The sponsoring company in this company profile is Keller Williams Worldwide (“KW”), which is the #1 real estate franchise in the USA, the world’s largest real estate franchise, and the #1 training organization (of any business type) in the world. Each office is independently owned and operated. Russell Bernstein's office is the #1 office in a variety of categories in the entire Southern Region of the United States. Russell is registered as a Commercial Real Estate Agent specifically with the office doing business as KW Commercial 889-9898 & Keller Williams Realty 4550100. The EIN number for this office is in the attachments.
The program administrator for jobs and internships from this company profile is Russell Bernstein. He is an award-winning "business broker". He helps people value, buy, and sell businesses that include the lease or sale of real estate. He is a 2020 CityBusiness MoneyMakers Honoree (because of what his internship program accomplished during the onset of COVID, taking on 60 interns in less than 2 months), a 2019 Economic Development Ambassador for the New Orleans Business Alliance, and the 2018 Rising Star Awardee from the Commercial Investment Division of the New Orleans Association of REALTORS in 2018.
Russell is also a member of the International Business Broker's Association and the Commercial Investment Division of the New Orleans Association of Realtors. He has the Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) designation from the IBBA, and he is one of 500 people in the USA with a CBI, the only one within 50 miles of New Orleans with a CBI, only 1 of 2 within 100 miles with a CBI, and only 1 of 3 in Keller Williams globally with a CBI. He also has an MBA.
In terms of leadership and training experience, Russell has coached at every level from age-group sports to the National team level, and he has this coaching experience on 3 different continents and with players who speak zero English. He has also started 10 non-profit organizations at the local, regional, national, and global level, one with 1500 members nationwide in a foreign country. Also in a foreign country, he was once a Head Teacher for a flagship branch of a national franchise.
As an employer, Russell has hired more than 5 paid employees through handshake since August 2022. As an internship program administrator, Russell runs an internship program with a mission of achieving social impact through fostering the development of Soft Skills in business, the lack of which is the core aspect of the Skills Gap in the USA. Arguably, this internship program was once the largest legally unpaid FLSA-compliant internship program for a for-profit company in the world serving more than 100 interns per year for 3 years in a row. At that time, the internship program was structured like a major corporation, with a intern-directed onboarding, leadership, and training program as well as collaborative interdepartmental and managerial activities among departments like Sales, Marketing, Public Relations, Econometrics, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Recruiting, Operations Analysis, and Valuations. It handled more than 20 interns and up to a capacity of 60 interns working simultaneously at any given time during the year and totaled more than 10,000 intern hours reporting the unique learning experiences of interns each striving to contribute 5-10 hours per week for 120 days. It was a highly diverse environment with interns from more than 50 different universities globally, speaking 1 of 10 languages in addition to English, and a gender-parity ratio near 1:1.
Today, the internship program has been scaled down a lot, with only about 2-4 interns at the same time and only about 10 interns per year, because Russell is now a volunteer business mentor for SCORE Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the SBA.
