Mentor/Mentee of the Year Announced!

CREATE Careers Committee wrapped up its annual Mentor Match on May 8. Mentors, mentees, members of the CREATE Careers Committee and its Board celebrated a successful 8-week mentoring session which exposed participating students to an increased awareness of the CRE industry.

Congratulations to the 2024 Mentor of the Year, Anne Hill with Lincoln Property Company and 2024 Mentee of the Year, Hope Dang, a CREATE Fellow finishing her 3rd year at SF State.

Thank you to all the mentors for contributing their time and enthusiasm to this results-driven career development opportunity. Your participation makes a difference in the lives of so many students. And best of luck to the mentees, some who will graduate this month, and some who will graduate at year-end or spring 2025. Historically, over 50% of participants in this program have secured entry-level positions in the industry within the following 1-9 months depending on date of graduation.

Thanks to Rockhill Management, Inc. for use of their beautiful meeting center at 275 Battery Street.

If you are interested in future mentoring opportunities and participating in this results-driven program in person, contact Tory Brubaker at info@createworkforce.org.

Keep on looking to CREATE for a talent pipeline because that right there brings so much value to your company.
Christine Mann, Rockhill Management

The CREATE program gave me that framework to understand how a building operates that I wouldn't have been able to learn without time in the industry.
Marco McCartney, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2021, employed by JLL

I’ve been so impressed with the quality of interns our company has sourced through CREATE's training program; we’ve now hired several of them as full-time employees!
Rick Buziak, Swift Real Estate Partners

It's hard to come up with something that would make CREATE better. I truly believe they give you everything you need to get the most out of the program.
Cameron Newcomb, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2021, employed by JLL

We're on the right track with this program. It's fantastic.
Linda Foster, LPC RiverRock

We’re not only training a CRE workforce through our partnership with CREATE; we’re highlighting commercial real estate as a career alternative in a highly complex, technology focused Bay Area.
Sandra Boyle, Cushman & Wakefield

CREATE's commercial real estate fellows classes support our industry’s growing employment needs.
Tawni Sullivan, Board Chair, Consultant, JNT Solutions

How much have we contributed to the companies that we've worked with? A little donation is trivial compared to what we contribute to these companies.
Cameron Maharaj, CREATE CRE Certificate Holder, JLL

If you're not involved in this you are missing a great opportunity. Get involved, participate, contribute.
Glenn Good, Glenn Good Group

The amount of success I've had through CREATE has been incredible. The network that I built through the CREATE program created the pathway to my new position.
Kaitlyn Klinger, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2020

Our biggest asset in commercial real estate is our people. Bringing in students from diverse backgrounds will help us ask the right questions and evolve our business to provide an even better product for our clients.
Mark Kelly, ABM

The CREATE program prepared me for the job and then also through their job board I was able to find a job.
Jered Baker, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2020, employed by Swift Real Estate Partners

The best way to get an employee that's eager and hungry to learn more is definitely through the CREATE program.
Amy La, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2021, Employed by JLL

CREATE completely surpassed all of my expectations. Everything I was able to learn in CREATE I'm actually able to put to work everyday. It's not just property management, its leasing, its design and more.
Alexis Escaranio, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2021, employed by Resource Commercial Real Estate