Elmore Named New IMI Job Corps Director

JOURNAL: ISSUE 4 - 2012

Jonas Elmore, Job Corps Regional Director and member of Local 4 Indiana/Kentucky, has been named National Director of IMI's Job Corps Program. Elmore himself represents a Job Corps success story, having gotten his start in the trade at the Golconda, IL Job Corps Center in 1993. He went on to complete his apprenticeship in 1997 as a Local member. He earned his Associate of Applied Science degree at Ivy Tech State College in Indianapolis in 2002, while serving at the same time as an instructor in IMI's mobile training program. He served as a brick instructor at the Atterbury Job Corps in Edinburgh, Indiana from 2002 until 2008, when he became Regional Director of the Job Corps for several states in the Midwest.

"Jonas has a strong record of performing and excelling at every task he has been assigned," said IMI President Joan Calambokidis. "As a Job Corps graduate himself, he knows how to reach the young people we are trying to reach out to, but as a very active member of his Local, he also knows what the industry needs and expects in terms of new entrants to the workforce. We look forward to tremendous growth in our Job Corps program with his leadership."