Become a Mentor

CREATE’s Mentoring Program

CREATE’s mentoring program is a key element to the success and future of the San Francisco Bay Area commercial real estate industry. We rely on the experience and motivation of professionals who have made a career out of commercial real estate to mentor incoming professionals.

CREATE is only as successful as the current industry leaders who can submit the time, energy, focus, and dedication to guiding our future San Francisco Bay Area commercial real estate industry experts. Providing fundamental skills and guiding students, you are helping to secure the future of your current career.

We all began our careers as novices, and whether your career has expanded a decade, a few years, or a lifetime, CREATE can benefit from your expertise.

Spend as little as an hour or more a week giving valuable advice, feedback and answering questions as a mentor or as a guest speaker. Your expertise as someone who works daily in the commercial real estate arena will go a long way in preparing tomorrow’s commercial real estate employees.

Providing a Reciprocal Relationship

CREATE provides an opportunity for a win-win relationship between companies that need some extra assistance and students who need on-the-job training. When you find yourself in need of help, spending valuable time, energy, and bandwidth to vet the right fit for your company isn’t always an easy task.

That’s where CREATE can be of assistance. CREATE pairs you and your company with an eager-to-learn student whose background in commercial real estate matches your needs. Our students are industry-ready and depend on you to provide them opportunities for life outside the classroom.

Working closely with our students and offering them hands-on, real life experiences allows you the chance to develop relationships with potential full-time employees and simultaneously prepares them for the workforce.

Interested in volunteering your time toward growing San Francisco’s commercial real estate future? CONTACT US! Your support will go a long way for both you and our job-ready candidates. Your success is their success, and our students may be your future employees.

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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

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 BXP

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

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

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 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

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, 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 CBRE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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