Lisbon High JMG students tour Wayfair, SMCC Brunswick campus

LISBON — JMG students at Lisbon High School went on a business tour of call center Wayfair’s Brunswick campus.
Wayfair is an international company with offices in both Brunswick, Brunswick Landing, and in Bangor. Wayfair has had immense growth in their company requiring that they hire new employees with varying education credentials.

Students were impressed by the break-out areas with ping pong tables and a snack wall. The tour brought them through the business and call center areas and training rooms.
The tour culminated with a question and answer period, where employees shared their backgrounds, and described the qualities that make a good employee. A Wayfair employee said that the company has the best work environment they have ever been a part of.
A JMG senior said, “I really felt that it was an open and welcoming place that I could see myself applying to once I graduate.”
JMG students also toured the Southern Maine Community College Midcoast Campus at Brusnwick Landing.
A few highlights were finding out that SMCC offers EMT basic training courses, finding a Career Center in the commons, and seeing the dorms that were once officer quarters back when it was a U.S. Navy base.
JMG has College Success Programs on 10 campuses across the state, including SMCC, which provide important support aimed at ensuring JMG college students are successful in earning degrees.

PHOTO: JMG students from Lisbon High School tour Wayfair’s campus at Brunswick Landing. (Submitted photo)