HOW DO YOU RATE THE QUALITY OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE COMINGINTO COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE TODAY?

Reviews are decidedly mixed on the quality of youngbrokers going into commercial real estate. Slightly more than athird of respondents (38%) rate the new brokers as acceptable.Coming in just behind, at 36%, are those who think the nextgeneration is terrific. Twenty-six percent view recent graduates asdisappointing. Kim Brennan, managing director of New Jerseyoperations at Cushman & Wakefield, is unreserved in herenthusiasm for young employees at her firm. Here is what she had tosay:

"The young people joining this industry are an impressive group.They have a very good idea of what they want to be and what theirinterests are, and they're well rounded and surprisingly mature. Icompare them to myself at that age and I didn't have the maturitylevel that they do. Most of them also contemplate going foradditional schooling, which I see as the wave of the future. When Ijoined the industry, we didn't really consider continuingeducation, but this generation has a very good idea of what theyneed to do to get where they want to be.