Career Coach Charleston SC · Resume Writing Charleston costs like a resort town. It should not pay like one.
Housing here is priced substantially by people who do not work here, while the service economy sets the wage floor beneath it. The industrial, port, and cleared employers twenty minutes north pay well above that floor, and a great many people on the peninsula have never seriously looked at them. Which of the three economies you are in matters more here than your job title does. Every document is built by a firm founded by a hiring executive with 2,500 placement decisions behind him.
Serving the Lowcountry: North Charleston, Mount Pleasant, Daniel Island, West Ashley, James Island, Johns Island, Hanahan, Goose Creek, Ladson, Summerville, Moncks Corner, Ridgeville, Isle of Palms, Sullivan's Island, Folly Beach, Kiawah, Awendaw, and Walterboro. 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 three economies.
Legacy Careers LLC provides career coaching and resume writing to professionals in Charleston, South Carolina and across the Lowcountry. The firm produces ATS-ready resumes, cover letters, match reports, LinkedIn profiles, and professional bios, and coaches clients through interviews, search strategy, networking, and salary negotiation. 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 here: the commercial aircraft assembly and automotive plants across the northern counties, the container port and the maritime, shipyard, and distribution economy around it, the joint base and the naval information warfare command with its cleared engineering and cyber workforce, the software companies that grew out of that talent, the tourism, hotel, and restaurant economy that made this city famous, and the academic medical centre, hospital systems, and colleges serving all of it. 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 Charleston specific, and the first question here is which of the three economies you are actually aiming at, because they pay differently and read the same record for different things. Deliverables and prices sit on resume writing services, session detail on career coaching programs, and employer seat pools on corporate outplacement.
Four Charleston 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.
Everyone here has hospitality experience. So mine counts for nothing.
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 Charleston, and what each one reads for.
Six landscapes stacked into one small metro, and they pay on completely different scales. Your resume belongs to one of them, written the way that one reads.
Aerospace and automotive manufacturing
Commercial aircraft final assembly and delivery in North Charleston, vehicle plants in the counties north and west, and the supplier base that followed them into the region. Panels read for rate and flow rather than for craft alone: takt, traveled work, out-of-station work, first-time quality, and what you did when the line stopped. These plants hire in waves tied to production rate increases, which are announced publicly, and they take experienced manufacturing people from any regulated industry. The supplier base that followed the anchors into the region is a substantial employer in its own right and a far more open door than the anchor plants themselves, with broader scope per title and much shorter hiring chains.
Port, maritime, and logistics
One of the deepest container ports on the East Coast, the terminals and drayage around it, ship repair and marine services on the former naval yard, and a distribution footprint spreading north along the interstates. The vocabulary is throughput and reliability: containers or units moved, dwell, turn times, on-time performance, headcount supervised, and safety record. Shift work is standard and the differentials are real money. The corporate side of this sector is larger than the terminals suggest too: customs brokerage, freight forwarding, and supply chain planning all sit here and hire people out of terminal operations more often than terminal people apply for them.
Military, defense, and cyber
A joint base combining air and naval commands, and a naval information warfare centre that employs a large engineering, IT, cyber, and programme workforce alongside the contractors supporting it. Clearance is applied as a filter before experience is read. This is the highest-paying employment concentration in the region and the one most invisible to people whose working life has been on the peninsula, which is a genuine missed opportunity rather than a figure of speech. The contractor layer around the command also hires uncleared people into roles that sponsor a clearance, which is the practical route in for anyone who does not already hold one and assumes the door is closed.
Technology
Enterprise and vertical software companies headquartered here, health and financial technology, defense-adjacent IT, and the startup layer that grew out of the cleared engineering talent and the colleges. Panels read for shipped product and domain depth rather than for breadth. The sector is small enough that reputation travels quickly and a warm introduction is usually available to anyone who has worked visibly in it. These employers also compete directly with the cleared world for the same engineers, which means they lean on flexibility and product work rather than pay, and that trade is worth naming openly in a negotiation.
Tourism, hospitality, and food
Hotels, resorts on the barrier islands, a nationally recognised restaurant scene, weddings and events, and the cruise and visitor economy on the peninsula. Panels read for covers, check average, labour cost, revenue, turnover, and how you performed through peak season and festival weekends. Experience here is abundant, which means it counts for very little until it is quantified, and quantifying it is the single highest-return edit most local candidates can make. The resort properties on the barrier islands also pay meaningfully better than their peninsula equivalents for the same role, and they are consistently overlooked by candidates who assume downtown is where the good hospitality jobs are.
Healthcare and higher education
An academic medical centre and research university, competing hospital systems, and a set of colleges including a military college and a large technical college feeding the plants. Licensure and regulatory vocabulary screen first, then volume carried. Between them these employers are the steadiest work in a region whose other sectors move with production rates, contract awards, and the tourist season. The medical university also runs a substantial research and grants operation, which is a distinct career track from clinical work and one of the few genuinely academic employers in the Lowcountry.
What Charleston pays for, and who sets the cost of living.
No salary table appears here. What this region has is a genuine mismatch between what it costs to live here and what a large part of the workforce is paid, and three economies sitting on top of each other with very different answers to it. Six things decide what you can credibly ask for.
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. Here that matters more than usual because the same job title pays on three different scales depending on whether it sits in tourism, in industry, or in cleared work, and the gap between the first and the third is very wide.
Built per clientThe cost of living is set by people who do not work here
Tourism and second-home demand price housing at resort levels while the service economy sets the wage floor beneath it. That is not a complaint, it is a planning fact: it means the affordability argument an employer makes to you carries less weight here than in most southern markets, and it means crossing from the tourism economy into the industrial or cleared one changes your financial position more than a promotion inside tourism ever will.
The whole offerThe expectations question comes early
You will be asked for a number before anyone describes the scope, and people crossing between the three economies are especially exposed because a hospitality salary history anchors far below what a plant or a cleared employer pays for comparable responsibility. Answering with what you earn now is how good operators stay underpaid for a decade. There is a way to hold the question open, and it gets rehearsed in coaching first.
Coaching · before the screenCost of living cuts both ways
South Carolina taxes income at moderate rates and the region remains cheaper than the northeastern markets sending people here, which is the argument recruiters use when hiring you in. What that leaves out is that housing and insurance in a coastal flood-exposed market have risen sharply, and the cost gap against the places people are leaving is narrower than it was. Run the comparison on take-home against current local costs including insurance.
Relocation · both directionsThe cycle sets the leverage
Several clocks run at once. The aircraft and vehicle plants hire against production rate increases, which are announced publicly and lead hiring by months. The port follows import volumes. Defense follows contract awards and appropriations. Tourism follows the season, roughly spring through autumn, and staffs hard ahead of it. Healthcare is steady year round. Knowing which clock governs your target tells you when to be in front of it.
Timing · honestlyThe document sets the ceiling
The band is largely settled before anyone speaks to you. A panel forms its view in the top third of your resume and opens accordingly. In this region the expensive habit is writing a hospitality record without numbers, because in a tourism town that experience is universal and a page that does not quantify it gives a reader nothing to distinguish you from everyone else who applied.
Where it really startsNo salary figures are published on this page because we have no Charleston dataset we would stand behind, and because the same title pays on three different scales here depending on which economy it sits in. Ranges are built per client from live target roles.
See coaching programsWhere the jobs actually sit, and what that costs you.
Eight hiring districts separated by rivers, marsh, and three bridges that decide everything. Which crossing you will make every morning narrows the target list faster than anything else you can tell us.
The peninsula and downtown
Tourism, hotels, restaurants, law, the medical university, a liberal arts college, and the professional services around them. It is the most visible part of the region and the smallest slice of its employment. Parking, bridge traffic, and housing costs shape who can realistically work here, and a great many people who love the peninsula commute to jobs nowhere near it. The employers here also skew small, which means broader scope per title and hiring that runs on reputation and referral rather than on process.
North Charleston
Aircraft final assembly, the port terminals, the joint base, the naval information warfare command, and the industrial and distribution base around all of it. This district holds the majority of the region's well-paid employment and almost none of its reputation. If your search has never left the peninsula, this is where it should go first. It is also the only district in the region where all three economies are represented within a few miles, which makes it the natural place to test which of them your record actually fits.
Daniel Island and the Cainhoy corridor
Corporate offices, software headquarters, financial and professional services, and the residential and sports development around them. Employers here are mid-sized, hire faster than the plants, and offer broader scope per title. It sits between Mount Pleasant and the industrial north, which makes it the compromise location for two-career households. Compensation practice here reflects national corporate norms more than local ones, which is worth knowing before you accept a number benchmarked against the peninsula.
Mount Pleasant and East Cooper
Healthcare, professional services, retail, hospitality, and the residential growth that made this the fastest expanding town in the region. The commute over the bridge is the defining constraint, and employers here compete on that convenience rather than on pay. Consistently the first place people look and rarely where the best-paid work is. Healthcare is the exception: the systems on this side hire continuously across clinical and administrative roles and pay competitively with anything in the region.
West Ashley, James Island, and Johns Island
Healthcare, services, retail, construction, and the resort employment out toward Kiawah and Seabrook. It is where a great deal of the region's workforce actually lives, and the employers here are smaller and hire faster than anything in the industrial north. Resort hospitality on the islands pays better than the peninsula and is regularly overlooked.
Summerville, Ladson, and Dorchester County
Vehicle manufacturing, aerospace suppliers, distribution, and the residential growth pulling steadily inland. Certifications and a clean safety record outweigh the school on your resume across most of this corridor. Housing is more attainable than anywhere closer in, which is why so much of the manufacturing workforce lives here. The technical college presence also means these employers are used to training people in, which makes this the most accessible corridor in the region for anyone changing industries without a degree.
Berkeley County: Goose Creek, Moncks Corner, Ridgeville
Automotive assembly, a large industrial campus, data centres, and the naval weapons station. This is where most of the region's recent industrial investment has landed, pay for technical and supervisory roles is competitive with anything in the metro, and the competition is a fraction of it. Almost invisible to candidates who search only Charleston County. The data centre and industrial campus development out here also brings facilities, electrical, and controls work that hires from any industry running uptime-critical plant, and nobody local searches for those roles by name.
The islands and the outer Lowcountry
Resort hospitality on Kiawah, Seabrook, Isle of Palms, and Folly, plus the small towns and agricultural economy out toward Walterboro and Awendaw. Seasonal hiring dominates the resort side and the pay is better than the peninsula equivalent, while the outlying towns supply a great deal of the labour to the plants an hour up the road.
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 Charleston 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 plants, the hospital systems, and every federal and defense posting here screen at volume before a person is involved. 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 requisition. Hospitality resumes fail this stage disproportionately when aimed at industry, because the vocabulary of the posting and the vocabulary of the record have almost nothing in common.
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Hospitality experience is abundant, so quantify it.
In a tourism town nearly everyone has worked a restaurant or a hotel, which means the experience differentiates nothing on its own and a page that says managed a busy restaurant is invisible. Numbers fix it immediately: covers on a peak night, check average, revenue, labour cost as a percentage, headcount, turnover, and what held through festival weekend. Those figures also convert the record into something an industrial or corporate panel can read.
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A clearance opens a second market twenty minutes away.
There is a substantial cleared engineering, IT, cyber, and programme workforce attached to the naval information warfare command and the joint base, paying at levels the peninsula economy does not reach, and a great many people who have lived here for years have never seriously considered it. If you hold a clearance, put the level, the investigation date, and the current status at the top of the page. If you are eligible, that is a real strategic option rather than a technicality.
Gate three -
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Credentials and clearance are applied before the read.
A security clearance and its status, an A and P certificate, a welding or NDT qualification, a TWIC for port and yard work, a clinical or nursing licence, a food safety certification, a CDL, or a PMP is treated as a gate rather than as a credit. Each belongs where a scanner catches it in the first ten seconds with the status and dates stated. In the port and manufacturing employers here a lapsed card can stop you working the same week.
Gate four -
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The plants hire ahead of a rate increase.
Aircraft and vehicle manufacturers announce production rate changes publicly, and hiring runs ahead of them by months across operations, quality, supply chain, maintenance, and the supplier base. That makes timing unusually readable here: an announced rate increase is a hiring signal you can act on before the postings appear. It also cuts the other way, and a rate reduction is worth knowing about before you accept an offer rather than after.
Gate five
Six packages.
Every price published.
Three document packages and three coaching programs, all built for one Charleston target role. Nothing here requires a call, and every price on this page is the price you pay.
Resume & Cover Letter
Applying across the Lowcountry 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 rate increase.
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
Director, plant, or programme leadership in Charleston.
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 panel. 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
Crossing from one Charleston economy to another.
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 Charleston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Charleston.
A Charleston panel settles two questions in about thirty seconds. How big was the thing this person ran, and will they fix the problem I am hiring for? In a region where three economies read the same record differently, a page written for the wrong one answers neither. Every bullet gets rebuilt for the reader it is actually going to.
Production manager in final assembly, supervising mechanics and ensuring aircraft moved through the line safely and to quality standards.
Final Assembly: Ran a position on the line with 60 mechanics across two shifts through a rate increase, cutting traveled work by rebuilding the kitting and readiness check before entry, and holding first-time quality while the takt time came down.
Why it works. Supervising mechanics and ensuring quality standards is the duty statement and every production manager in North Charleston can write it. Position, headcount, shift structure, a rate increase absorbed, traveled work reduced with a named mechanism, and quality held as takt tightened are the four things an aerospace operations leader screens on, because rate is where assembly lines fail.
Systems engineer supporting Navy communications programs, performing integration and testing and coordinating with government stakeholders.
Systems Integration: Integrated a shipboard communications suite across four platforms, closing the interoperability defects that were holding fleet acceptance, and running the installation and checkout availability that delivered the capability on schedule.
Why it works. Supporting programs and performing integration describes attendance on a contract. Platform count, defects closed against a named acceptance gate, and an availability delivered on schedule prove the candidate moved a capability into the fleet rather than documenting one, and that is the distinction a programme office and a contractor both hire on.
General manager of a restaurant, overseeing daily operations, managing staff, and ensuring high standards of guest service and food quality.
Restaurant Leadership: Ran a 180-seat room through peak season at 400 covers on a Saturday, holding labour under target while raising check average, and cutting hourly turnover in half in a market where every competitor was short-staffed.
Why it works. Overseeing operations and ensuring standards is on every hospitality resume in this city, which is precisely the problem: in a tourism town that sentence differentiates nobody. Seats, covers on a peak night, labour percentage, check average, and turnover halved during a labour shortage are a profit and loss with people attached, and they read as operations leadership to employers well outside restaurants.
Every rewrite above is built from facts the candidate already had. Nothing is invented, because in a metro this size the person interviewing you may well have worked the same line, the same programme, or the same room.
Get my $25 auditTen questions, answered for Charleston.
Cost, speed, coverage across the Lowcountry, and the questions a three-economy market asks that others do not.
Do you meet clients in person in Charleston?
No. Every engagement runs virtually, which spares everyone the bridge traffic. The standard is identical whether you are on the peninsula, up in North Charleston, over in Mount Pleasant, or out toward Summerville and the Berkeley County plants. What is local is the target list, the employer landscape, and the vocabulary your documents are written in.
Does a Charleston resume actually need to be different?
The framework holds everywhere. What changes here is that three economies sit on top of each other and barely acknowledge one another: a tourism and food economy on the peninsula, an industrial and port economy to the north, and a cleared defense and technology world in between. They pay very differently and read resumes for completely different things.
I have hospitality experience. Why does it not seem to count?
Because in a tourism town everyone has it, so it differentiates nothing on its own. What separates people is scale stated in numbers: covers, revenue, labour cost as a percentage, headcount, turnover, and what you did through a peak season or a festival weekend. A page that says managed a busy restaurant is invisible here. A page that says the covers, the check average, and the labour percentage is not.
Is a security clearance really worth pursuing here?
For a lot of people, yes, and most locals never consider it. There is a substantial cleared workforce attached to the naval information warfare command and the joint base, doing engineering, IT, cyber, and programme work at pay levels the tourism economy cannot approach, twenty minutes from the peninsula. If you already hold a clearance, say so at the top of the page. If you are eligible and interested, it is a genuine second market.
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.
How far out do you cover?
The Lowcountry: North Charleston, Mount Pleasant, Daniel Island, West Ashley, James Island, Johns Island, Hanahan, Goose Creek, Ladson, Summerville, Moncks Corner, Ridgeville, Isle of Palms, Sullivan's Island, Folly Beach, Kiawah, Awendaw, and out to Walterboro. Which bridge you cross every morning narrows the target list faster than anything else you can tell us.
Why does everything cost so much here relative to what jobs pay?
Because the cost of living is set substantially by people who do not work here. Tourism and second-home demand price housing at resort levels while the service economy sets the wage floor beneath it. The industrial, port, and cleared employers pay well above that floor, which is why which of the three economies you are in matters more here than your job title does.
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 Charleston 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 Charleston. 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. Production rate changes and contract losses move whole teams in this region, which makes this a recurring need. The full economics are published on the outplacement page.
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Legacy Careers LLC provides career coaching and resume writing services to professionals in Charleston, South Carolina and across the Lowcountry, and in all 50 states. Charleston clients come from the commercial aircraft assembly and automotive plants across the northern counties, from the container port and the terminal, drayage, ship repair, and distribution economy around it, from the joint base and the naval information warfare command with its cleared engineering, IT, and cyber workforce, from the software companies that grew out of that talent, from the hotel, resort, and restaurant economy that made this city famous, and from the academic medical centre, hospital systems, and colleges serving all of it. 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 Charleston, Berkeley, and Dorchester counties and the outer Lowcountry. Two things shape a search here that appear on no other page in this set. The cost of living is set substantially by people who do not work here, so the affordability argument an employer makes carries less weight than it does elsewhere in the south, and crossing from the tourism economy into the industrial or cleared one changes your financial position more than any promotion inside tourism will. And hospitality experience is so abundant that it differentiates nobody until it is quantified, which makes putting covers, labour percentage, and turnover on the page the single highest-return edit most candidates here can make. 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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