We continue to hear about lengths companies go to find qualified employees.At the Mainebiz “Five on the Future” panel, which was moderated by Jeff Fuhrer, senior policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the theme of hiring kept coming back into the discussion.“All I think about is workforce,” panelist Joshua Broder, CEO of […]
We continue to hear about lengths companies go to find qualified employees.
At the Mainebiz “Five on the Future” panel, which was moderated by Jeff Fuhrer, senior policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the theme of hiring kept coming back into the discussion.
“All I think about is workforce,” panelist Joshua Broder, CEO of Portland-based Tilson Technology, said, only somewhat in jest. Tilson, which was named as one of Mainebiz's fastest-growing runners up last year, will move its 200 employees to a new site at 16 Middle St. in November and plans to hire 100 people in the next 18 months.
Tilson is looking for a range of employees, from software developers for the IT business to people with civil construction skills for the telecom side.
“We need people who can show on time, work hard and be adaptable,” Tilson said. “But we also need people with critical analytic skills. We need people who can apply education and rigor around critical thinking.”
Heard on Main Street
Another sign the boating industry is coming back: East Coast Yacht Sales in Yarmouth opened its sixth brokerage, at Front Street Shipyard in Belfast. Front Street has transformed the Belfast waterfront and is building and refurbishing some substantial yachts, including some over 100 feet. John Knowles, owner of East Coast Yacht Sales, founded the company in 1986 in Yarmouth. In addition to Belfast and Yarmouth, it has sales offices in Camden; Salem, Mass.; Portsmouth, R.I.; and Stonington, Conn.