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S P R I N G 2 0 2 1 / W O R K F O R M E 3 Copyright 2021. All rights reserved. Mainebiz® (ISSN# 1530-0749) is published bi-weekly 29 times a year, including special issues published in July, September, October and December by New England Business Media LLC. Periodicals postage paid (USPS# 018-715) at Port land, ME and at additional entry points. Postmaster: Please send changes to: Mainebiz, PO Box 330, Congers, NY 10920-0330. Annual subscriptions are available for $60.00 and include Fact Book and Book of Lists. To subscribe, please visit our website at www.mainebiz.biz, email mainebiz@cambeywest.com or call our circulation department at 845-267-3008. Mainebiz® accepts no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts and in general does not return them to the sender. P U B L I S H E R : Peter Stanton E D I TO R : Peter Van Allen D I G I TA L E D I TO R : William Hall S E N I O R W R I T E R S : Renee Cordes, Maureen Milliken, Laurie Schreiber C O N T R I B U T I N G W R I T E R : Catie Joyce Bulay R E S E A R C H D I R E C TO R : Timothy Doyle R E S E A R C H A S S I S TA N T: Heide Martin A D V E R T I S I N G S A L E S D I R E C TO R : Andrea Tetzlaff S E N I O R A C C O U N T M A N A G E R S : Ken Hanson, Betsy VanderPloeg A C C O U N T M A N A G E R : Bonnie Dougherty M A R K E T I N G / O P E R AT I O N S D I R E C TO R : Alison Nason D I R E C TO R O F AU D I E N C E D E V E LO P M E N T: Valerie Clark A division of New England Business Media LLC C E O / G R O U P P U B L I S H E R : Peter Stanton P R E S I D E N T: Tom Curtin C F O / C O O : Mary Rogers D I G I TA L D I R E C TO R : Jan Holder A R T D I R E C TO R : Matt Selva H O S P I TA L I T Y E M E R I T U S : Zoey C o n t e n t s WORK FOR ME WAS MADE I N PA R T N E R S H I P W I T H 7 Construction / Trades 19 Financial Services 25 Health Care 33 Hospitality / Retail 38 Manufacturing 47 Technology 51 Wage / Employment Data B U S I N E S S S E C T O R S 12 Electrical JATC 13 Gnome Landscape, Design & Masonry 14 Hancock Lumber Co. 15 IBEW Local 567 & 1253 16 Interstate Electrical Services Corp. 17 Johnson and Jordan Mechanical contractors 28 MaineGeneral 29 Martin's Point Health Care 30 Puritan Medical Products Co. LLC 39 AVX Tantalum 40 FMI, A Spirit AeroSystems Co. 41 Harvey Performance Co. 42 Southworth International Group 43 VELUX Greenwood LLC S P O N S O R E D P R O F I L E S 4 Maine Department of Labor Commissioner Laura Fortman 4 Manufacturers Association of Maine Executive Director Lisa G. Martin 5 Mainebiz Editor Peter Van Allen L E T T E R S 18 Write a cover letter that gets attention 24 Kick start your career with 5 networking skills 32 The workers we need are right in front of us 50 Q&A with Holly Lancaster C O L U M N S Jesse Souza, executive chef at Front & Main, set to make his mark in Waterville. P H O T O / G A B E S O U Z A Congolese native Chris Mbalazamo, a teller at C Port Credit Union's Riverside branch in Portland, is a graduate of Portland Adult Education's New Mainer Teller Training Program. P H O T O / C O U R T E S Y O F J A M E S R . S A L O M O N 20 34

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