This year our team has facilitated a total of six webinars with companies that were in the midst of hiring their new intern, analyst, and associate classes and learned multiple real estate hiring lessons. These companies ranged from publicly traded brokerage companies world-renowned real estate private equity and development companies to newly minted companies that […]
A.CRE will be on the road and hosting events in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City in the next month and we’d love to connect in person with all of you in these cities. We will be hosting some happy hours and the drinks are on us! Come spend an evening with Michael […]
Recently, our team partnered with the Graduate Real Estate Council at Cornell University where we worked with their students in providing mock interviews with Cornell alumni. Our goal in this effort was to help these students at the beginning of the school year prepare themselves to nail their next commercial real estate interview with nothing […]
Building your network is a proactive way to gain an advantage in the hiring process and to hedge against uncertainty when you are struggling to find a job. This article is part of our LinkedIn 101 networking series, aimed at providing you with the best LinkedIn networking tips to help you find a job in […]
Our goal with this article is to help real estate hiring managers receive higher-quality applicants interested in their positions. With the A.CRE Accelerator, our team has trained over 3,000 real estate candidates to be great at real estate financial modeling. And, in this article, we’ll tell you what we’ve learned over time about what attracts […]
Our goal with this post is to help you use LinkedIn most effectively in your job search. It’s the first post in a series of a LinkedIn 101 networking series to help you get the most out of this resource. Because commercial real estate is such a relationship-driven business, this strategy will help you to […]
In this Day in the Life of a Commercial Real Estate Professional post, we hear from Daniel Greenblum, a capital markets Associate at a real estate loan broker, Lev Capital. Daniel has been kind enough to share his typical daily routine and discuss what it takes to land a successful career in CRE Capital Markets. […]
For you job candidates who are international CRE students and want to get a job in the U.S. in the industry, here are my three biggest tips to help you find success: Set Specific Goals for Yourself Network Persistently Don’t Lose Confidence Michael Godfrey, a graduate of the A.CRE Accelerator, and someone who successfully landed […]
Marquette University recently held its 11th annual Real Estate Strategies Conference. Our Co-Founder, Spencer Burton, had the privilege of being the Keynote speaker so a few members of our team came up to support him. A quote from Jack Welch, Founder of General Electric, came up that was powerful, which went along with some main […]
In this ‘Day in the Life of a Commercial Real Estate Professional’ post, we hear from Ian Hawk, Associate at a real estate mortgage lending company, Dwight Mortgage Trust in New York City. Ian has been kind enough to share his typical daily routine and discuss what it takes to land a successful career in […]
As a CRE recruiter, I often get questions from people who are unhappy in their current job. This is a very common situation for people to have – in both commercial real estate and in other fields. However, I want to let you know that this isn’t an inescapable problem. I’ve given advice to countless […]
Are you questioning what’s on your commercial real estate resume? Don’t overlook the tip I discuss below to help land the interview. The goal of your resume is to get an interview. So, if you are sending a bunch of resumes out, but not receiving interview requests, keep reading. Before getting into the post I’ll […]
Here’s the status quo for most college students. You find yourself balancing a social life, 12+ hours of school, extracurricular activities, athletics, jobs, unexpected life curveballs, and parents’ high expectations for you. For those of you who want to gain a unique advantage in your post-college real estate job search amidst all of this, keep […]
Most of you sending in a blind application never do find your way into this business because you get tired of rejection, lose hope, and quit. A big thank you to the candidate I spoke to last week who asked me about this topic. He was frustrated with how many applications and jobs he’s applied […]
Without investing time and money into finding a career in CRE, you don’t have a commitment, you have a wish. In this article, I’m going to touch on two core tenets needed to transition into CRE: knowledge and relationships. I want to thank an A.CRE reader for asking me to write about this topic. It’s […]