Mr. Martin Fraser:

The senior jobs in the Department of Foreign Affairs are advertised. Individual posts are not advertised; I presume they are advertised internally. I am not in a position to answer that question properly because I am not in the Department of Foreign Affairs.

It is possible, however, to enter the Department of Foreign Affairs and to end up as the head of a mission. The way that it is probably done is that people work in headquarters for a while first and then they end up working abroad. It would be wrong for me, however, to start talking about human resource policies in the Department of Foreign Affairs. It is not something with which I am deeply familiar.