; (3) placing job advertisements in newspapers, magazines, and job sites oriented toward diverse groups; (4) providing opportunities through highly respected, international leadership programs, that focus on diversity recruitment and retention; and (5) cultivating partnerships with organizations dedicated to the advancement of the profession of international affairs and national security to advance shared diversity goals. 405. Veteran recruitment for the Foreign Service (a) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that the Department should offer both the Foreign Service written examination and oral assessment in diverse locations throughout the United States, in addition to the District of Columbia and San Francisco. Doing so would ease the financial burden on potential candidates who do not currently reside in and must travel at their own expense to these two cities, particularly veterans and military members transitioning to civilian life. (b) Foreign Service examinations Subsection (b) of section 301 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 ( 22 U.S.C. 3941 ) is amended— (1) by inserting (1) before The Secretary