Career Coach Silicon Valley · Tech Resume Writing Silicon Valley pays in equity. Most people never price it.
An option grant means nothing without the strike, the valuation behind it, the shares outstanding, the exercise window, and where you sit in the preference stack. Plenty of grants end up worth nothing, which is normal rather than scandalous. Before any of that, the panel is reading for what shipped and what changed, not for what you were responsible for. Every document is built by a firm founded by a hiring executive with 2,500 placement decisions behind him.
Serving the valley and the peninsula: San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Cupertino, Campbell, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Milpitas, Fremont, Redwood City, San Mateo, Foster City, Belmont, Morgan Hill, and Gilroy. Delivered virtually.
Two questions.
One price.
Answer both and we name your package, the price, and everything included.
Who is this for?
Step 1 of 2Which describes you?
Step 2 of 2Where do you need the help?
Step 2 of 2How many people each quarter?
Step 2 of 2- ATS resume, editable DOCX and PDF
- Tailored cover letter
- Match report against your target role
- 30 days of unlimited edits
- Delivered in 3 to 4 business days
- Everything in Resume & Cover Letter
- Full LinkedIn profile rewrite
- Recruiter keyword architecture
- 30 days of unlimited edits
- Delivered in 3 to 4 business days
- Everything above, at executive scope
- Professional bio for boards and introductions
- Three resume versions, one per target role
- 45-minute strategy call with our founder
- 60 days of unlimited edits
- Full document set included
- Two recorded coaching sessions
- Answers built on the Before I Started Method
- Mock interview and debrief
- 60-day interview guarantee
- Everything in Interview Ready
- Six coaching sessions across 90 days
- Search strategy and networking plan
- Weekly job leads for 90 days
- 60-day interview guarantee
- Everything in Full Job Search, with Executive Portfolio documents
- Ten coaching sessions across six months
- Compensation and salary negotiation strategy
- Weekly job leads for six months
- 60 days of unlimited edits
- Five transition seats per quarter
- Full document set for each person
- 45-minute individual strategy call
- Weekly group coaching for 90 days
- 12-month term, quarterly billing
- Fifteen transition seats per quarter
- Everything in Partner 5
- One named HR contact, one intake form
- Three-business-day onboarding
- Day-60 utilization report each quarter
- Thirty transition seats per quarter
- Everything in Partner 15
- Quarterly workshop for the team that stays
- Priority scheduling on every intake
- Executive seats from the same pool
Career coaching and resume writing, for an equity market.
Legacy Careers LLC provides technology resume writing and career coaching to professionals in Silicon Valley. The firm produces ATS-ready resumes, cover letters, match reports, LinkedIn profiles, and professional bios, and coaches clients through interviews, search strategy, networking, and equity and offer negotiation, with impact-based positioning as a core competency. Documents run $149 to $749 and coaching programs run $549 to $2,497, with a $25 resume audit as the entry point. The work targets the employers actually hiring across the valley and the peninsula: the semiconductor and hardware companies through Santa Clara and San Jose, the software and platform employers along the 101 corridor, the artificial intelligence and venture-backed startups drawing most of the region\'s current capital, the venture firms and the law and accounting practices serving them, the biotech, medical device, and health systems around Stanford and the peninsula, and the electric vehicle and advanced manufacturing base out toward Fremont. Across completed engagements 87% of clients accept an offer, in 58 days on average, against an industry norm of 120 to 180 days. The bar every file clears was written on the hiring side across 2,500 placement decisions.
The firm is based in Houston and every engagement runs virtually. That changes nothing about the local work: the target list, the employer landscape, and the vocabulary in your documents are Bay Area specific, and here that means writing to impact rather than to responsibility, and pricing an offer rather than accepting a headline. Deliverables and prices sit on resume writing services, session detail on career coaching programs, and employer seat pools on corporate outplacement.
Four Silicon Valley situations. One of them is you.
Each one names the package and the price. The finder above reaches the same place in two taps.
I have nothing to put on a resume yet.
I have an offer with options and no idea what they are worth.
I can do the job. My documents do not say so.
I am not paying to guess again.
Letting people go instead of looking? Corporate outplacement is priced by the seat, from $650.
Who actually hires in Silicon Valley, and what each one reads for.
Six landscapes, and they disagree sharply about what a good resume looks like. Your document belongs to one of them, written the way that one reads.
Semiconductors and hardware
Chip design, process and equipment, networking, storage, and the systems companies built on top of them, concentrated through Santa Clara, San Jose, and Milpitas. Panels read for the specific node, architecture, tool, or protocol you worked on, tape-outs or products shipped, and depth over breadth. This sector has the longest tenures in the region and the most patient hiring, and it is currently absorbing enormous demand from the artificial intelligence buildout. Fabless design, foundry relationships, verification, physical design, advanced packaging, and firmware are all separate hiring pools that outsiders treat as one, and applying across them with a single document is the most common error engineers make here.
Software and platforms
The large platform companies and their engineering, product, design, sales, and operations organisations, spread along the 101 corridor from Mountain View down through San Jose. These employers hire against internal level definitions and read resumes for scope and consequence rather than for responsibility. Competition for every posting is national, so a page that reads as competent rather than as specific loses quietly. These employers also run the most structured processes in the country: a recruiter screen, a technical screen, and a full onsite with separate signals collected on coding, system design, and behaviour, then reviewed by people who never met you. The document gets you to the first call and the process decides the rest.
Artificial intelligence and venture-backed startups
Where most of the region\'s current capital and hiring energy sits: model and infrastructure companies, applied artificial intelligence, developer tooling, and the seed and growth-stage layer around them. Panels here read for what you shipped and how fast, and for whether you can operate without process. Compensation is heavily weighted toward options whose eventual value is genuinely uncertain, which makes offer evaluation a real skill. Hiring is fast and unstructured by comparison with the platform companies, often three conversations and a decision, and the bar is whether you can build without being told how. Candidates arriving from large employers are frequently rejected here for looking process-dependent rather than for lacking ability.
Venture capital and professional services
The venture firms along the peninsula, plus the startup law practices, accounting firms, executive search, and advisory businesses built to serve them. Small teams, quiet hiring, and heavy reliance on referral. This is also the part of the region where a portfolio of relationships is the qualification, and where postings understate the real market by the widest margin. Operating roles inside portfolio companies, platform and talent functions at the funds themselves, and the finance and legal work behind the deals are all reachable from adjacent industries, but almost never through an application form.
Biotech, medical devices, and health
A major university health system, medical device manufacturers through Sunnyvale and Santa Clara, diagnostics, digital health, and the biotech corridor running up the peninsula. Panels read for regulated environment experience, design controls and quality systems, submissions and trials, and clinical or engineering depth. It is the most stable sector in a region where everything else moves with the funding cycle. It is also the most credential-driven, which makes it the natural landing place for technically strong people who want out of the platform hiring machinery without leaving the peninsula.
Electric vehicles and advanced manufacturing
Vehicle assembly and battery work out toward Fremont, contract manufacturers, aerospace and satellite engineering, and the hardware supply base serving all of it. This sector reads far more like manufacturing than like software: rate, yield, quality systems, supplier management, and safety. It is also the most willing part of the region to take strong operations people from other industries. Panels here read a software resume with suspicion and a manufacturing one with relief, which is the reverse of every other district in the valley and worth knowing before you write a single line.
What Silicon Valley pays for, and how to price an option grant.
No salary table appears here. California already requires a range on the posting, and in this region the range is frequently the least interesting part of the offer. Six things decide what you can credibly ask for, and what the offer is actually worth.
Your range is not a number you look up. It is a number you build from the roles you are actually pursuing, and then defend in a room with someone who already knows what the job is worth.
The range comes from your target list
It is assembled from your actual targets rather than looked up. The roles you are chasing, the level they genuinely sit at, and the employers you named. In this region that final point carries unusual weight: a public platform company, a semiconductor manufacturer, a seed-stage startup, and a medical device company pay in four different currencies for the same nominal title.
Built per clientAn option grant is a bet with a price on it
Ask the strike price, the most recent preferred valuation, the total shares outstanding so you can work out what percentage you actually hold, the vesting schedule and cliff, and how long you have to exercise if you leave. That last one has ended more equity stories than any other. Plenty of grants are eventually worth nothing, which is a normal outcome. Price it as a bet you are choosing to take rather than as deferred salary you have been promised.
The whole offerThe expectations question comes early
Even with a posted range, the recruiter asks, and here the answer interacts with the level they are considering you at. Naming a number above the band for that level gets you re-levelled down rather than paid up. At a startup the same question is really about how much cash you need against how much equity you want, which is a different negotiation entirely and worth preparing for separately.
Coaching · before the screenCost of living cuts both ways
This is the most expensive housing market in the country and California taxes income at the top of the national range, both of which the compensation here is built to absorb. What that means practically is that a headline number which looks extraordinary from outside the region is often ordinary inside it. If you are being recruited in from elsewhere, model take-home against actual local costs before the number does your thinking for you.
Relocation · both directionsThe cycle sets the leverage
Capital concentration moves faster here than anywhere. Artificial intelligence is absorbing most of the current funding and hiring while other categories stay restrained, and the semiconductor demand behind it is running hot. Public company hiring follows earnings and restructuring. Biotech and medical devices follow their own regulatory and funding clocks. Knowing which wave your target sits on tells you whether to push now or reposition.
Timing · honestlyThe document sets the ceiling
The band is largely settled before anyone speaks to you, and here that decision is a level. A resume written as a list of responsibilities gets read one level below the work it describes, and the equity component moves with the level rather than in a straight line, which means the gap compounds over four years rather than appearing once on a paystub.
Where it really startsNo salary figures are published on this page. Employers here already post a range, and the part that decides the outcome is equity, which depends on the grant, the strike, the valuation, and the level you are placed at rather than on any regional average.
See coaching programsWhere the jobs actually sit, and what that costs you.
Eight hiring districts along fifty miles of peninsula and two freeways that do not forgive you at peak. Which stretch you can reach every morning decides more of your search than your experience does.
Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Sand Hill
Venture capital, startup law, deep technology, and a research university with an enormous footprint. Small firms, short hiring chains, and an economy that runs almost entirely on introductions. This is the part of the region where who has seen you work matters more than any application you will ever submit. Compensation skews toward equity and carry rather than salary, and the roles are frequently unposted, so the search here is a networking exercise with documents attached rather than the reverse.
Mountain View and Sunnyvale
Large platform engineering campuses, aerospace and satellite work near the federal airfield, medical devices, and a dense startup layer. Well served by rail down the peninsula and gridlocked in every other direction at peak. Levelling and structured interviewing are the norm at the large employers and set the bar for everyone else nearby. Caltrain and the corporate shuttle network genuinely widen who can work here, which is worth knowing if you live in the city and assumed the peninsula was closed to you.
Santa Clara and north San Jose
Semiconductors, networking, storage, and the equipment and materials companies behind them. The technical depth here is the deepest in the region and the tenures are the longest. Hiring is slower and more deliberate than on the software side, and a resume that lists tools without depth is dismissed immediately. Interviews here lean technical and specific rather than behavioural, and the people asking the questions will have done the exact work, which rewards precision and punishes anything approximate.
Cupertino and the west valley
One very large employer and the supplier, contractor, and services orbit that has formed around it, spreading through Campbell, Los Gatos, and Saratoga. Hiring here is unusually secretive by regional standards, and much of the work cannot be described in detail, which makes how you write around it a genuine skill. The supplier and contractor layer around it is a large employer in its own right and a far more open door than the campus itself, and it is routinely ignored by candidates fixated on the logo.
Downtown and south San Jose
Enterprise technology, city and county government, a state university, and a growing startup and services base. The most affordable major employment district in the valley and the best connected to the south and east, which is why competition here is rising faster than the posting volume suggests. Employers here skew toward enterprise software, public sector technology, and services, and they hire with less levelling machinery than the campuses to the north, which makes the process shorter and the documents matter more.
Fremont and Milpitas
Vehicle and battery manufacturing, contract manufacturing, hardware assembly, and the industrial base that supports the region\'s physical products. This reads as a manufacturing labour market rather than a software one, and it is consistently underapplied for by candidates whose search stops at the bay. Shift work is standard across the plants and pay reflects it with differentials that a base-salary comparison misses entirely, and hiring moves faster here than anywhere else in the region.
Redwood City, San Mateo, and Foster City
Enterprise software, financial technology, gaming, biotech, and corporate offices spread up the peninsula. It sits between the valley and the city, which makes it the compromise location for households where one person works in San Francisco, and consequently more competitive than its size implies. It is also the district where valley and city hiring cultures meet, and the two read resumes differently enough that it is worth deciding which one you are actually applying to.
Morgan Hill, Gilroy, and south county
Manufacturing, distribution, agriculture technology, and the commuter population that traded a long drive for a house. Employers here are smaller and quieter, and for anyone living south it is a far better radius than the valley proper. The inbound commute is the whole decision, and it is worth making deliberately. The trade people rarely price is that a ninety-minute drive each way costs roughly a working month a year, which is worth putting against the housing difference before you decide the move was obvious.
Tell us the radius you will actually drive and the target list gets built inside it. A list full of roles you would decline is not a search, it is a way to feel busy while nothing moves.
How a Bay Area panel reads you.
Five things that are true here specifically, in the order they hit your application.
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The system reads you before a person does.
The large employers here screen at volume and the competition for every posting is national rather than local. What fails is mechanical rather than a judgement about you: layouts that scramble on parse, headings a parser does not recognise, dates read as blank, and keyword coverage that does not match the posting. Nobody tells you it happened. The more useful fact is that at most of the large employers here the application queue is not the real front door anyway: referrals enter through a separate pipeline that gets read by a person, and one former colleague submitting you is worth more than forty applications that were parsed and scored.
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Shipped work is the credential that counts.
Degrees and certifications carry less weight here than in almost any market in the country, and what replaces them is evidence of things that exist because of you. Products in production, systems handling real load, tape-outs, papers, patents, repositories, revenue closed. Name the thing, name the scale it ran at, and name what changed. A page describing responsibilities in a region that hires on artifacts is a page nobody finishes. The same test applies at every level: an engineer names the system and its load, a manager names what the team shipped and how the org changed, and a salesperson names the logo and the number. Seniority raises the scale of the artifact, never removes the requirement for one.
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Recency is being read, whether or not anyone says so.
Experienced candidates here are not screened out for their years, they are screened out because the page reads as dated: old stacks listed first, twenty years of roles given equal weight, and the most recent work buried on page two. Lead with the last five to seven years in depth, compress everything earlier into a short summary, and put what shipped most recently in the first third. That is a document fix, and it works. It matters more here than elsewhere because the technology moves fast enough that a stack listed in the wrong order genuinely signals distance from current work. What does not help is hiding dates or trimming your history into incoherence, which reads as evasion and invites the exact suspicion you were trying to avoid.
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Credentials and clearance are applied before the read.
Where credentials do matter here they matter absolutely: a clinical licence, a PE stamp, a quality or regulatory certification in medical devices, a security clearance at the aerospace employers, or a specific safety qualification in manufacturing. Each belongs where a scanner catches it in the first ten seconds, with status and dates. Outside those sectors, spend the same space on what you shipped instead. Work authorisation is also a live screening question across this region and worth stating plainly if you hold status that requires no sponsorship, because leaving it unaddressed on a page full of international experience invites a guess rather than a question.
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The strongest channel is people who saw you work.
Across venture, startups, and the smaller employers on the peninsula, a large share of roles are filled from a shortlist of people someone already trusts, and the public posting is a formality. That is not a reason to stop applying. It is a reason to spend half your effort on former colleagues, and to make your documents easy for them to forward, because the forward is what actually gets read. A resume built for a referral is a slightly different object: it has to survive being skimmed by someone deciding whether to spend their own credibility on you, which means the first six lines carry all of the weight.
Gate five
Six packages.
Every price published.
Three document packages and three coaching programs, all built for one Silicon Valley target role. Nothing here requires a call, and every price on this page is the price you pay.
Resume & Cover Letter
Applying across the valley and hearing nothing back.
Mid-career writing runs $350 to $700 elsewhere.
- ATS resume, editable DOCX and PDF
- Tailored cover letter
- Match report against your target role
- 30 days of unlimited edits
- Delivered in 3 to 4 business days
Resume, Cover Letter & LinkedIn
Recruiters should find you before the role is posted.
The same scope elsewhere starts around $500.
- Everything in Resume & Cover Letter
- Full LinkedIn profile rewrite
- Recruiter keyword architecture
- 30 days of unlimited edits
- Delivered in 3 to 4 business days
Executive Portfolio
Staff, Principal, Director, or VP in the Bay Area.
Executive packages elsewhere open above $1,000.
- Everything above, at executive scope
- Professional bio for boards and introductions
- Three resume versions, one per target role
- 45-minute strategy call with our founder
- 60 days of unlimited edits
Interview Ready
You reach the onsite. Then it stops there.
Four-session starters open around $600 elsewhere.
- Full document set included
- Two recorded coaching sessions
- Answers built on the Before I Started Method
- Mock interview and debrief
- 60-day interview guarantee
Full Job Search
Negotiating an equity offer, alone.
Comparable packages run $1,500 to $3,500.
- Everything in Interview Ready
- Six coaching sessions across 90 days
- Search strategy and networking plan
- Weekly job leads for 90 days
- 60-day interview guarantee
Executive Job Search
The seat is negotiated, not applied for.
Executive engagements run $5,000 to $15,000.
- Everything in Full Job Search, with Executive Portfolio documents
- Ten coaching sessions across six months
- Compensation and salary negotiation strategy
- Weekly job leads for six months
- 60 days of unlimited edits
Not sure which one, and not ready to guess?
Send the resume you are using now. A hiring executive reads it and returns a written PDF breakdown within 24 business hours: where a Bay Area manager would place you, whether you answer the problem they are hiring for, and your fixes in priority order. The $25 comes off whatever you buy next.
Every deliverable, in one table.
Scroll it sideways on a phone. Nothing is hidden and nothing is added at checkout.
| Deliverable | Resume & Cover Letter$149 |
Resume, CL & LinkedIn$299 |
Executive Portfolio$749 |
Interview Ready$549 |
Full Job Search$1,197 |
Executive Job Search$2,497 |
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| Documents | ||||||
| ATS resume | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cover letter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Match report | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| LinkedIn profile rewrite | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Professional bio | – | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ |
| Resume versions by target role | – | – | up to 3 | – | – | up to 3 |
| Coaching | ||||||
| Strategy call | – | – | 45 min | – | included | included |
| One-to-one coaching sessions | – | – | – | 2 | 6 | 10 |
| Interview prep, Before I Started Method | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Search strategy and networking | – | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Salary negotiation coaching | – | – | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Weekly job leads | – | – | – | – | 90 days | 6 months |
| Support | ||||||
| Unlimited edits window | 30 days | 30 days | 60 days | 30 days | 30 days | 60 days |
| 60-day interview guarantee | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Program length | 3–4 days | 3–4 days | 3 days | 2 weeks | 90 days | 6 months |
| $149 | $299 | $749 | $549 | $1,197 | $2,497 | |
Every package includes 30 days of unlimited edits, 60 on the executive tiers, with no revision count and no per-round charge. Every coaching program carries the 60-day interview guarantee. Employers buying for staff should start on corporate outplacement instead, priced by the seat.
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See all nine packagesEveryone says they write better resumes.
Here is what better looks like in Silicon Valley.
A Bay Area panel settles one question faster than anywhere else in the country: what exists differently because this person was there? Titles, tenure, and responsibilities do not answer it. Shipped work, scale, and a measurable change do. Every bullet gets rebuilt around that single test.
Senior software engineer responsible for developing and maintaining backend services, participating in code reviews and on-call rotation.
Platform Engineering: Owned the service handling checkout traffic at peak, cutting p99 latency by half through a caching and query redesign, and led the migration off the legacy datastore without a customer-visible incident.
Why it works. Developing and maintaining services describes attendance and appears on every engineering resume in the region. Naming the service, the traffic it carried, a specific latency outcome, and a migration completed without incident answers the only question a hiring panel here is asking: what exists differently because this person was there.
Program manager working with suppliers and internal teams to support new product introduction for semiconductor components.
New Product Introduction: Drove two devices from tape-out through qualification and volume ramp, holding the schedule through a substrate supply shortage by dual-sourcing ahead of the constraint and closing yield excursions with the fab before they reached the customer.
Why it works. Working with suppliers to support NPI could describe a coordinator. Tape-out through qualification and ramp, a named supply constraint solved before it bit, and yield excursions closed with the fab are the specifics that place this candidate as someone who has actually carried silicon to production, which is the only version worth hiring in Santa Clara.
Enterprise account executive responsible for managing a territory, building pipeline, and exceeding quota through consultative selling.
Enterprise Sales: Carried a new-logo quota into the financial services vertical, closing three seven-figure multi-year agreements in eighteen months and finishing above plan in a year the segment shrank, with two accounts expanding at renewal.
Why it works. Exceeding quota through consultative selling is on every sales resume ever written and proves nothing. New logo versus expansion, deal size and term, a vertical named, performance against a shrinking segment, and renewals that grew are the five facts a sales leader screens on, because together they show the wins were repeatable rather than lucky.
Every rewrite above is built from facts the candidate already had. Nothing is invented, because the person interviewing you here almost certainly does the same work and will take the claim apart in one follow-up question. That is also the reason the specific version is safer than the vague one: a precise claim you can defend for ten minutes beats a broad one that collapses in ninety seconds.
Get my $25 auditTen questions, answered for Silicon Valley.
Cost, speed, coverage across the peninsula, and the questions an equity market asks that salaried ones never do.
Do you meet clients in person in Silicon Valley?
No. Every engagement runs virtually, which suits a region where a fifteen-mile drive up the peninsula can take an hour. The standard is identical whether you are in Palo Alto, San Jose, Fremont, or San Mateo. What is local is the target list, the employer landscape, and the vocabulary your documents are written in.
Does a Silicon Valley resume actually need to be different?
The framework holds everywhere. What changes here is that panels read for impact rather than for responsibility, and they read fast. A semiconductor company, a platform employer, a seed-stage startup, and a medical device manufacturer want four different things, but all four are asking what shipped, what it changed, and what you owned rather than contributed to.
How do I value a startup offer with options in it?
Carefully, and with more questions than most people ask. An option grant means little without the strike price, the current preferred valuation, the total shares outstanding, the vesting and cliff, the exercise window if you leave, and where you sit in the preference stack. Plenty of grants end up worth nothing, which is a normal outcome rather than a scandal. Price it as a bet with a known cost and an unknown payout, then decide.
I have twenty years of experience. Is that working against me here?
Sometimes, and pretending otherwise does not help you. What panels here actually react to is recency: whether the technologies, scale, and problems on your page are current. That is a document problem more than a career problem. Lead with the last five to seven years in depth, summarise earlier roles briefly, and make sure what shipped most recently is the first thing anyone reads.
What does it cost, and how fast do I get it?
The $25 resume audit is the entry point and comes back as a written PDF inside 24 business hours. Documents are $149, $299, and $749. Coaching is $549, $1,197, and $2,497. Standard build is 3 to 5 business days and expedited is 1 to 2. Klarna and Afterpay are available at checkout on all of it.
Which areas do you cover?
The valley and the peninsula: San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Cupertino, Campbell, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Milpitas, Fremont, Redwood City, San Mateo, Foster City, Belmont, Morgan Hill, and Gilroy. Plenty of people here also work in San Francisco, so tell us whether the city is genuinely on your list and the target list gets built accordingly.
How do I work out what to ask for here?
California requires a pay scale on the posting, so start there and then work out what the equity is actually worth, because at most employers here it decides the outcome. At a public company that means grant size, vesting, and refresh policy. At a startup it means strike, valuation, dilution, and exercise terms. Two offers with the same headline can be worth very different amounts, and almost nobody models it before saying yes.
Who actually writes my documents?
A Legacy Careers writer working to a written standard rather than to taste, and nothing is released until someone who has genuinely made hiring decisions has read it against that standard. The firm operates from Houston, works with Bay Area clients virtually, and was founded by an executive with 12+ years on the hiring side and 2,500+ placement calls behind him.
Is there a guarantee?
On every coaching program. Send 25 relevant applications inside sixty days without landing an interview and the work continues at no additional cost until interviews arrive. Document packages carry an edit window instead: 30 days on the standard tiers, 60 on the executive tier, with no revision count and no charge per round.
We are cutting roles in the Bay Area. Do you handle the employer side?
Yes, priced separately. Employers hold a quarterly pool of transition seats from $650 a seat and refer people into it as needed. Anyone referred is working with a career expert inside three business days, and a utilization report arrives each quarter. The full economics are published on the outplacement page.
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Legacy Careers LLC provides technology resume writing and career coaching services to professionals in Silicon Valley and in all 50 states. Bay Area clients come from the semiconductor, networking, and hardware companies through Santa Clara and San Jose, from the software and platform employers along the peninsula, from the artificial intelligence and venture-backed startups absorbing most of the region\'s current capital, from the venture firms and the law and accounting practices serving them, from the biotech, medical device, and health employers around Stanford, and from the electric vehicle and advanced manufacturing base toward Fremont. Impact-based positioning and equity valuation are core focuses. Documents are ATS-ready and written for one target role at one kind of employer, with a match report naming the titles a background genuinely reaches. Packages run $149 to $749, coaching $549 to $2,497, and the $25 audit returns a written PDF within 24 business hours.
Coverage spans the valley and the peninsula. Two things make a search here unlike anywhere else. Panels read for what exists differently because you were there, which means responsibilities on a page are effectively invisible and shipped work with a number attached is the whole argument. And most of what an offer is worth arrives as equity whose value is genuinely uncertain, so the negotiation is a valuation exercise rather than a haggle over salary. The documents get built against a standard set on the hiring side across 2,500 placement decisions, and applied before anything is released.
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