Become a Mentor

CREATE’s Mentoring Program

Commercial Real Estate Alliance for Tomorrow’s employees (CREATE) invites you to participate as a mentor to students. We host two formal Mentor Match programs — one for SFSU cohort and one for the online cohort. The events occur in March and follow a speed networking structure. Mentees and mentors are matched and then arrange a series of in-person or online meetings over the course of 8 weeks.

A second option is to participate as an online mentor to students who can not participate in the structured Mentor Match session but wish to be connected with a CRE professional.

We recruit for this effort every fall and the application will be posted here. Check back!

Please direct any questions to CREATE Director Tory Brubaker at info@createworkforce.org.

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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 Bayhill Ventures

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

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

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 Kilroy Realty Corporation

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

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

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

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@Meta