Des Moines Career Coach.
Built for America’s Most Underestimated Financial Services Capital — Where Principal Financial, Nationwide, and Wells Fargo Set a World-Class Standard.
Des Moines is the insurance and financial services capital of the Midwest — and one of the most consequential financial services markets in America that almost no national career coaching service has ever been built to serve. Principal Financial Group’s global headquarters is here. Nationwide Insurance’s massive Iowa operations. EMC Insurance. Wells Fargo’s significant Midwest hub. Iowa Farm Bureau Financial Services. Ranked top 10 for jobs and earning potential in 2025 by Checkr. The employers are world-class. The career coaching has never matched them.
Legacy Careers LLC · 2,500+ placed · 87% placement rate · 58-day avg. to offer
Principal Financial Group’s hiring managers evaluate retirement plan administration, investment management, and insurance professionals for the specific defined contribution plan design language, institutional asset management performance metrics, and group benefits administration depth that a Fortune 500 global financial services company managing $700+ billion in assets under management demands — and generic financial services resumes don’t enter their evaluation competitively at any career level. Nationwide Insurance evaluates actuarial, underwriting, and claims professionals for the specific property and casualty insurance, commercial lines book of business, and agricultural insurance language that one of America’s largest insurance and financial services organizations demands from its Des Moines workforce. Wells Fargo’s Iowa hub evaluates commercial banking, mortgage, and financial advisory professionals for the specific middle-market commercial banking and community banking culture language that their Midwest operations represent within a Top 4 US bank. Three world-class financial services employers — three completely different hiring languages — and almost no Des Moines career coach built to speak any of them at their actual national evaluation standard.
Des Moines Is a Tier-One Financial Services Market. The Career Coaching Available Here Has Never Been Built at That Tier.
Principal Financial Group — a Fortune 500 global financial services company managing more than $700 billion in assets under management across retirement savings, investment management, insurance, and employee benefits — runs its entire global operation from Des Moines. Their institutional investment management, defined contribution retirement plan administration, group life and disability insurance, and global asset management operations all require the specific financial services vocabulary that distinguishes a Principal-caliber professional from a generic investment or insurance candidate anywhere in the country. Nationwide Insurance — one of the largest insurance and financial services companies in America, managing property and casualty, life and commercial insurance, and retirement savings — runs significant Iowa operations from Des Moines, including its Farm Bureau partnership that makes Nationwide one of the dominant agricultural insurance providers in America. EMC Insurance Companies — a Des Moines-headquartered property and casualty insurer ranking among the top 20 P&C groups in the United States — manages commercial lines, personal lines, and reinsurance operations from downtown Des Moines. Wells Fargo’s substantial Midwest hub operations. Iowa Farm Bureau Financial Services and FBL Financial Group — managing one of America’s most consequential agricultural finance corridors anchored by Iowa’s $35 billion annual agricultural economy. John Deere Financial’s agricultural equipment financing. Meredith Corporation’s Des Moines media operations. Hy-Vee Food Stores’ corporate operations. Most Des Moines professionals applying to these employers are competing with documents built for a generic Midwest financial services market that dramatically undersells the national and global sophistication of what Des Moines’ insurance and financial services industry actually is.
Principal Financial Manages $700 Billion in Assets. EMC Competes Nationally With The Hartford and Travelers. Most Des Moines Resumes Were Built for Neither Standard.
Principal Financial Group’s investment management bar is set against Vanguard, Fidelity, and TIAA — not against Iowa regional financial services norms. Nationwide competes nationally against Allstate and Progressive for insurance talent. EMC competes against regional P&C competitors nationally. Every Des Moines employer of consequence evaluates at a national standard — and almost no Iowa career coach was built to meet it.
Principal Financial Group — managing $700+ billion in assets across retirement savings, institutional investment management, individual insurance, and employee benefits for businesses and individuals globally — evaluates professionals for a financial services vocabulary that spans three genuinely distinct disciplines simultaneously. Retirement plan professionals are evaluated for defined contribution plan design depth — plan document compliance, nondiscrimination testing methodology, ERISA fiduciary standard language, and the specific recordkeeping and participant communication metrics that distinguish a qualified retirement plan administrator from a generic HR or benefits professional. Investment management professionals are evaluated for institutional portfolio construction, separate account investment management operational language, and the specific Principal Global Investors platform language that an asset management subsidiary of a Fortune 500 insurer creates. Group benefits professionals are evaluated for employer-sponsored group life, disability income, and dental plan design, renewal underwriting methodology, and the specific employer market segmentation language that Principal’s business-focused benefits distribution model demands. Most Des Moines financial services professionals have never had their resume built to communicate across all three simultaneously.
Des Moines is the capital of American agricultural insurance and finance — a distinction that shapes the hiring language of Nationwide Insurance’s Iowa operations, Iowa Farm Bureau Financial Services, FBL Financial Group, and John Deere Financial in ways that no generic financial services resume reflects. Nationwide’s Farm Bureau partnership and crop insurance operations evaluate underwriters and product managers for the specific multi-peril crop insurance (MPCI) structure, actual production history (APH) yield methodology, and the USDA Risk Management Agency regulatory framework language that agricultural crop insurance demands. Iowa Farm Bureau Financial Services evaluates financial advisors and insurance professionals for the specific farm financial planning, operating loan structuring, and agricultural real estate appraisal language that managing financial services for Iowa’s farming community requires. John Deere Financial evaluates credit analysts and portfolio managers for the specific agricultural equipment finance, seasonal payment structure, and farm equipment residual value modeling language that the world’s largest agricultural equipment manufacturer’s financing subsidiary demands.
EMC Insurance Companies — a Des Moines-headquartered property and casualty insurance group ranking among the top 20 P&C groups in the United States by direct written premium — evaluates underwriting, actuarial, claims, and technology professionals for the specific commercial lines and personal lines insurance vocabulary that a regional P&C carrier competing nationally against The Hartford, Travelers, and Hanover Insurance demands. Commercial lines underwriters at EMC are evaluated for book of business profitability metrics — combined ratio performance by line of business, renewal retention rate, new business hit ratio, and the specific middle-market commercial property, general liability, and workers’ compensation underwriting language that their independent agent distribution model creates. Actuaries are evaluated for P&C loss reserving methodology, commercial lines rate filing preparation under state filing requirements, and the specific credibility weighting and trend factor analysis that a regional P&C carrier’s actuarial function demands. A generic insurance or actuarial resume doesn’t communicate at the regional P&C depth that EMC’s hiring managers evaluate.
Des Moines’ Core Industries — America’s Agricultural Finance Capital and the Midwest’s Most Consequential Insurance Market
Des Moines sits at the intersection of two uniquely consequential financial services markets — national insurance and retirement services, and American agricultural finance. Together they create one of the most specialized and highest-compensating financial services professional markets in the country outside of New York, Hartford, and Chicago. We’ve placed professionals across all of it.
Principal Financial Group’s global headquarters managing $700+ billion in assets — defined contribution and defined benefit retirement plan administration, Principal Global Investors institutional asset management, individual retirement and annuity products, and specialty investment vehicles. TIAA’s Des Moines operations. Voya Financial’s Iowa presence. Retirement plan administrators, institutional investment professionals, actuaries, ERISA compliance specialists, recordkeeping technology professionals, and plan sponsor relationship managers all need resumes built in the specific qualified retirement plan, institutional investment management, and employee benefits language that Principal Financial’s multi-discipline financial services model demands at every career level.
Nationwide Insurance’s Iowa operations — property and casualty, life, commercial insurance, and retirement savings. EMC Insurance Companies — top 20 P&C group, commercial lines, personal lines, and reinsurance. Principal Financial’s group life and disability insurance operations. Iowa Farm Bureau Financial Services. Transamerica’s Des Moines life insurance and retirement operations. Actuaries, underwriters, claims professionals, product managers, insurance technology specialists, and independent agent distribution managers all need resumes calibrated to the specific insurance carrier language — P&C combined ratio, life and annuity reserve adequacy, crop insurance MPCI structure, and group benefits administration — that Des Moines’ uniquely concentrated insurance market demands.
Iowa Farm Bureau Financial Services and FBL Financial Group managing financial services for Iowa’s farming community — agricultural life insurance, crop insurance, farm financial planning, and rural property protection. John Deere Financial’s agricultural equipment financing operations. Farm Credit Services of America’s agricultural lending. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship’s regulatory environment. Agricultural financial advisors, crop insurance agents, farm credit analysts, agricultural equipment finance professionals, and rural insurance specialists all need resumes built in the specific Iowa agricultural finance language — operating loan structuring, APH yield verification, FSA payment programs, and farm financial statement analysis — that serves the most productive agricultural state in America.
Wells Fargo’s significant Des Moines Midwest hub operations — commercial banking, mortgage, and consumer banking. Bankers Trust Company — Iowa’s largest independently chartered bank. U.S. Bank Iowa operations. MidWestOne Financial Group. Ames-based Iowa State Bank Financial Group. Commercial bankers, agricultural lenders, mortgage professionals, and banking technology specialists in Des Moines need resumes that communicate Iowa’s specific commercial banking culture — community banking relationship depth, agricultural lending expertise, and the specific middle-market commercial banking language that distinguishes an Iowa commercial banker from a money-center bank transplant in the Des Moines market.
Meredith Corporation’s Des Moines global media headquarters — managing Better Homes & Gardens, People, and dozens of other major consumer media brands from Iowa. Hy-Vee Food Stores’ technology and digital commerce operations. Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corporation. A growing data center corridor driven by Iowa’s renewable energy advantage — Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Apple have all built major Iowa data center operations. Technology professionals, data engineers, digital media specialists, and IT infrastructure professionals in Des Moines increasingly compete against national technology talent markets and need documents calibrated to the specific fintech, insurtech, and agricultural technology language that Iowa’s financial services and agriculture convergence is creating.
Senior leaders targeting Director, VP, and C-suite roles at Principal Financial, Nationwide, EMC, and Iowa Farm Bureau — and professionals making the retirement-to-investment management, P&C-to-life insurance, banking-to-fintech, or agricultural finance-to-corporate pivots that Des Moines’ uniquely concentrated financial services base enables. Des Moines’ actuarial community is one of the most concentrated in the Midwest — FSA and FCAS credentialed professionals at Principal, Nationwide, and EMC need resumes that communicate their specific credentialing trajectory, project contribution depth, and the insurance carrier-specific actuarial language that distinguishes their expertise in the national actuarial talent market.
This Is What It Looks Like When a Hiring Executive Builds Your Resume at the Level Principal Financial, Nationwide, and EMC Insurance Actually Hire For
Anthony Harris spent 12+ years making hiring decisions across operations, process improvement, and enterprise leadership. He didn’t just review resumes — he made the calls that changed people’s careers. Every document we build is written with that exact perspective — what the person across the table from you at Principal Financial, Nationwide, EMC Insurance, Wells Fargo Iowa, or Iowa Farm Bureau is actually evaluating in those first six seconds.
Not “get more responses.” Land a role with an offer letter. The 87% placement rate in Des Moines is built on closing the specific gap between world-class national financial services employers — Principal Financial manages $700 billion and competes for talent against Vanguard and Fidelity, Nationwide competes against Allstate and Progressive, EMC competes against The Hartford — and career coaching that has historically treated Des Moines as a generic Midwest financial services market. Building documents that meet those specific national standards drives our results here consistently.
Principal Financial’s retirement plan and investment management hiring tracks fiscal year headcount planning and product development cycle milestones. Nationwide’s insurance hiring tracks underwriting year profitability cycles and insurance product launch timelines. EMC’s commercial lines hiring tracks renewal season and fiscal year planning. Iowa Farm Bureau’s agricultural insurance hiring tracks USDA crop insurance program calendar cycles. Our clients average 58 days to offer — the industry average is 120–180. Being positioned with the right employer-specific document before Des Moines’ financial services hiring windows open is the structural advantage that separates our clients from the national field they compete against.
Des Moines’ compensation bands at Principal Financial, Nationwide, and EMC are significantly wider than Iowa regional market assumptions suggest — Principal Financial pays institutional investment management, actuarial, and retirement plan professionals at national rates that compete against Vanguard, Fidelity, and TIAA, not against Iowa regional financial services market norms. Des Moines’ cost of living advantage — significantly lower than Chicago, Minneapolis, or Kansas City — combined with nationally competitive financial services compensation creates extraordinary total compensation value. Most Des Moines professionals are benchmarking their compensation expectations against Iowa regional norms that dramatically undervalue what their Principal or Nationwide-specific expertise commands nationally. We position you at the correct number.
Des Moines insurance and financial services professionals — and the actuarial community in particular — are analytically rigorous, credentialing-focused, and hold service providers to the same exacting standard their employers apply to every actuarial reserve, underwriting decision, and investment portfolio construction. An FSA actuary at Principal Financial knows immediately whether a career coach understands defined contribution plan ERISA compliance and Principal Global Investors’ platform language or is producing generic financial services output with Iowa company names inserted. The 4.9-star rating reflects what happens when genuine insurance and retirement financial services expertise meets real results in a market that has always deserved more than it has historically received.
Done-For-You. Principal Financial-Standard. Backed by a Guarantee.
Resume + Cover Letter
Best for: Des Moines insurance, retirement, and agricultural finance professionals getting filtered at national-caliber employers
Principal Financial, Nationwide, EMC, Wells Fargo Iowa, and Iowa Farm Bureau Financial Services hiring managers scan resumes in 6 seconds using ATS filters calibrated to their specific financial services vocabulary. We know exactly what earns the callback — defined contribution plan design and ERISA language for Principal, crop insurance MPCI and agricultural underwriting for Nationwide Iowa and Farm Bureau, commercial lines combined ratio and independent agent distribution for EMC, and middle-market agricultural lending language for Wells Fargo and Bankers Trust Iowa.
What you get: ATS resume · editable DOCX · keyword map · unlimited revisions 30 days
- Written in the specific language of your Des Moines employer — retirement plan administration, institutional asset management, agricultural insurance, P&C commercial lines, group benefits, banking, or media and technology
- Every bullet rewritten with quantified national financial services performance metrics at the standard Principal, Nationwide, and EMC actually evaluate
- Cover letter tailored to your specific target role at Principal Financial, Nationwide, EMC, Wells Fargo Iowa, Iowa Farm Bureau, FBL Financial, John Deere Financial, or Meredith
- Premium ($125): Resume + cover letter + full LinkedIn rewrite
Interview Accelerator
Best for: Des Moines professionals who need documents + coaching in one complete package
Clearing Principal Financial’s retirement services ATS and Nationwide’s insurance recruiter screen is step one. Winning the offer requires preparation built around how these specific Des Moines organizations actually evaluate candidates — Principal’s financial services depth and client relationship culture, Nationwide’s insurance discipline and values-driven culture, EMC’s independent agent partnership philosophy, Iowa Farm Bureau’s rural community and agricultural mission alignment — and compensation negotiation at national financial services rates, not Iowa regional market assumptions that undervalue what these employers actually pay.
What you get: Resume · Cover Letter · LinkedIn · 90-min coaching · Unlimited edits 30 days
- All documents built for your specific Des Moines target — Principal Financial, Nationwide, EMC, Wells Fargo Iowa, Iowa Farm Bureau, FBL Financial, John Deere Financial, Meredith, or Hy-Vee
- 90-min recorded coaching session built around your target organization’s actual interview format and financial services culture
- 3–4 business day delivery
- 60-Day Interview Guarantee: apply to 25 roles with no interview — we rewrite free
Executive Legacy Program
Best for: Des Moines Directors, VPs, actuarial leaders, and senior professionals targeting Fortune 500 financial services executive roles
At Director and VP level at Principal Financial, Nationwide, or EMC Insurance, a weak application is eliminated before a hiring manager reads it. Principal Financial competes against Vanguard, Fidelity, and TIAA for retirement and investment management executive talent. Nationwide competes nationally for insurance executive leadership. EMC competes against The Hartford and Travelers for P&C leadership. Complete executive presence package — every document — built to the national financial services standard these Des Moines employers actually require.
What you get: Exec resume · cover letter · LinkedIn · value prop letter · 60-min coaching · 60-Day Guarantee
- Executive positioning built for Des Moines’ national financial services employer culture — Principal Financial retirement and investment management leadership, Nationwide insurance enterprise leadership, EMC P&C commercial lines executive, Iowa Farm Bureau agricultural financial services leadership
- 60-min strategy session: executive interview prep or compensation negotiation benchmarked against national retirement, insurance, and agricultural finance executive rates — not Iowa regional market norms
- Pay in full or split with Klarna/Afterpay
LinkedIn Rewrite
Best for: Des Moines professionals invisible to Principal Financial and Nationwide corporate recruiters
Principal Financial, Nationwide, EMC, Wells Fargo Iowa, and Iowa Farm Bureau all source aggressively on LinkedIn before roles are posted. Principal’s talent acquisition searches for defined contribution, ERISA, institutional asset management, and Principal Global Investors specifics that generic financial services profiles don’t contain. Nationwide’s sourcing searches for crop insurance, MPCI, and agricultural underwriting specifics. EMC’s sourcing searches for commercial lines combined ratio and independent agent distribution depth. If your profile doesn’t surface in those searches, you’re invisible to Des Moines’ best financial services opportunities.
What you get: Headline · About · Experience bullets · recruiter keywords
- Headline engineered to appear in Principal Financial, Nationwide, EMC, Wells Fargo Iowa, Iowa Farm Bureau, FBL Financial, and John Deere Financial recruiter LinkedIn searches specifically
- About section that communicates your retirement plan, insurance, agricultural finance, or banking depth in the first three lines at a national financial services competitive standard
- Experience bullets built around the specific insurance, retirement, and agricultural finance vocabulary each Des Moines employer’s sourcing team searches for
Career Coaching
Best for: Des Moines financial services professionals who need full strategy, accountability, and national compensation benchmarking
Des Moines’ market rewards professionals who understand how to navigate Principal Financial’s multi-discipline financial services hiring culture, Nationwide’s values-driven insurance organization, and EMC’s independent agent partnership philosophy. This is weekly accountability, expert guidance built on 12+ years of hiring experience, and curated Des Moines job leads every Monday — focused on the nationally competitive insurance and financial services market Iowa actually is — until you land at the salary level these employers actually pay.
What you get: 1:1 coaching · resume/LinkedIn · weekly leads · strategy
- Essentials — $350: 2 sessions + resume/LinkedIn + 3 months leads + 3-Month Guarantee
- Advanced — $450: 3 sessions + exec resume + 6 months leads + salary coaching at national retirement, insurance, and agricultural finance rates
From Overlooked in Des Moines to Hired at Its Best Financial Services Employers — 4 Steps
Submit your resume. Within 24 hours we’ll identify exactly what’s costing you callbacks at Principal Financial, Nationwide, EMC, or Iowa Farm Bureau — missing ERISA retirement plan language, generic insurance copy, no crop insurance or actuarial credentialing specificity. No pitch, no obligation. The specific national financial services-caliber feedback your document needs.
Your resume and LinkedIn are rebuilt from scratch — defined contribution plan design, ERISA fiduciary, and Principal Global Investors platform language for Principal Financial; crop insurance MPCI, APH yield, and agricultural underwriting for Nationwide and Farm Bureau; commercial lines combined ratio, independent agent distribution, and P&C reserve adequacy for EMC; middle-market agricultural lending and Iowa farm financial planning for Wells Fargo and Bankers Trust. Built by a hiring executive.
We prepare you for your specific target’s interview — Principal Financial’s financial services discipline and client relationship culture, Nationwide’s values and mission alignment evaluation, EMC’s independent agent partnership philosophy and underwriting culture, Iowa Farm Bureau’s rural community mission — with compensation negotiation at national retirement, insurance, and agricultural finance rates, not Iowa regional market assumptions that leave money on the table.
Our clients average 58 days to offer vs. 120–180 day industry average. Principal Financial’s fiscal year hiring, Nationwide’s insurance cycle, EMC’s renewal season headcount, and Iowa Farm Bureau’s agricultural program calendar all create specific windows. The candidate positioned with the right employer-specific document when those windows open wins the role consistently in Des Moines’ nationally competitive financial services market.
Real Des Moines Clients. Real Results. Verified.
These aren’t testimonials we wrote. These are verified reviews from real clients who were exactly where you are — qualified for Principal Financial, Nationwide, and EMC roles, competing against national financial services candidates, and getting filtered by a document that didn’t speak Des Moines’ specific retirement and insurance language — and landed.
“Anthony worked with me to fix up my resume in just 30 minutes, and by the end of the week, I had a job! His help was truly invaluable. Don’t hesitate — you won’t regret it.”
“I got a $20K salary bump because I revised my resume to get me inside the right rooms. My resume told a real story of what I actually did. This was amazing.”
“They enhanced my resume, showcasing my strengths and tailoring it for specific industries. I’m now confident my resume will make an impact in any room I walk into.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Why choose Legacy Careers over other Des Moines career coaches?
Most career coaches give advice. Legacy Careers was built by a hiring executive who spent 12+ years making the decisions that changed people’s careers across operations, process improvement, and enterprise leadership. The 87% placement rate and 58-day average to offer are built on understanding exactly how Principal Financial, Nationwide, EMC, and Iowa Farm Bureau actually evaluate a resume. Des Moines has world-class national financial services employers — Principal manages $700 billion and competes for talent against Vanguard and Fidelity, Nationwide competes nationally against Allstate and Progressive — and the career coaching available in Iowa has historically been built for a generic Midwest financial services market that dramatically undersells the national and global sophistication these employers operate at. We bring the same insurance and retirement financial services expertise we deliver in Hartford, Omaha, and Kansas City to Des Moines at the standard these employers have always deserved.
Do you know Principal Financial’s retirement plan and investment management language?
Yes — defined contribution retirement plan administration and institutional investment management is one of our deepest Des Moines specialties. Principal Financial evaluates retirement plan professionals for defined contribution plan compliance depth: plan document nondiscrimination testing methodology — ADP/ACP test, top-heavy test, coverage test — ERISA Section 404(c) participant investment direction safe harbor compliance, and the specific qualified default investment alternative (QDIA) and automatic enrollment plan design language that Principal’s recordkeeping platform administers for thousands of employer plan sponsors. Principal Global Investors professionals are evaluated for institutional separate account investment management — portfolio attribution analysis, active risk budget management, and the specific multi-asset class investment strategy language that a global asset management subsidiary of an insurance company creates. We know the difference between a Principal Financial retirement plan resume and a generic 401(k) administration resume — the technical depth is genuinely different and the ATS distinction matters.
Can you help with Iowa’s agricultural insurance and Nationwide Farm Bureau language?
Yes — agricultural insurance is one of the most uniquely specialized financial services vocabularies in America, and Des Moines is its capital. Nationwide’s Farm Bureau partnership and crop insurance operations evaluate professionals for multi-peril crop insurance (MPCI) program administration: actual production history (APH) yield calculation methodology, prevented planting and replanting provision compliance, USDA Risk Management Agency approved insurance provider administrative requirements, and the specific loss adjustment methodology for corn, soybeans, and other major Iowa crop types. Iowa Farm Bureau Financial Services evaluates agricultural financial advisors for farm financial statement analysis using the Center for Farm Financial Management methodology — accrual-adjusted income statement preparation, debt-to-asset ratio management, and operating loan structuring for Iowa farm operations. John Deere Financial evaluates agricultural equipment credit analysts for dealer floor plan financing management, seasonal repayment structure analysis, and equipment residual value modeling specific to row crop and livestock production equipment. We build for each agricultural finance employer’s specific vocabulary precisely.
Do you work with EMC Insurance and commercial lines professionals?
Yes. EMC Insurance evaluates underwriters, actuaries, and claims professionals for the specific regional P&C carrier vocabulary that their independent agent distribution model creates. Commercial lines underwriters at EMC are evaluated for middle-market book of business profitability: written premium growth by class of business, loss ratio performance against actuarial selected loss ratios, renewal retention rate by risk size, and the specific workers’ compensation, commercial property, and general liability account underwriting language of a regional P&C carrier competing nationally. EMC’s actuarial function evaluates professionals for P&C loss reserve development under the Bornhuetter-Ferguson and chain-ladder methods, commercial lines rate filing preparation for Iowa and multi-state filing, and the specific trend factor and loss development factor selection methodology that a regional insurer with diversified commercial lines exposure requires. We know what an EMC Insurance resume needs to say that a generic P&C carrier resume doesn’t communicate at their specific independent agent distribution and middle-market commercial underwriting depth.
Do you work with Des Moines actuarial professionals?
Yes — Des Moines’ actuarial community at Principal, Nationwide, and EMC is one of the most concentrated in the Midwest, and actuarial resume building is a specific specialty for this market. FSA-credentialed life and health actuaries at Principal need resumes that communicate defined contribution plan pricing, group life and disability reserve adequacy, and the specific pension accounting under ASC 715 and FASB mark-to-market methodology that Principal’s diverse insurance and benefits product line creates. FCAS-credentialed P&C actuaries at Nationwide and EMC need commercial lines loss reserve development under multiple actuarial methods, rate filing credibility weighting, and the specific agricultural crop insurance loss cost modeling that makes Des Moines’ P&C actuarial function categorically different from a personal lines-focused carrier. We know that actuarial credentials alone don’t distinguish candidates — the specific project depth, methodology application, and employer-specific actuarial culture communication do. We build for that distinction precisely at each Des Moines carrier.
What if I don’t get interviews after working with you?
The Interview Accelerator and coaching packages include a 60-Day or 3-Month Interview Guarantee. Apply to 25 relevant roles with no interview and we rewrite your resume at no additional cost. We back the work with a guarantee because 87% of our clients land — and we know exactly what Principal Financial Group, Nationwide Insurance, EMC Insurance, Wells Fargo Iowa, Iowa Farm Bureau Financial Services, FBL Financial Group, John Deere Financial, and Meredith hiring managers need to see on a document that earns a callback in Des Moines’ nationally competitive insurance and financial services market today.
Des Moines is home to Principal Financial Group — managing $700 billion in assets — Nationwide Insurance, EMC Insurance, and Iowa Farm Bureau Financial Services. This city is America’s agricultural finance capital and one of the most consequential insurance and retirement markets in the country. All of these employers are hiring right now. Your resume just needs to match the national standard they actually set — not Iowa regional financial services career coaching output.
Des Moines hiring managers at Principal Financial, Nationwide, EMC, Wells Fargo Iowa, and Iowa Farm Bureau decide in 6 seconds. Those 6 seconds are won with specific ERISA retirement plan, crop insurance, P&C combined ratio, and agricultural finance vocabulary calibrated to each employer’s evaluation standard — not generic Midwest financial services language. Book a free 15-min consult. We’ll review your resume and tell you exactly what it needs to compete in Des Moines’ nationally competitive financial services market today.