Technology Careers and Education Portal

Technology Careers: Occupations and Opportunities

Information, links, and resources to help you understand and investigate current occupations in Maine and the opportunities that will become available in the future.

• Learn about the Top 10 Fastest-Growing Maine IT Occupations - prepare for the future and find out about your best career prospects.
• Find links to Explore Technology Career Options in Eleven Technology Industry Sectors - read Industry Overviews about the most exciting careers in Maine.
• Learn about Maine's Technology Clusters - drill down into the details about Maine's seven technology clusters.
• Maine Employees Are Educated And Skilled - find out why Maine's technology workforce is prepared for jobs in the new economy.
• Technology Career Sectors - find a brief description of each career, employment outlook, wage information, a listing of colleges, training schools and instructional programs for the occupations, and current job opportunity postings from the TechMaine Jobs Board.
• Technology Jobs - the TechMaine Jobs Board will help you find technology jobs in Maine
• Maine's leading technology employers - information about Maine employers' with exciting technology career opportunities.
• Education - TechMaine User Groups are the model for community-based learning - our Communities of Practice approach to education.
• Search through a list of Colleges, Universities, and Technical Training Schools offering programs in Maine. Select a school name from this list to view a school profile, with vital contact information. You can search by degree or program to find the educational institutions that offer specific degree and certification programs in Maine.
• Certifications for a variety of vendor programs including Java and Oracle are highlighted in the portal.

TechMaine's Education Approach: A Blended Learning Process

To provide a complete blended learning experience, TechMaine offers a variety of e-learning tools, resources and programming to keep your skills current:

• TechMaine’s e-Learning Courses. From balancing work and family to project management, and from using a PC to networking in an enterprise environment, our catalog of e-Learning courses supports personal and professional development for virtually anyone.
• TechMaine’s Online Reference Library gives you round-the-clock access to more than a thousand e-books for further research or to broaden the learning experience. Think of it as a personal research library on the Web.
• TechMaine’s User Groups capitalize on the most natural of all learning processes, learning through interactions and relationships in networks of others who are experiencing and working on the same challenges and tasks.
• TechMaine’s Forums connect you with others in the community sharing your passion for technology.
• TechMaine’s Business Skills Videos offer scenario-based streaming video instruction that builds your core business competencies.
• TechMaine’s Education Portal points to the educational facilities that offer traditional instructor-led-training and technology-related degrees.
• TechMaine’s Roadmaps will take you to the next level in your success.
• The TechMaine Reference Library contains hundreds of new titles (real books) on technology topics. TechMaine members are welcome to check out books. Non-members may browse the library during regular business hours.
• Browse through our extensive list of Free Magazines, White Papers, Downloads, and Podcasts to find the titles that best match your skills and interests; topics range in the hundreds.

Top 10 Fastest-Growing Maine IT Occupations

Explore Technology Career Options in these Industry Sectors

• Advanced Manufacturing Careers - Industry Overview
• Aerospace Careers - Industry Overview
• Biotechnology Careers - Industry Overview
• Business Careers - Industry Overview
• Energy Careers - Industry Overview
• Financial Services Careers - Industry Overview
• Geospatial Technology Careers - Industry Overview
• Health Care Careers - Industry Overview
• Homeland Security Careers - Industry Overview
• Information Technology Careers - Industry Overview
• Nanotechnology Careers - Industry Overview

Learn More about Maine's Technology Clusters

• Biotechnology
• Composites & Advanced Materials
• Environmental Technologies
• Forest Products & Agriculture
• Information Technology
• Marine Technology & Aquaculture
• Precision Manufacturing

Maine Employees Are Educated And Skilled.

• According to national standards, 83 percent of Maine's workforce is skilled. High school or post-secondary degrees are held by 83 percent of the job seekers registered for work.
• Cumberland County, Maine's largest, with a population greater than 265,000, ranks significantly higher than the national average for Bachelor’s, Master’s, Professional and Doctorate degree attainment and college enrollment.
• Maine students are committed to seeking higher education and typically over 60 percent pursue post-secondary education each year.
• Maine was the first state in the country to have every school and library -- nearly 1,200 facilities -- linked by an advanced telecommunications technology called Frame Relay.
• Maine offers a comprehensive workforce development system for employers seeking to expand or locate in Maine or upgrade worker skills to remain globally competitive. When businesses in Maine need a new skill set among its workers, TechMaine, Maine's technical schools, colleges and universities work closely to provide the needed training and education.
• The largest concentration of activity is in Cumberland County in southern Maine, anchored by Portland, the state’s largest city. More than fifty percent of the technology workforce is employed in Cumberland County where more than forty percent of the companies are located. The technology companies are attracted by Cumberland County’s well educated workforce. York County, Maine’s second largest and fastest growing county is positioned in the seacoast region between Portland and Massachusetts, has attracted many start-ups and is home to a number of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) manufacturers and life science businesses. There are also clusters in Penobscot County, where firms have located around the University of Maine, and Kennebec County, home of Maine's capital - Augusta.