About CREATE

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The Commercial Real Estate Alliance for Tomorrow’s Employees (CREATE) educates a diverse workforce and connects career-ready candidates to employers in the Commercial Real Estate (CRE) industry.

Since 2011, CREATE has educated hundreds of students from San Francisco State University and Merritt College, both of which are recognized as having among the most diverse student populations in the nation. Approximately 30% of these students have been hired directly into the industry upon graduation. CREATE’s signature program is the 16-module, 32-hour Fellows curriculum facilitated by industry subject matter experts. Student Fellows learn the fundamentals of the industry and about the career opportunities in commercial real estate. The experience is enhanced by mentoring, job shadowing, building tours, internships and networking as well as the free career portal that connects students with employers offering internships and entry-level jobs.

CREATE is an alliance of the following associations:

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CREATE supports the needs of the commercial real estate industry by:

Training and career ready candidates who are prepared to make a difference
Saving employers time and money on talent recruitment
Collaborating with employers to provide internships, job shadowing, and job opportunities to our students and graduates
Providing college-level instruction and courses of study directly related to careers in commercial real estate
Creating outreach opportunities to diverse student populations
Mentoring students

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The return on investment is definitely ten-fold. You get a lot of students who are passionate, eager, workforce ready.
Kimberly Aviles, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2021, employed by Cushman & Wakefield

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

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, Boston Properties

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, interned at Rockhill Management

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 CBRE

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 Cushman & Wakefield

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

I was able to learn and have a heads up because of the CREATE program. This really was the golden ticket.
Anne Chung, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2021, employed by CBRE

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

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, Able Services

CREATE's commercial real estate fellows classes support our industry’s growing employment needs.
Tawni Sullivan, Alexandria Real Estate Equities

I would think that any forward thinking employer would want to invest in the CREATE program because it produces a group of dedicated individuals who could be their future employee.
Sam Hoyle, CREATE CRE Certificate Holder, Columbia Property Trust

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 RiverRock Real Estate Group

I'm so grateful to the CREATE program for teaching me everything I know to be successful in my job.
Lanie Randrup, 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

CREATE's real estate classes are developing “job ready” employees ready to make a difference in our industry.
Stanley Roualdes, Shorenstein

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

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

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