CRE/ Interior Design Career Path [Seeking Advice]
 I am a year out of undergrad (Business Operations) and my first role was a contract role with a company doing workplace research (studying employee interaction with spaces in their building). This is a career path I am interested in pursuing but am not sure of the best path. Ideally, I would want to work for a company's workplace/ real estate team or for a company that consults on these topics. I know I will need some education in design/ RE and am looking at graduate certificate programs. I am not able to commit to the time/ resources needed to go for a full masters but want the base knowledge a certificate would give. If any one knows schools that have good programs I would love to hear about them, so far I have only seen one at Parsons in NY (looking for online). Also, if anyone has advice for other courses or ways to learn more about this space, I would definitely like to hear about them. Thanks in advance
[{"id": "fqjetom", "text": "I do not think that a design degree is an absolute prerequisite for the type of role you have described.  I have interacted with facilities team members with a wide variety of backgrounds - construction, real estate finance, general business, etc.  I would search the websites of large users of real estate (ie large corporations) to see if they include bios for their team members.", "replies": [{"id": "fqnkmq2", "text": "Good to know, appreciate the advice", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "fqnknpx", "text": "Good to know, appreciate the advice", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fqjgf8u", "text": "Project management for corporate real estate arms of the big brokerages is pretty hands on with this stuff.  CBRE, JLL, etc", "replies": [{"id": "fqnkj2c", "text": "I've looked into CBRE and JLL  a little bit, I'll definitely look into them more. Thanks!", "replies": [{"id": "fqnkrmi", "text": "No problem.  I worked on a team years ago that had project managers involved, and they were pretty hands on with design working with the architects and interior designers.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]