CREATE Fellows at Salesforce Tower

Commercial Real Estate Alliance for Tomorrow’s Employees (CREATE) extends a huge thank you to CBRE broker Tara Riefler for hosting a tour of the company’s office space in Salesforce Tower. Students enrolled in both the Fellows program at San Francisco State University and in Fellows Online enjoyed a picture perfect day to view the space, learn about the company and Tara’s experience in brokerage all while enjoying fantastic views of the Bay. This is Tara’s second year instructing the two-part session on Leasing & Marketing.

The tour also provided an opportunity for students from both cohorts to network with one another. Many of these students will graduate this May and are enthusiastically looking for entry-level positions in CRE. Your personal and corporate donations ensure this program remains FREE to students and colleges and delivers career-ready candidates to the commercial real estate industry. Donate today!

CREATE is an alliance of BOMA San Francisco, BOMA Oakland/East Bay, IREM San Francisco, and NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area.

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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