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Weiss called The Goldie Initiative a “golden ticket” to help women gain access to a tight-knit professional network and access to CRE resources.

“For over a year, women have the opportunity to ask as many questions as they have, to absorb information and gain resources that will help them excel in CRE,” Weiss said.

Some women may change career paths either from one industry to another or with a different role in the same industry — something that can be challenging in a down market, Weiss said.

“2026 will be where the real explosion happens,” CRE Recruiting CEO Allison Weiss said. “The pendulum has kind of swung back from being a candidate's market to an employer's market, and I think because of that, there's some downward pressure on compensation. I do see some stagnation as it relates to compensation overall.”

“That's a really perilous kind of choice because Gen Z's percentage of our workforce is just growing every single day,” said Allison Weiss, the founder of CRE Recruiting.

“Gen Z is the most ethnically and racially diverse generation, and so I think from a value standpoint, they're going to value DEI … much more than any other preceding generation,” Weiss said. “They also have really strong convictions towards working for companies that align with their values.”

“There's a buildup of folks who are frustrated and ready to go, but the job market hasn't caught up,”

“The frustration level is pretty high. Companies are doing more with less, budgets are smaller, co-workers who left haven’t been replaced, and many are being called back into the office.”

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“You've definitely had an influx of folks that were maybe early to middle career, and so I think the market has balanced out a bit,”

“There was always kind of an inverse supply-demand situation, which meant that compensation in South Florida was higher than it normally would be in comparison to other major gateway markets,”

“There’s a certain type of broker who has a career goal of becoming a partner and that’s not possible at a lot of these publicly traded firms,”

“These keep people frozen in place,” said Allison Weiss, CEO of CRE Recruiting. “Sometimes that makes you decide that rather than trying to fight your employer, you’re going to leave the industry altogether or go into a different role, or even region, where they can’t enforce it on you.”

"Noncompetes are often confused by companies seeking a way to control their confidential information," Weiss told CoStar News. "Firms working with attorneys can be specific on what is your information and what is company information. Often, a well-structured confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement can help define that."

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“Why don’t I move somewhere else? Or why not take my connections, perhaps rehire my support staff and try and do it for myself.” 

“This has happened a lot in the last several years,”

“There’s a changing of the guard that really needs to occur,” said Allison Weiss, founder and CEO of CRE Recruiting. “I do think that, as an industry, the alarm has been going off for the last 10 years and we're getting older and older.” 

“Over the next handful of years, we're going to see a kind of a tidal wave as you have these folks that were the old guard get replaced by folks who are more digitally native and apt to innovate,” Weiss said. “And that’s a good thing for the industry.”

Allison Weiss, the principal and founder of CRE Recruiting, shares her journey in the commercial real estate industry and her experience as a digital nomad.

She discusses the challenges of moving around frequently as a child and how it shaped her ability to connect with people.

Allison also highlights the need for innovation in the commercial real estate industry and the importance of work-life integration. She shares her passion for helping people navigate their career transitions and create fulfilling lives.

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“If the first two years in the business coincide with a rocky economy, you may just not stick it out,” Weiss said. “Our industry isn’t replacing the junior talent like we are the retirees.”

“I do see marketing teams and budgets being slashed across the country,” CRE Recruiting founder Allison Weiss said. “Companies think that this is one area where they can cut costs and expenditures and not have an immediate impact to their core businesses.”

“I feel like we’re in The Upside Down [of Stranger Things],” Weiss said. She expects the typical burst of hiring that happens at the beginning of the year to be very muted in 2024, as firms maintain a holding pattern. “There’s no real understanding of what it should be like anymore.”

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“Some of the passion, enthusiasm and focus has been lost,” CRE Recruiting founder Allison Weiss said. “And people are so afraid of stepping on a land mine, they’re thinking of other ways of pursuing this that aren’t as risk averse; they look at Budweiser, and public examples of taking a principled stance on diversity.”