Internships years after graduating?

Question

Is it possible to get an internship in Commercial Real Estate even if I graduated college 2 years ago? I'm looking to transition from a marketing analyst position to an investment analyst position at a CRE brokerage, and although my skills are transferable in a lot of ways, I'm finding it difficult to get any interviews.

Is it completely unheard of to seek internships to get some "official" experience under my belt to help get the attention of recruiters?

redever · Accepted Answer

In general, this is absolutely a strategy I would recommend and is becoming much more common (sadly, for the wrong reason of firms being hesitant to hire...). There is no rule that says an "intern" means in school. You can be immediately post-grad or even way post grad, many firms do use "interns" as essentially temp workers.

CRE · Answer

Hah, I love reading this, SouthEastAnalyst, because it is the exact path I took.

After a year of brokerage and a year of "asset" management, I applied to graduate school. Once I got in, being young and thinking I was doing the right thing, I told my employer. I was promptly canned. Needing a job for a couple months, I cold emailed as many people as I could and found a family office that let me come on as an intern.

It was one of the best things that ever happened to my career.

+54	Talking about deal experience in an interview	9	1d
+25	Rotational Program: Exit Early or Continue?	6	1d
+24	Underwriting Predevelopment Costs	5	11h
+21	Underwriting three small bay industrial deals in SW Florida: 6 cap vs 7 cap, absolute NNN with a PG, and the one we walked on	1	3d
+20	Full Court Shot	10	1d
+18	Carreer shift to repe from construction management	3	14h
+17	What's an Undergrad to Do?	3	30m
+16	Job after RE Masters Degree \ Seeking advice	6	1d
+12	Automated Real Estate Modelling	2	1d
+10	Full-Time RE Acquisitions Analyst Recruiting - Class of 2028	2	7h

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