MDF ranks most-sought jobs in state
Registered nurses and retail salespeople are the most-wanted workers in Maine, according to a report from the Maine Development Foundation released Wednesday.
The report covers the first two quarters of the year and will be followed by quarterly job reports based on data culled from thousands of online job listings and social media sites, according to the MDF press release announcing the findings. MDF partnered with John Dorrer, senior adviser for Jobs for the Future and former acting commissioner and director of the Center for Workforce Research and Information for the Maine Department of Labor.
Other top occupations included retail salespeople, direct supervisors of salespeople, wholesale and manufacturing sales workers, and customer service representatives. Also showing up in the top 20 occupations were some higher-wage, more-specialized positions, including software developers, physicians and accountants -- each with several hundred positions advertised in the first half of the year. More than half of the top 20 degrees that Maine employers were looking for were in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
“Understanding the workings of the labor market is essential if we are to effectively guide human capital investments,” said Dorrer. “Today labor markets are complex and dynamic and consequently, require new data and perspectives for analysis. The Maine Development Foundation Jobs Report provides vital data for helping to shape Maine's future.”
MDF is a private, nonpartisan membership organization created by statute in 1978 to pursue sustainable, long-term economic growth for Maine.
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