Help Students Launch Their Commercial Real Estate Careers

College Students are Ready to Intern and Assist You. Industry partnership with San Francisco State University provides workforce-ready talent

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The Bay Area commercial real estate industry’s internship program continues to deliver the talent that employers want: job-ready candidates from a lauded university training program.

Thanks to the foresight of real estate industry leaders, an alliance with San Francisco State University, College of Business that began in 2012, now produces well-prepared interns interested in careers in commercial real estate.

SFSU’s Certificate in Commercial Real Estate program was created by industry leaders and continues to offer industry specific training to SFSU students plus scholarships, mentorships, and internships.

Please follow our Internship Host Guidelines to provide the most meaningful internship program.

Our third annual intern selection process is underway.

The intern selection process is designed to provide a quality experience for both the intern and the internship host. It requires an application from the student, reviewed by an industry leader, and then selectively places the applicant with the appropriate internship host company. Interested employers are asked to describe the structure of the internship, e.g., pay, hours, experience provided, and, once that information is collected, the employers are offered up to three students to choose from.

If you are Interested in hosting an intern, please email info@createworkforce.org or call 415.362.2662 x117.

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

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

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 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, employed by VTS

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 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