Jabarkan Kerjaya dari Alwi Jantan dalam bahasa melayu

Pelbagai kerjaya telah dilaluinya. Antaranya ialah :

09/08/1958	   Officer, Federal Establishment Office

15/11/1958	   Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Transport

23/03/1961	   Assistant Secretary, Prime Minister's Department

30/11/1961-20/01/1962	   Private Secretary, Timbalan Yang DiPertuan Agong

01/03/1963	   Deputy Pengarah, National Archives Malaysia

31/03/1965-06/05/1965	   Private Secretary, Timbalan Yang DiPertuan Agong

15/02/1966	   Pengarah, National Archives Malaysia

01/01/1971	   Director-General, National Archives and Library Malaysia

01/01/1976	   Secretary-General, Ministry of Local Government dan Federal Territory

19/09/1977	   Secretary-General, Ministry of Health

01/03/1981	   Deputy Secretary-General, Prime Minister's Department

16/06/1984	   Secretary-General, Ministry of Agriculture

03/02/1987	   Director-General, Public Services Department (PSD)

Beliau dilantik bagi khidmat profesional dan sosial berikut :

1972-1976	   Ahli,  MOCCIS Board of Directors

1976-1977, & 1987	   Ahli,  Government Servants Housing Company (SPPK), Board of Directors

1977-1980	   Ahli,  LUTH Travel Agency, Board of Directors

1977-1984	   Ahli,  Pilgrimage Management & Fund (LUTH), Board of Directors

1981-1984	   Ahli,  LUTH Plantation Co. Board of Directors

Executive Vice President, Genting Berhad

10/08/1990	   Director/ Executive Vice President (Public Affairs and Human Resources),Resorts World Bhd.

22/04/1991	   Ahli,  Board of Apex Equity Holdings Bhd.

14/08/1995	   Pengarah, Guinness Anchor Bhd.

2000	   Pengarah, Kolej Antarabangsa Genting (KAG)

2012   Non-Independent Non-Executive Pengerusi,  UOA Real Estate Invesment Trust

1969-1971	   Ahli,  Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP), Board of Management

1978-1981	   Ahli,  University Malaya Council

1979-1981	   Ahli,  University Sains Malaysia Council

1989	   Pengerusi,  Government Worker Committee on Salaries

Feb 1989	   Member of the Cabinet Committee against malpractices in government

1992/1993	   Pengerusi,  National Consumer Protection Advisory Council (NCPAC)

Dec 1990	  Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS)

1955	   Assistant Secretary-General, Federation of Malay Students Unions (GPMS)

1956	   External Affairs Secretary, Federation of Malay Students Unions (GPMS)

1957-1958	   President, Federation of Malay Students Unions (GPMS)

1958-1960	   Treasurer, Malaysian Historical Society Council

1966-1972	   Secretary, National Library Committee

01/01/1971	   Director-General, National Archives and Library Malaysia

1968-1971	Founder Pengerusi,  South East Asian Regional Branch of International Council on Archives (SARBICA)

1970-1971	   Ahli,  ICA Committee for Developing Countries

1971-1974	   Founder Pengerusi,  UNESCO Council for the Study of Malay Culture

1972	   Organising Pengerusi,  UNESCO International Meeting of Experts on Malay Culture, Kuala Lumpur

1973   Pengerusi,  UNESCO International Conference on the Promotion of Malay Culture Studies, Bonn, Jerman

1974-1979	Pengerusi,  UNESCO Advisory Committee for the Study of Malay Culture

Pengerusi,  ICA Coordinating Committee on Guides to the Sources of the History of Nations

1975  Pengerusi,  ICA General Conference on the Planning of Archives Development in the Third World, Dakar, Senegal

1976-1977, & 1987	   Ahli,  Government Servants Housing Company (SPPK), Board of Directors

1976-1980	   Pengerusi,  Malaysia Committee on Man and the Biosphere (MAB)

1976-1977	   Ahli,  Malaysian Organisation for Human Settlements (MHOS) Council

1977-1978	   Ahli,  Malaysian branch, Royal Asiatic Society Council

1979	   Vice-President, Malaysian branch, Royal Asiatic Society Council

1977	   Pengerusi,  Taman Genting Cooperative Society

1978-1980	   Founder Vice-President, UNESCO National Association of Malaysia

1984-1986	Ahli,  ASEAN Agriculture Planning Development Centre Board of Planners, Bangkok

Pengerusi,  ASEAN Plant Quarantine Training Institute (PLANTI) Board of Management, Kuala Lumpur

1985	   Keynote Speaker, Commonwealth Agriculture Bureau International Conference, London

Aug 1989	   President, Malaysian Administrative and Management Association (MASMA)

11/12/1991	   Vice President, Harvard Business School Alumni Club

Beliau turut menjadi ahli berbayar di Lake Club ; Kelab Darul Ehsan ; Royal Selangor Golf Club

Awana Golf & Country Club  dan Pengerusi,  Economic and Social Affairs Committee, MCOBA-OV Council (MCOV)

1965	   Pingat Jasa Kebaktian (PJK) – Terengganu State Government

1968	   Kesatria Mangku Negara (KMN) – Federal Government

1969   Dato' Paduka Mahkota Terengganu (DPMT) – which carries the title " Dato' " – Terengganu State

1976	   Dato' Paduka Mahkota Selangor (DPMS) – which carries the title " Dato' " – Selangor State Government

1986	   Panglima Setia Mahkota which carries the title " Tan Sri " – Federal Government

1989   Sri Mahkota Terengganu (SPMT) which carries the title " Dato' " – Terengganu State Government

Panglima Negara Bintang Sarawak (PNBS) which carries the title "Datuk" – Sarawak State Government

24/10/2002	   Sri Indera Mahkota Pahang (SIMP) which carries the title " Dato' " – Pahang

1965-1966   Fellowship in Archives and Libraries in the UK, Netherlands, Federal Republic of Germany and France dan Unesco.

Ketua Pengarah Perkhidmatan Awam Malaysia