We are proud to partner with Junior Achievement of Maine, as they provide the first steps towards readying Maine’s workforce of tomorrow by…
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Connectivity Point in Falmouth is the brain behind the technology that most people use everyday, and has upheld the “Best Place to Work…
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Are you ready to Live and Work in Maine? Thousands of Maine Employers are proud to call Vacationland home...and ready to help you,…
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Learn more about Sea Bag's growth as a company and the ecological impact of their recycled sail products. Another Maine gem.
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A University of Maine graduate, who moved away for years to D.C., is now back home, working on her family farm and raising her family. Learn more about Aurora Mills and Farm.
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The employees at CashStar, a software company in Portland, value their work life balance in Maine.
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Erin meets with employees at Fluid Imaging Technologies, a particle analysis digital imaging company, which was named one of the best places to…
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Going further north to Presque Isle, the employees of MMG, a progressing insurance company, reflect on what their Maine life looks like.
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Erin visits the family at Nature's Circle Farm, where they’re harvesting vegetables through the fall and winter.
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Erin visits WEX, a corporate payment company, whose CEO has led the company to one of the highest earning businesses in Maine.
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Thank you to the Maine employers who joined us in Boston for a networking reception w/ talented folks looking for opportunities to start…
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Cirrus Systems produces some incredible lighting products for the global marketplace - and they do it from Saco, Maine.
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Located in Brunswick, Maine, one of the top downtown communities in the Nation, Bowdoin College has been producing top talent since 1794 -…
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The Maine Hire-a-Vet Campaign is all about connecting veterans with jobs in Maine – and Live and Work in Maine is proud to be a…
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Two awesome Maine companies come together to create something great!
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Baker Newman Noyes is a great Maine based Accounting Firm that's continuing to grow! They have a culture everyone can enjoy and truly…
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Certify is an expense report and expense management solution for small businesses and enterprises. They also offer assistance with booking travel! Their headquarters…
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Who wouldn't love to work for a family operated business that treats you like one of their own! Hussey Seating Company does business…
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Galli Valet is a great new parking solution for busy downtown Portland, Maine!
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A cozy Maine town that's building itself up to be a destination spot people living or just visiting Maine need to stop!
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The VIA Agency is a full-service advertising and marketing agency located in our very own Portland, Maine! VIA encourages creativity to come up…
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Who doesn't love a cool treat from Gifford's Ice Cream on those warm summer nights in Maine?! It's great to get a behind…
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"This National Science Foundation grant allows us to recruit and graduate some of the best science students from New England and beyond," -Saint…
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Do you need a new and fun adventure for you and the kids? How about just a nice night out with friends? Head…
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Thanks to NPR All Things Considered for featuring us on Thursday’s program - if you missed it on the radio, check it out…
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We love to hear a good story of people coming back to their Maine roots and even more so when they find a…
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Need a good place to stay while you visit Maine? Want to be on the coast and close to the shops and restaurants…
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Interested in getting into Banking? Bangor Savings Bank has offices all around Maine and offers a great environment for it's employees including; a…
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EMHS (Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems) is an integrated health delivery system serving the state of Maine. EMHS offers a broad range of health…
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Are you looking for help with Brand Strategy, Digital Marketing or Advertising for your business? Look no further than Blaze Partners right here…
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Tilson Technologies helps government agencies and large commercial organizations implement big technology projects. Tilson currently has 240 employees, 65 of those employees live…
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Ever wonder where the shells of the delicious Maine lobsters you just ate are going? Chances are they're ending up at Coast of…
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Grand Rounds matches patients with top notch doctors and just recently opened a location in Lewiston, Maine! They are working towards expanding their…
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This great Maine based company is 100% Employee Owned! Johnny's Selected Seeds mission is helping families, friends, and communities to feed one…
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Maine is fortunate enough to have one of the largest employers stationed in our Mid Coast. Athenahealth currently has 950 employees in their…
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Did you know that Tyler Technologies, Inc. is the largest company in the United States who creates software for the public sector? Maine…
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So glad that Brian and Owen decided to bring their business back to Maine! MedRhythms is a neuro-rehab company that works to restore…
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If you live in the Northeast, chances are you've seen their tomatoes in your local grocery store! Backyard Farms grows tomatoes all year…
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Another great episode from our partnership with MaineLife featuring Hardshore Distilling Co.
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The Wall Street Journal cited Live and Work in Maine and the Opportunity Maine Tax Credit in their coverage of Connecticut's efforts to…
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WCSH6 (NBC) followed us to Boston...check out their story:
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Employers with open jobs set out to sell Maine’s appeal. BY EDWARD D. MURPHY ~ STAFF WRITER A busload of Maine entrepreneurs and…
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We're headed to Boston this Thursday, to connect and engage with folks who are looking for ways to grow their career and/or company…
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by Craig Anderson Live + Work in Maine, an initiative to promote employment in the state, has launched an online listing service to…
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WCSH6 in Portland, ME interviewed Engagement Director Nate Wildes and his fiancé Jamie Pacheco, who runs New Beet Market in Brunswick, Maine, as…
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WABI TV5 interviewed us as part of their coverage on the Alfond Leaders Student Debt Reduction Program – it makes a powerful statement by putting real money towards attracting and retaining the kind of talent Maine's economy needs to thrive and grow! Check out the story here: http://wabi.tv/2017/02/21/new-statewide-student-debt-relief-program-unveiled/ Learn more about the program, and how you can apply, here: www.alfondleaders.org
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Our website has been redesigned to include a job board, to help Maine employers attract, retain and grow talent in Maine. Employers: Start Posting…
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Andy Beahm may just have the perfect resumé for the position he took last August as deputy director of Maine Audubon. As a…
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Watch the Video Here AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) is teaming up with a…
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A New Partnership We're excited to share that we've officially partnered with the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development to accelerate and…
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We are proud partners in the Maine Hire-A-Vet Campaign, which seeks to have 100+ Maine employers hire 100+ veterans over a period of…
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We are proud partners in the Maine Hire-A-Vet Campaign, which seeks to have 100+ Maine employers hire 100+ veterans over a period of…
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The Brick Underground Podcast featured us in their latest episode...take a listen to the full podcast below this excerpt: It's only been a…
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Live and Work in Maine is pleased to be partnering with Project>Login to provide students at select Maine colleges and universities the opportunity to…
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Our friends and partners at the Maine Turnpike Authority had a busy Labor Day weekend - nearly a MILLION vehicles passed through the Kittery…
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Mike Alfiero takes seafood business personally. Ask Mike Alfiero about his business, and the first thing he’ll talk about is the family that…
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BY PENELOPE OVERTON One of the first few Mainers who tourists will lay eyes on this summer is Emma Doud, the smiling face…
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BY DUSTIN TURNER ON 07/19/16 With pristine nature, scenic beaches, amazing seafood, quaint New England small towns and beautiful fall foliage, there are…
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By Alanna Schubach For New Yorkers planning their escape from the city, there are a few classic alternatives that offer what weary city-dwellers are seeking—whether…
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WMTW showcases our Visit for a Week, Stay for a Lifetime Campaign:
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Paul Drappi and his employer took two roads to a happy Brunswick Landing. Paul Drappi had a lot of boxes to check off…
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As seen in Maine Magazine's July 2016 Issue By: Philip Conkling Photography: Fred Field University of Maine at Farmington and President Kate Foster…
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As seen in Maine Magazine's July 2016 Issue By: Katy Kelleher Photography: Nicole Wolf Under the leadership of the Maine Island Trail Association,…
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(NEWS CENTER) -- A program in Maine is recruiting people who visit from out of state to relocate here. Live and Work in Maine…
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The state of Maine has launched a business-oriented travel program: they would like you to take your vacation to the eastern state, and…
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Paul Merrill sits down with Nate Wildes to talk about the website liveandworkinmaine.com, a site that profiles employers throughout Maine geared to out-of-state…
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BDN EDITORIAL: It is well documented that Maine needs more people in order to thrive economically. What if a small fraction of the…
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“What if I lived here?” is a dreamy thought that pops into the heads of vacationers everywhere. But if your summer vacation plans…
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Isabel Mullin Makes a Case for Staying in Maine In the age of big data, it’s hard to ignore the numbers. When you…
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There's a catch, of course, but it's an interesting one. Remember the old commercials with the guy who liked the razors so much…
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"Come to Maine for vacation, leave with a job opportunity? That's the hope behind a new job recruiting effort called Live + Work…
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Tourists coming into Maine are usually presented with a variety of suggestions for things to do: spend money at the outlets in Kittery…
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Digital Marketer & Maine native, Jeff Mitchell, knows there’s no place for business like home. There’s an old chestnut that proclaims that the…
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As seen in Maine Magazine's May 2016 Issue By: Sophie Nelson Photography: Matt Cosby Around the World and Home Again David McLain's office…
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Summer is almost here, and we are set to kick off our first ever, Summer "Visit for a Week, Stay for a Lifetime"…
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Yup, you heard that right – all you have to do is work in Maine, and Opportunity Maine will give you a tax…
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Live and Work in Maine Merch & Swag! People who love to live and work in Maine can now wear their heart on…
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Announcing Strategic Partnership with Creative Portland PORTLAND, Maine (March 24, 2016) —Live and Work in Maine (www.liveandworkinmaine.com), an initiative designed to help job seekers…
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Janice Rogers expands on reasons for DC’s broad success' Even though economic opportunities continue to transform Maine, the state’s Yankee roots still run…
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Letter to the Editor: A recent editorial by the Portland Press Herald (“Our View: State’s full employment statistics are nothing to celebrate,” Feb.…
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Jim Darroch found a plum job promoting Maine-grown tomatoes. My grandfather’s funeral featured a score of stories from the family and friends whose…
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Coming from the advertising world in Boston, Sarah Schweppes elevated her career by joining WEX – and at the same time, found a quality of life that Boston simply couldn't offer. Check out her story to see why she's an advocate for living and working in Maine:
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Sherri O’Donnell, Enterprise Architecture Program Director for MMG, found relocating to Presque Isle a moving experience In most other states, a place like…
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When we first launched Live+Work in Maine just a few months ago, we traveled around the state and recorded a number of videos to use as "success stories" (see them here). In no time at all, we started getting questions about when new success stories would be published...so to allow for many more of your stories to be shared, we've created a "Q&A" format. One is for people who want to move to Maine, the other is for people who have already made the choice to make Vacationland work for them. Contribute your own story by clicking here. First up is Nate Wildes – the newest member of the Live+Work in Maine team (and first employee!), hired as Engagement Director. My Maine Story "My name is Nate Wildes, and this is why I Live+Work in Maine" Let's get started: can you tell us your name, where you work and what you do there? My name is Nate Wildes, and I recently joined the Live+Work in Maine…
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PRESS RELEASE LIVE AND WORK IN MAINE HIRES ENGAGEMENT DIRECTOR PORTLAND, Maine —Live and Work in Maine (liveandworkinmaine.com) has hired its first employee, naming Nate Wildes as Engagement Director. This position will focus on building partnerships with employers and promoting engagement with job seekers to ultimately increase the number of people who choose to Live and Work in Maine. Before joining Live and Work in Maine, Wildes was an independent consultant focusing on startups, business development and e-commerce. He previously served as Assistant Brand Manager at Eureka! Ranch International, a Cincinnati, Ohio-based consulting firm that helps organizations transform innovation from a random gamble to a reliable system for growth. The Live and Work in Maine website invites individuals who relocate or return to Maine to post their stories of why they chose Maine, what surprised them about the state, what life is like now that they’re here, and more. “Maine offers a quality of life you just can't beat,” says Nate. “While I live an…
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Portland, Maine Makes Coastal Living Happy 4.4 million readers regularly turn to Coastal Living Magazine for insight on North America’s best beachside towns.…
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By Danielle Waugh, NECN With its beaches, lobster bakes, and ski resorts, Maine draws in millions of vacationers each year. What it’s not drawing in is enough job seekers. “We need to make a concerted effort to get people here,” said Ed McKersie, Founder and President of Portland job recruiting and staffing firm Pro Search. “I feel the state of Maine does a great job marketing itself as a tourist destination, and we don’t have a similar effort to market ourselves as a career destination.” Job recruiters, employers, and politicians speak about Maine’s “brain drain” problem: the trend of young, educated people leaving the state to find employment. There’s also the issue of an aging workforce, and a declining population. McKersie, seeing Maine’s strength in tourism and struggle to find skilled workers, had a thought: what if the state had a job website, that showcased recreation opportunities and the quality of life in each region? About a month ago, he launched the Live + Work…
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Sue Pelletier, VP of HR for MaineHealth, believes the best job benefits come from serving others. Ask Sue Pelletier about the benefits of…
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Discover why people live and work in Maine By Erin Place, Staff Writer PARIS - It only took one beautiful fall afternoon on…
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New worker recruitment website showcases life in Maine By Darren Fishell, BDN Staff PORTLAND, Maine — The 11,000-employee Eastern Maine Healthcare System has a lot of recruiting needs, and that’s likely to continue. “We don’t have enough health care workers in the state to actually fill all of the health care jobs at this time,” Catherine MacLaren, the health care system’s vice president of talent and diversity, said. “And the forecasting is that this will continue to be the case.” MacLaren said managers throughout the system look to surrounding communities before casting a wider net for job openings. Casting that wider net is part of its strategy, and EMHS and many other large employers in Maine have signed onto an effort they hope will make out-of-state recruiting easier. Ed McKersie, founder of recruiting firm ProSearch and of job listing website Jobs in ME, has launched a new website called “Live + Work in Maine.” The site takes a new approach to advertising to job seekers,…
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PORTLAND, Maine (November 17, 2015)—Maine is well known as a top vacation destination, but it is less recognized as an excellent place to launch or continue one’s career. LiveandWorkinMaine.com is a new website designed to engage job seekers from outside Maine, providing information about employment opportunities and Maine’s unsurpassed quality of life. The site will serve as the cornerstone of a community-based marketing and awareness effort designed to promote the Maine employment brand to the national talent market. (more…)
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Our founder, Ed McKersie, really knows how to work a crowd. That talent served him long before he used it to make the…
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The secret got out sometime about a decade ago, it seems, and the rest of the world is now well aware that life is good in Portland, Maine. Here’s a sampling of the wide variety of “Best of” lists that have featured Portland and helped make the city a go-to-there destination for everyone from hipsters to retirees: (more…)
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Patient Safety Improvements Remain Sluggish Nationally, but Maine Hospitals Shine: 2015 Hospital Safety Scores Released Maine Hospitals Receive Highest Percentage of A Grades Nationally Demonstrating Key Strides in Protecting Patients from Errors, Accidents, Injuries and Infections. (more…)
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The state faces an impending worker shortage as its baby boom generation begins to retire, and time
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