RETS Associates Answers Demand for Real Estate Employment Placements
RETS names Carol Cranfield Managing Director of growing San Francisco office & experiences strong job growth in real estate markets.
- San Francisco, CA (1888PressRelease) March 26, 2012 - RETS Associates, the premier commercial real estate recruitment and staffing firm on the West Coast, announced today that Carol Cranfield has joined the firm as the new managing director of the San Francisco Bay Area office.
Carol is recognized as a top leader in her field with over 20 years of experience in the executive search and placement staffing field, with a specialty in the commercial and corporate real estate industries. In her role, Carol manages the portfolio of business in the RETS San Francisco practice and will be instrumental in expanding the business platform in that market, while also supporting the Southern California RETS team.
"Carol's addition to our team is a strategic move driven by the increasing activity in real estate employment searches for all position levels experienced by RETS in 2011 and at the jump start in 2012," said Kent Elliott, president and founder of RETS Associates. "Carol's proven skills and unique strategic approach to recruitment and staffing assignments will be instrumental in expanding our existing services in San Francisco."
RETS specializes in the recruitment and staffing and placement of interim, permanent and executive positions in the commercial real estate and financial services industries. Last year, RETS posted an 83% increase in job orders over 2010 totals (363 vs. 198), including an increasing number of executive placements of C-level positions. Geographically, 50 percent of the searches were concentrated in Southern California, 30 percent in Northern California and 20 percent outside of the California.
"We have been actively engaged in numerous new searches since the third quarter of 2011 and we anticipate this trend to continue," said Jana Turner, principal at RETS Associates. "We are seeing an uptick in hiring in almost every sector in real estate and this validates our strategy to utilize Carol's expertise in meeting the ongoing demand of our client's needs."
About Carol Cranfield
Carol has over 20 years of experience in the commercial real estate executive search and placement field. Before joining RETS Associates, Carol was the founder and president of The Cranfield Corporation for 17 years, an executive search firm based in the Bay Area specializing in staffing positions in both commercial and corporate real estate. Prior to founding The Cranfield Corporation, Carol served as a hands-on senior vice president for a national executive search firm specializing in commercial real estate.
About RETS Associates
Founded in 2002 by Kent Elliott and Christopher Lee and joined in 2008 by former CBRE Group Inc. executive and industry leader Jana Turner, RETS Associates is the West Coast's premier firm specializing in the recruitment and staffing and placement of interim, permanent and executive positions in the commercial real estate and financial services industries. RETS Associates' clients include REITs, developers, investors, pension fund advisors, operating companies and real estate services firms doing business in property management, facilities management, corporate services, and brokerage sales and leasing. For more information on RETS Associates, please visit www.retsusa.com.
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