this paper wants to be a thoroughgoing analyze of professional development in the context of the concept of"continuous formation" of human resources from educational services in Ia0i city1. Often incorporated in the large conceptof "continuous formation", professional development means much more then formation/obtaining knowledge and abilities, itmeans in fact to improve the existing knowledge and abilities, and to raise the level of professional preparation accordingwith the institutional and/or functional changes existing in the context that human reosurces activates ( in the case ofeducational services – "homo academicus", after the term used by A. Neculau, in „Câmpul universitar şi actorii săi” ). Theprofessional development takes place on the whole professional life period under the form of programs organized inside andoutside the organization/institution, and assures the improvment of knowledge/abilities, which will allow the perssons tounfold their activities in an effiecient manner and also to keep up with the institutional and/or functional changes that appearon the way.