Finally Landed a Role!!!!

Just wanted to share this with you all since you have been a huge resource and as inspiration to those looking.

After starting to seriously apply in February, I have finally landed a role as an analyst at a local brokerage.

For context, I have 0 years of experience in CRE and am currently a client service associate at a financial advising firm…aka not much experience to directly translate.

What I did do was network a TON. Connect with any local CRE leader that will accept your invite on LinkedIn and ask them all to coffee/lunch to share any advice they have for you. 60-70% of them will not respond but that is ok. The ones that do are usually very genuinely nice and want to see young people succeed. Ask everyone you meet with if they would be willing to connect you with someone in the industry who they think would be a good person to talk with (This part really helps build great connections).

I also took the real estate financial modeling boot camp by Justin Kivel of Break in to CRE and put it on my resume. I started to receive a lot more serious responses to my application after I had completed that.

Lastly don’t give up! I know the job market right now is awful but there are opportunities out there.

Use this platform as a resource as well for questions you have!

Best of luck monkeys.