Where to find Analyst roles
Where is the best place to find analyst roles and actually get interviews with no prior CRE experience? LinkedIn and SelectLeaders is where I've been looking primarily, however interviews for me have been tough to come by. Damn near everything I look at on SelectLeaders says 1-2+ years prior experience in CRE and on LinkedIn the markets I'd like to get into are insanely saturated with 200-300+ other apps within a couple of hours posting so it's hard for me to stick out when I don't have prior experience in the space.
Should I still be applying to analyst roles that say 1-2+ years experience on SelectLeaders even though I don't have that experience in CRE? Can anyone share advice on where they'd look/what else I can do to distinguish myself and have better luck at breaking into the industry? I would like to get into brokerage, asset management, acquisitions, or originations if I can.
Thanks for all input in advance.
Use selectleaders to reach out to someone on linkedin
By this do you mean find the firm on LinkedIn and try and reach out to someone working there? Any position specifically or just someone in the market the job posting is for?
There is no great shortcut to find analyst roles. Some companies post their jobs everywhere; others never make a public posting. For me when I was applying out of undergrad(nontarget/0 RE on campus recruiting) a couple years ago, I would just go down the lists of the largest firms, go to their websites and look. It is cumbersome but you will notice there are a lot of jobs on firms' websites that are not on job boards. From there you can also go down a Linkedin rabbit hole and try to source firms by just seeing where other people started their career. Without knowing your situation, I am not sure what would make you stick out on you resume. In general, the obvious answer is to network.
Thanks for the reply; admittedly networking is something I could be doing much more of but its difficult when I'm in a smaller town not near any of the markets I'd ideally like to move to. Obviously finding alumni working for firms I'd like to work at and reaching out there could be a good start..? What else besides joining ULI or NAIOP would you recommend? Cold messaging on LinkedIn or is that a no? Would it be appropriate to ask my old professors for their advice (I am a year out of undergrad though)
Also, is the REPE 100 and the RE Debt 50 a good place to start for going down a list of firms or would these be pretty much impossible to get a role at with no prior experience? What is another source you can recommend where I can simply see reputable firms where I'd learn a lot and gain reps to start my career?
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