Maximize the Value of References
Maximize the value of your references to improve your job search. Vary your reference types to provide the hiring manager a rich view of what type of employee you are.
ICSC Webinar: Next Steps for Job Seekers
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented amount of uncertainty in today’s job market. Furloughed and laid-off development, leasing and marketing executives are polishing up resumes, dusting off deal sheets and updating their LinkedIn profiles.
How Job Seekers Can Stand Out in Today’s Market
It is hard to believe that in early March we were experiencing one of tightest job markets in recent memory. In today’s market, however, the supply of good candidates is starting to outpace demand. With this in mind, here are four key actions to help job seekers stand out as attractive candidates.
How to Execute a Job Search While Sheltering in Place
How to execute a job search from home is a tough question to answer since the number of companies hiring right now is reduced, particularly within the shopping center industry. Our advice for job searching while sheltering in place is to build your network as much as you possibly can.
Importance of Recruiter-Candidate Confidentiality
What steps does Poline Associates take to ensure confidentiality? Both Poline’s clients and candidates require confidential communications at times, but this post focuses on confidentiality concerns from the candidate's perspective.
Managing Expectations as We Work from Home
So much of Poline & Associates’ business (and life in general) revolves around managing expectations. In fact, part of the value proposition in hiring a search firm is that the firm facilitates communication between a company and the candidates under consideration. When a hiring representative…
Always Available to Your Clients? How to Set Boundaries
How to set boundaries. This is an issue I've grappled with throughout my professional career. And it's only been heightened by working from home these past several weeks. Always Available? In my current role as a commercial real estate recruiter and during my time as…
Tips on Creating a Stand-Out Deal Sheet
If you are unfortunately facing a furlough or layoff and are on the leasing or sales side of the commercial real estate business, consider the following FAQs to help you update your Deal Sheet: Q: Is a Deal Sheet necessary? A: YES! A Deal Sheet quantifies the kind of…
Job Searching? Update Your Resume
If you have been furloughed or laid off, what is the first thing you should do to position yourself for your next role? Our advice is to update your resume. Our team reviews hundreds of resumes a week. Here are a few tips to help…
Identify Your Strengths
Before embarking on the job search journey, invest time to identify your strengths and understand how they can guide your desired career path.
Where Are All the Good Candidates? How to Build a Team in a Tight Market
Editor’s Note: It is difficult to believe that this blog on the tight job market was posted March 18, 2020. Please read this blog as a historical marker, demonstrating just how quickly the U.S. job market has unraveled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Amidst one…
CONNECTIONS: Q&A with Rachel Elias Wein, Founder & CEO, WeinPlus
Beginnings Where did you start your real estate career? I was recruited out of grad school to work at EY in their Advisory and Transaction Real Estate practices. It was a fantastic training ground with a global team. Name one person that has been influential in…
Employee Engagement = Retention + Leadership
Our last blog focused on employee recognition and how it can improve retention, which we know from last year’s Millennial blog series is a major focus of many commercial real estate firms. Also tied closely to employee recognition is employee engagement. Data shows employers who…
Employee Recognition: It’s Important
Simply put, employee recognition improves company culture, thus improving recruitment and retention. And who doesn’t want that? Especially in a climate where “38% of millennials polled would like to see their company recognition program improved.” Commercial Real Estate firms, among others, are taking note and…
Millennial Series: Experienced Job Hoppers?
This is the final blog in our 5-part Millennial Series focused on recruiting, retaining and promoting Millennial professionals. We’ve learned so far that Millennials seek purpose + innovation from a team-oriented employer who provides shared learning and professional development opportunities. In addition, they also gravitate…
Gender Gains: Why CRE Needs to Prioritize Diversity
Greater Gender Diversity = Greater Profits Hot off the presses, Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) just released a white paper exploring women’s role and impact in the traditionally male-dominated field of commercial real estate. “Accelerating the Advancement of Women in Commercial Real Estate” is the…
Millennial Series: Work-Life Balance + Flexibility
Thus far, the blogs in our 5-part Millennial Series focused on best practices related to recruiting, retaining and promoting Millennials. We now know that Millennials are motivated by purposeful work + innovative environment and best perform for a team-oriented employer who invests in shared learning.…
Millennials Series: Professional Development + Leadership
Millennials are the largest living generation and the fastest growing workforce segment, so you need to know how to attract and retain them. In this series, we’ve discussed how this generation seeks purpose + desires innovation in the workplace and is described as being team-oriented…
Millennials Series: Team Work + Shared Learning
In the first blog of this Millennial series, we attempted to define the Millennials and investigated how this largest living generation and fastest growing workforce segment seek purpose and desire innovation. Next up is focusing on how Millennials are team-oriented and driven by shared learning.…
Social Proof Drives Retail: The Amazon 4-Star Store
Technology impacts retail in ways we could have never imagined. As this trend continues to grow, shift and develop, new concepts emerge and move through testing, weeding out amazing ideas from those that merely look good on paper. Scot Wingo, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of…