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How to Get a Job if You’re Overqualified

1. Focus on how you can help the employer Many experienced workers find it tough […]

The 10 Deadly Sins of Talent Management

1. Fail to make a team of “A” players a priority 2. Pay below market […]

Interviewing in the commercial real estate world

Originally published in the San Diego Daily Transcript on May 15, 2015. San Diego Daily […]

Building High Performance Teams Takes More Than Talent

As a leader, you may be tempted to hire an individual, or keep him in […]

Ace the Top 50 Interview Questions

Employers want to make sure that you have the right skill set, and are the […]

Introducing Building Careers, LLC

Southern California welcomes Building Careers, LLC, the only independent commercial real estate focused recruiting firm […]

How to maintain work-life balance after stepping into a senior role

The promotion you worked so hard for may come with a cost nobody warned you about: the always-on expectation. For many workers, achieving work-life balance as a senior leader is harder than it was before getting elevated. According to Glassdoor’s burnout research, mentions of burnout in employee reviews rose 65% year over year in the […]

Why Great Employees Leave Good Companies

Losing a top-performing employee can be frustrating, particularly when your company offers competitive compensation, a positive culture, and a supportive leadership team. Yet even strong organizations experience turnover, and the reasons behind an employee’s departure aren’t always obvious. In commercial real estate, we’ve seen talented professionals leave companies they genuinely respect, not because they’re unhappy, […]

7 job search mistakes that make recruiters quietly pass you by

After years of climbing the corporate ladder, you’d think a job search gets easier with experience, but that’s not totally true. Our recent “Ask a Recruiter Live” episode tackled that misconception with Amy Miller, who has spent 25 years recruiting inside companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon and now leads Talent and People Ops at […]

How to Read a Job Posting’s Salary Range and Where You Land

You open a listing and see the salary range: $65,000 to $95,000. That’s a $30,000 spread, right? But nothing on the page tells you where you’d land in it.  Ranges like this aren’t random. They follow real rules, and once you know what’s driving them, you can read them the way a recruiter does instead […]

AI Skills to Put on Your Résumé in 2026 & How to List Them

I recently sat down to help a friend fix a résumé that hadn’t received a response from recruiters for eight months. She was running marketing at a mid-size software company, and she used Claude and ChatGPT almost every day for tasks like writing the first drafts for campaign briefs, cleaning up messy spreadsheet exports, and […]

What Are You Really Optimizing for in Your Next Role?

When we ask candidates what they’re looking for in their next opportunity, the initial answer is often some version of the same thing: More growth. Better compensation. A great company. Interesting work. More flexibility. Of course, we’d all like all of those things. But when an actual opportunity comes along, the decision becomes much more […]

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