Career Services

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Peter Drucker - author and management consultant. In 1959, he coined the term "knowledge worker."

Lifelong Learning – Becoming the Total Professional

The public school system [as Thomas Jefferson envisioned] is now struggling with such new paradigms as knowledge workers, demands for lifelong learning and professionals who probably will retrain for careers five to seven times in the course of their 30-year work span.

Glenn R. Jones, author
Free Market Fusion

Whether you are a current JIU student or alumnus, you have secure online access to JIU's Total Professional Advantage™ community.

As a student, this is the area where you can meet your course requirements and build projects that are relevant and applicable to your current job.

As a graduate, you've invested in a higher education degree. Now, you have unlimited access to tools and resources that will help you market your capabilities and compete for higher earning power in today's knowledge economy. The Total Professional Advantage community enables JIU alumnus to leverage professional and career advancement assistance.

Your success is our urgent concern.

Contact the JIU Admissions Counseling team now to learn more about the Total Professional Advantage added value JIU offers to its students and graduates.

The program components applied here at JIU and the learner expectations closely mirror that which is expected in performance on the job.

Crisostomo Buenavista
Cantonment, FL USA

MEd in Corporate Training and Knowledge Management

Applying what I learned in my classes was the easy part. It just seemed to come naturally when situations arose that I had studied I was able to pull from the new knowledge and move my team forward.

Tina Marie Glenna
Dayton, MN USA

MABC in Leadership and Influence

I met people in the virtual environment that I have befriended and will remain in contact with even though we've never met in person. This has been a great networking experience.

Vernetta Whittaker
Gautier, MS USA

MBA in Entrepreneurship