need to be a multimillionaire with a track record of being able to hang with other elites.
>>215336926>how hard is it to become a diplomat in your countrysuper easy>step 1: be born in diplomat family>step 2: get diplomat job
>>215338127it's very meritocratic herehttps://cdn.cebraspe.org.br/concursos/IRBR_25_DIPLOMACIA/arquivos/Ed_1_IRBr_CACD_25_abertura_atualizado.pdfpage 43 onwards has everything you need to study
>>215336926First step is to be a 33rd degree freemason
>>215336926super hard considering koreans are very competitve unless you learn a niche language that no one wants to learn like urdu
>>215338307when i was a kid my friend was a kuwaiti-brazilian whos father was kuwaiti diplomat in brazil and then here for a while then moved after two years, i liked diplomatic work because i thought his father was cool
>>215336926There's two things here:1. The Ambassador/High Commissioner2. The diplomatic staffTo be (1), you either have to be a politician or famous person or very long serving civil servant. Ambassadors are "appointed" by the country they are posted to, hence they can be dismissed by the host country. To be (2), you have to join the civil service and work your way up to a foreign posting. You can also be an X-attache, where X = your branch of civil service. E.g., you can join the military and later apply to be a military attache to your embassy.
