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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 […]

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 […]

The “Perfect Candidate” Might Be Costing You Great Hires

In today’s commercial real estate hiring market, companies can afford to be selective. But there’s a difference between being selective and searching for someone who may not actually exist. We’re seeing increasingly specific wish lists: the right asset class, exact years of experience, experience at a certain type of firm, the right software, local market […]

Employers Are Optimistic. Job Seekers Aren’t. Here’s Why the Job Market Feels So Broken

At the end of 2025, there were nearly 1 million more unemployed people than available jobs. Not counting the pandemic, it’s the biggest gap since 2017. Unsurprisingly, it’s fueling a level of uncertainty many workers haven’t experienced before. “I’ve been doing this work for 33 years, and this is the most volatile and unpredictable job […]

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