Rett Daugbjerg '22

Rett Daugbjerg '22: Intern, Jones Lange LaSalle (JLL), Summer 2021

This summer, I had a 10-week internship program with Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) in their Atlanta office. JLL is an international real estate services firm, but I was working with the Capital Markets team which provides investment sales advisory and debt/equity placement for real estate transactions. For the first five weeks, the interns cycled through different asset groups including Land (which involves a lot of the same work as a landman for an exploration & production company), Industrial, Office, Retail, Multifamily, Affordable Housing, and Debt/Equity placement. We spent the last five weeks specializing with an asset type and working on our capstone project, which was a mock buy-side pitch presentation of a previously transacted asset. I was able to work on live transactions and work with full-time analysts and associates every day, which helped me to learn-by-doing much like we do in the geology department.

Although not necessarily geology related, I was able to take technical skills learned in the geology computer lab with me and apply them to the internship. Many cities and counties use GIS to build interactive maps of zoning, ownership, and entitlements. More on the geology side of things: Atlanta is located in the Valley and Ridge and plenty of fascinating outcrops throughout the city.