CREATEing Connections at Menlo College Real Estate Club

Menlo Real Estate Club hosted a property management panel on April 25 which featured two industry professionals involved with Three students from Menlo College are currently participating in Fellows Online and they utilized their industry connections developed through CREATE to secure panelists. BOMA Oakland/East Bay’s Karissa Obeso (seated 3rd from left) with CBRE hosted a building tour for the online fellows at her property at 2100 Franklin in Oakland. BOMA San Francisco’s Tawni Sullivan (seated 4th from left), JNT Solutions, serves as CREATE’s board chair and instructs 2 sessions including communications and teambuilding/problem solving.

The panel addressed the topics of careers in commercial property management, challenges in property management, handling and limiting liability, working with contractors and managing tenant relationships. Thank you to Menlo College and Menlo Real Estate Club for collaborating with CREATE. And thank you Karissa and Tawni for sharing their industry experience with the next generation of CRE professionals.

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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

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 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

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Glenn Good, Glenn Good Group

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

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

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

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Cameron Newcomb, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2021, employed by JLL

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