e-Business/e-Commerce Jobs and MBA Programs in Maine

Maine has an abundance of educational and career opportunities for e-commerce retailers. In Maine, there are currently 990 jobs for e-commerce retailers and national projections show the job pool increasing by seven percent over the next 10 years. In general, e-commerce retailers plan, direct, or coordinate retail activities of businesses operating online.

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State figures show that e-commerce retailers in Maine earn $34 per hour or $71,000 per year on average. In the U.S. as a whole, their income is $46 hourly or $95,000 per year on average.

Nicknamed the Pine Tree State, Maine is home to 1,318,301 people. It has seen its population grow by 3.4 percent over the last 10 years. The capital is Augusta. There were 840,874 total jobs in 2008 and workers in Maine earned more than the previous year with an average annual income of $36,368, up from $35,028. The unemployment rate in Maine was 8.0 percent in 2009. It went up by 2.7 percentage points since the previous year. The number of residents with a college degree is 22.9 percent. This falls short of the national average.

In Maine, the top employers are in paper manufacturing, paperboard mills, direct selling establishments and fuel dealers.

While being known for many things, one of the most noteworthy, The White Mountain National Forest covers nearly 800,000 acres. The forest covers a landscape ranging from hardwood forests to the largest alpine area east of the Rocky Mountains. One of the unique tidbits about Maine is in Wilton there's a cannery that imports and cans only dandelion greens.

e-Business/e-Commerce

E-commerce retailers plan, direct, or coordinate retail activities of businesses operating online.

While working, they calculate purchase subtotals, taxes and shipping costs for submission to customers and receive and process payments from customers using electronic transaction services.

They are required to manage and maintain budgets and other financial resources. Also, they must think through complex problems and develop a critical analysis of the situation and possible solutions.

E-commerce retailers should be able to articulate ideas and problems and be creative and generate new ideas.

In order to be successful in the workplace, e-commerce retailers must be able to deal with stress and deal with situations calmly and believe in an agile approach to problem solving and deal with change.