One Small Email Pt.1
A small boutique firm. Commercial RE. Under 50 employees. West Coast. Over 500MEDIT5B in sales. "Small". Ambitious. Nice. Luxurious.
And one small email.
I am a freshman in college at a non-target undergrad in Texas. Think private, baptist, too many footballs players indicted for rape charges. I am also in Army ROTC but I have yet to be contracted or scholarshipped, so I still pay for school. Murphy's Law has been running a full-speed train through my life lately, until this morning. After reading some motivational quotes, I blindly (jk) sent an email to this investment group's CEO/Founder back in my home state.
There was little there to start with. I had met him prior to this email about six months ago while I was doing door-to-door sales for a small sales business I have during the summers. While he turned down my window sales offers, I turned to go, but intrigued, I turned back. I asked him, what do you do for a living? he responds: Commercial Real Estate, for XYZ Investment Group. ( The door before this day, I had met with a family/friend from an extremely prestigiousCREcompany, you know it) so I started a small discussion with him. At this point, he says the magic words: "If you end up not getting an Internship with ABC, give me a call. By the way, my name is XYZ.
And thats how I met the owner.
So, back to the email I sent him. This morning he responds, and he forwarded me onto his COO, who asked me to give her a call tomorrow at the office. (They also messed up some of the forwarding and CCing, and i caught glimpse of an email including another prospective Intern, so I know I have at least 1 competitor.
If you guys have any advice, criticism (destructive or constructive), help, tips, phone interview advice, please feel free to bombard me with it. I will need it.
I have finally started my dream toCRE.
Comments (4)
知道你的故事。这是最重要的部分f a conversation/interview. It is sets the tone and let's a professional know you if you are serious about an industry and belong. Do not understimate it, especially in real estate interviews where I've found that even some pedigreed instituitional firms don't have standarized interview processes. Fit matters a lot.
Can you expand on "know your story", what do you mean by that?
Think "why real estate" and how you got interested in it and why you want a career in this field. For example, my story to interviewers was about my family construction business and how it sparked an interest in real estate from a young age, and once I got to college I picked up an interest in finance, hence my desire to go intoCRE.
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