Leadership Jobs and MBA Programs in Maine

Maine is a good place to settle for operating officers as there are many educational and career opportunities. At 690, the number of jobs in Maine for operating officers is projected to drop six percent to 850 jobs by 2016. This is a more dramatic decline than the national projection, which shows the job pool falling at one percent over the next 10 years for operating officers. In general, operating officers recognize and create policies for the overall direction of companies or private and public sector organizations.

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State figures show that operating officers in Maine earn $64 per hour or $132,000 per year on average. In the U.S. as a whole, their income is $77 hourly or $160,000 per year on average.

Nicknamed the Pine Tree State, Maine has a population of 1,318,301. It has grown by 3.4 percent in the last 10 years. Augusta is the state capital. 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 is below the national average.

Paper manufacturing, paperboard mills, direct selling establishments and fuel dealers are the top employing fields in Maine.

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.

Leadership

Operating officers recognize and create policies for the overall direction of companies or private and public sector organizations.

They regularly present data at meetings or conventions to promote services and accomplish objectives and direct business or departmental efforts concerned with the production or distribution of products.

They are required to evaluate and judge the efficacy of solutions and manage and maintain budgets and other financial resources.

Operating officers should be able to think through problems and come up with general rules and piece together evidence to, in some sense, diagnose what is going on in a situation.

In order to be successful in the workplace, operating officers must have exceptional integrity and want to innovate to meet new challenges.