Breaking into the commercial real estate industry

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Hi all,

My name is Luke Miller, and I am a junior at the University of Iowa majoring in finance with an entrepreneurial management certificate. I am looking for advice on how to break into the CRE industry, looking for an internship in the industry this coming summer. My GPA is 3.11/4.00, I have recently joined a real estate club on campus, am in a stock investing club, as well as have previous mortgage internship experience. I am proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.

I have cold emailed around 30 firms and formally applied to around 20 positions, getting some responses and setting up interviews in March. However, I have not received a lot of feedback. Does anyone have any tips on things I can do to get my foot in the door or boost my resume to meet the criteria for positions in this industry? Any feedback or tips would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Matt Keit]

I'm a construction project manager and we have one developer in our office.  They run really lean in the CR & IC area so its going to be tough just jumping right in unless you have connections.  All the developers that I know typically have real estate license which is very simple now days and you can do it online in probably 3-4 wks and then just take the test at a testing agency.  If you can afford it your best luck is going to try and get a unpaid internship if you really only want to do the development side.