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Paid Commercial Real Estate Virtual Internship Opportunity with Project Destined (Fall Semester)

Posted: 07 Jun 2022 08:24 AM PDT

Interested Candidates can apply here.

Deadline: July 15th

Project Destined, founded by a former Carlyle Group executive, has partnered with 100+ leading real estate firms and 70+ universities around the country to provide diverse students with internship opportunities to explore ownership through live real estate deals. The 10-week Paid, Virtual Internship Program will launch in 30+ U.S. and International markets in Fall 2022 with an incredible group of partners including CBRE, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, JLL, Greystar, Hines, Eastdil Secured, Brookfield Properties, PGIM Real Estate, among others (see list of selected partners below).

As part of the program, interns will work 6 to 8 hours per week including real estate training, an Executive Speaker Series, and competing with students from 70+ universities in "Shark Tank" style live deal pitch competitions.

Students will have the opportunity to:

Get partnered with one of our 60+ Sponsoring Companies in fields including investment banking, private equity, asset management, and property management.
Get access to our network of over 450+ corporate mentors from leading firms.
Earn a stipend of $500 and a chance to win an additional $1,000 from weekly competitions.
Supplement your existing internship or academic scheduling.

Please sign up here to join an Open House and read this article to learn more.

Paid Research Assistant Position Available with UMD ECON

Posted: 06 Jun 2022 10:06 AM PDT

Michael A. Navarrete is conducting research that shows that unemployment insurance (UI) systems that ran on an antiquated programming language, COBOL, experienced longer delays in UI benefit disbursement. When considering the first six months after the emergency declaration on March 13, 2020, these delays led to a relative decline in aggregate consumption of 4.4 percentage points in COBOL states relative to non-COBOL states. The usage of COBOL directly accounted for part of the delay in COBOL states. However, it is possible that a UI benefit system that uses COBOL is also more likely to have poor UI infrastructure. UI infrastructure is how a UI benefit system is run such as the programming language used, password reset policies, mobile compatible version, and the availability of other languages. COBOL usage is one component of UI infrastructure.

He is asking for an undergraduate student at the University of Maryland to help gather data on the UI infrastructure status of each state. Specifically, this would entail the student going online to each UI benefit website such as the Maryland Department of Labor Division of Unemployment Insurance website. The student could start filling out a claim and see if the website allows for a mobile version of the application portal, if there is a secondary language for the website, and conditional on there being a secondary language recording the secondary language. The student will not submit a claim.

This would help the current research project on COBOL-induced delays. However, this information could be used in future work on how Black and Hispanic unemployed individuals could be less likely to file for UI benefits than White unemployed individuals given that these groups are less likely to have a laptop or personal computer.

The task would take about 45 minutes per states for all 50 states and Washington DC. The research assistant would be paid $15 an hour and would take around 10 hours a week and finish the job within a month of starting.

To apply, send your resume to Michael at mnav@umd.edu.

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