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Career Coach Minneapolis MN · Resume Writing Minneapolis hires for the whole company. Not for one building.

This metro carries one of the highest concentrations of large corporate headquarters in the country, and headquarters do not hire site managers. They hire people to run a function across every site. Panels read for enterprise scope: categories owned, regions in scope, spend influenced, and the level your decisions were made at. A page describing one location gets read as a local candidate and priced there. Every document is built by a firm founded by a hiring executive with 2,500 placement decisions behind him.

87%Placement rateClients who completed a service
58dAverage to offerIndustry norm is 120 to 180
12+Years hiring sideFortune-ranked organizations
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Serving the Twin Cities metro and the ring: St. Paul, Bloomington, Edina, Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, Wayzata, St. Louis Park, Hopkins, Plymouth, Maple Grove, Brooklyn Park, Fridley, Arden Hills, Roseville, Woodbury, Eagan, Burnsville, Shakopee, and Rochester. Delivered virtually.

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Resume & Cover Letter
$149
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
Begin at $149
Your match
Resume, Cover Letter & LinkedIn
$299
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
Begin at $299
Your match
Executive Portfolio
$749
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
Begin at $749
Your match
Interview Ready
$549
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
Begin at $549
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Full Job Search
$1,197
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
Begin at $1,197
Your match
Executive Job Search
$2,497
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
Begin at $2,497
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Partner 5
$4,450per quarter
$890 a seat. Industry average sits near $1,900.
  • 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
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Partner 15
$11,250per quarter
$750 a seat. Published programs start at $2,400.
  • 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
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Partner 30
$19,500per quarter
$650 a seat, against a market average near $1,900.
  • 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
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Minneapolis, Minnesota

Career coaching and resume writing, for a headquarters market.

Legacy Careers LLC provides career coaching and resume writing to professionals in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and across the Twin Cities metro. The firm produces ATS-ready resumes, cover letters, match reports, LinkedIn profiles, and professional bios, and coaches clients through interviews, search strategy, networking, and offer negotiation including annual and long-term incentive plans. 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 unusually dense concentration of large corporate headquarters across retail, industrial products, insurance, and consumer goods, the medical device cluster that is the densest in the world, the hospital systems and the health insurance and services companies alongside them, the food and agribusiness giants west of the city, the banks, asset managers, and insurers downtown and in St. Paul, and the manufacturing, technology, and logistics employers ringing the metro. 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 Twin Cities specific, and the first question here is usually how to state enterprise scope for someone who has genuinely had it and never written it down. Deliverables and prices sit on resume writing services, session detail on career coaching programs, and employer seat pools on corporate outplacement.

The Sector Map

Who actually hires in the Twin Cities, and what each one reads for.

Six landscapes, and most of them are corporate centres rather than operating sites, which changes what a resume has to prove. Your document belongs to one of these.

Fortune 500 headquarters and retail

Few metros this size carry as many large corporate headquarters: mass retail, industrial products, consumer goods, insurance, energy, and agriculture, most of them running global functions from offices within twenty miles of each other. Panels read for enterprise scope rather than site scope, for cross-functional influence without authority, and for the level at which your recommendations were decided. These employers also hire from each other constantly, which makes the reference network here unusually tight. It also means the functional ladders are well defined: a corporate finance, supply chain, or marketing career here can be built across four or five employers without ever leaving the metro, which is rarer than it sounds.

Medical devices

The densest medical technology cluster in the world sits across the northern and western suburbs: cardiac rhythm, neuromodulation, structural heart, surgical, diagnostics, and the contract manufacturers and component suppliers feeding all of it. Panels read for design controls, verification and validation, risk files, submissions and clearances, and post-market work. It is a regulated environment first and an engineering one second, and candidates who lead with the engineering and bury the regulatory depth get filtered before anyone reads the technical detail. The supplier and contract manufacturing layer around the big names is a substantial employer in its own right and a far more open door, and it is routinely ignored by candidates fixed on the three or four companies everyone has heard of.

Healthcare and health insurance

Large hospital systems, an internationally known clinic an hour and a half south, children's and specialty hospitals, and one of the largest healthcare services and insurance organisations in the world headquartered here. This metro is one of very few places where payer, provider, and device all sit within the same commute, which makes crossing between them a genuine career strategy and the translation between their vocabularies a genuine obstacle. Clinical staff moving to the payer or device side in particular find the pay difference larger than expected and the language barrier higher, because a provider resume describes care delivered while the other two are buying cost, evidence, and outcomes.

Food and agribusiness

Global grain trading, branded packaged foods, dairy and agricultural cooperatives, protein processing, and the ingredient and food science operations behind them, several headquartered in the western suburbs. Panels read for category and brand scale, product development cycles, cost and margin, supply chain, and regulatory and food safety credentials. Research and development here is commercial work rather than academic, and it is described academically far too often. These employers also run some of the largest supply chain and procurement organisations in the country, which are a strong destination for operations people from any industry that moves physical goods.

Financial services and insurance

A large national bank, asset and wealth management, a fraternal financial services organisation, property and casualty insurers, and the risk, compliance, and operations functions beneath them, split between downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul. Panels screen for designations and licensing where they apply, regulatory literacy, named platforms, and assets or volume handled. This sector is quieter than the headquarters and medtech clusters and pays consistently well at the middle levels. It is also the most stable employment in the metro through a downturn, which makes it worth a serious look from anyone who has been through two reductions in a headquarters function.

Manufacturing, technology, and logistics

Industrial products, powersports and equipment manufacturing, filtration and fluid handling, printing, plus enterprise technology, retail technology, and one of the largest freight brokerage and logistics technology operations in the country. Panels read for rate, quality systems, supplier management, and safety in the plants, and for shipped product and commercial outcome in the technology organisations. Long tenure reads as reliability here in a way it does not on either coast. The logistics technology employers in particular hire commercial and analytical people who have never worked in freight, because the domain can be taught and the judgement cannot.

Compensation

What the Twin Cities pay for, and the part that vests.

No salary table appears here. At a headquarters the salary line is one of three, and the two beside it are frequently worth more over four years than any base increase you could negotiate. 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.
01

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 the spread runs on scope rather than title: the same job title at a global headquarters, a device manufacturer, a health system, and a regional bank carries four different scopes and four different bands.

Built per client
02

The package is base, annual incentive, and a grant

At most large employers here the offer has three parts: a base, an annual incentive expressed as a target percentage, and a long-term grant of restricted or performance shares with its own vesting and performance conditions. Ask what the target percentage is, how the annual incentive has actually paid out over recent years rather than what the target says, what the vesting schedule looks like, and what happens to unvested grants if you leave. Negotiating only the base leaves the larger number untouched.

The whole offer
03

The expectations question comes early

You will be asked for a number before anyone describes the scope, and it is easy to answer badly here because your current total compensation may include an incentive that has not paid out yet and a grant that has not vested. Quoting a base against a package, or a package against a base, both produce the wrong outcome. Answer with structure rather than a single figure, and rehearse it in coaching before a recruiter asks.

Coaching · before the screen
04

Cost of living cuts both ways

Housing here is meaningfully cheaper than the coasts for what you get, and the metro is unusually easy to live in for a market this size. Minnesota also taxes income at rates well above the Sun Belt states, which matters a great deal if you are comparing an offer here against one in Texas, Florida, or Tennessee. Neither fact settles the question on its own. Run the comparison on take-home against local costs before you let either argument decide it for you.

Relocation · both directions
05

The cycle sets the leverage

Several clocks run at once. The large headquarters plan on fiscal years and hire hardest in the first and third quarters, and they also restructure functions on a predictable cadence. Medical devices follow product approvals and launches. Food and agribusiness follow commodity and harvest cycles. Healthcare is steadier than any of them. Retail and consumer goods hire ahead of their peak and freeze during it. Knowing which calendar your target runs on tells you when to be in front of them.

Timing · honestly
06

The 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, and at a headquarters that view is a judgement about scope. A page that reads as one site, one plant, or one region gets slotted into a site-level band, and no amount of skill in the final conversation moves a candidate out of the band they were sorted into on the first read.

Where it really starts

No salary figures are published on this page because we have no Twin Cities dataset we would stand behind, and because at a headquarters the base is one of three components and rarely the largest over four years. Ranges are built per client from live target roles.

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The Map

Where the jobs actually sit, and what that costs you.

Eight hiring districts arranged in a ring around two downtowns that function as separate markets. Which quadrant you will genuinely commute to in January decides more of your search than your experience does.

Downtown Minneapolis

Banking, asset management, law, consulting, corporate headquarters, and a substantial technology and product workforce. The most transit-connected district in the state and the one where hybrid policy varies most between employers, which is worth establishing before you accept anything. Hiring here is structured, multi-round, and slower than the process most candidates from other markets expect. The skyway system also genuinely changes who will work downtown through winter, which is worth weighing if you are choosing between an office here and one on the beltway.

Downtown St. Paul and the east metro

Insurance, state government, healthcare, higher education, and corporate offices, with a distinctly different feel from across the river. It is a separate labour market in practice: people who work in St. Paul tend to live east, and the commute across the metro at peak is the reason. Underapplied for by candidates who default their search to Minneapolis. Public sector and insurance employers here also run published bands and structured processes, which makes preparation more predictable than at the corporate headquarters across the river.

The 494 strip: Bloomington, Edina, Richfield

Corporate offices, retail headquarters, hospitality, healthcare administration, and professional services along the southern beltway. Airport access made this the region's second business district and it draws candidates from every direction, which makes it more competitive than the posting volume suggests. Compensation practice here mirrors the downtown headquarters rather than the suburbs. It is also the easiest district in the metro to reach from both cities and from the southern suburbs, which is precisely why the applicant pool for every posting here is deeper than the job description suggests.

The west: Minnetonka, Eden Prairie, Wayzata, Hopkins

Health insurance and services at very large scale, food and agribusiness headquarters, medical devices, and corporate campuses along the western corridor. This is where a great deal of the region's best-paid non-clinical employment sits, and it is car-dependent in a way the city is not. For anyone living west it is a far better radius than downtown. It is also where the largest single employers in the state sit, which means internal mobility inside one company can substitute for a job search entirely if you know how to position for it.

The northwest: Plymouth, Maple Grove, Brooklyn Park

Medical device manufacturing and research, precision components, industrial products, and distribution. Regulated-industry vocabulary screens throughout, and quality, validation, and manufacturing engineering roles turn over here constantly. It is one of the better ratios in the metro for anyone with regulated manufacturing experience from any sector. Aerospace, automotive, and pharmaceutical quality people cross into devices here regularly, because the underlying discipline is the same and only the standard changes.

The northeast: Fridley, Arden Hills, Shoreview, Little Canada

Cardiac and neuromodulation device operations, contract manufacturing, defense and industrial electronics, and the supplier base around them. This corridor holds some of the largest single employment sites in the state and is almost invisible to candidates whose search stops at the city limits. Shift work is common in the plants and pay reflects it.

The south: Eagan, Burnsville, Lakeville, Shakopee

Corporate operations centres, distribution and fulfilment, manufacturing, and healthcare across the southern suburbs. Housing is more attainable than the west metro and the commute inbound is straightforward. Employers here hire faster than the headquarters and weigh certifications and a clean safety record above a degree.

Rochester and the outer ring

A clinic and health system of international standing an hour and a half south, alongside the research, technology, and hospitality economy built around it, plus manufacturing centres in St. Cloud and Mankato. These employers pay competitively for specialised clinical and research roles and recruit nationally. Whether any of it is on your list is worth deciding deliberately rather than by default.

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.

The Local Read

How a Twin Cities panel reads you.

Five things that are true here specifically, in the order they hit your application.

  1. 1

    The system reads you before a person does.

    The headquarters, the health systems, and the device manufacturers here all 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. Nobody tells you it happened, which is why the same fault quietly costs applications for months.

    Gate one
  2. 2

    They are buying enterprise scope, so state it.

    A headquarters hires someone to run a function everywhere, not to run a place. What answers that is the reach of your decisions: categories or brands owned, regions or countries in scope, spend or revenue influenced, how many sites or business units your work applied to, and the level at which your recommendations were approved. Plenty of people here have genuinely had that scope and describe it as though it happened in one building, which is the single most expensive habit in this metro.

    Gate two
  3. 3

    The decision is a consensus, and nobody will tell you.

    Expect several rounds, a lot of interviewers, and many of them peers rather than decision makers. Expect every one of them to be pleasant and none of them to indicate where you stand. Warmth here is manners, not a signal, and silence is usually scheduling rather than rejection. Prepare for each interviewer separately, because they each report on a different dimension, follow up on a fixed cadence, and keep every other conversation alive until something is in writing.

    Gate three
  4. 4

    Credentials and clearance are applied before the read.

    A clinical or nursing licence, a regulatory affairs or quality certification, a PE stamp, a CPA, a CFA or securities licence, a food safety credential, 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 device and food employers here, regulated-environment credentials frequently decide the shortlist before any technical experience is read.

    Gate four
  5. 5

    The same people rotate through the same companies.

    A few dozen large employers account for a very large share of the professional jobs here, and people move between them for entire careers. The person interviewing you has a real chance of knowing your last manager, and a reference call is often a conversation between two people who already trust each other. That raises the value of a precise claim and a warm introduction considerably, and it makes how you leave a role matter as much as how you performed in it.

    Gate five
What You Can Buy

Six packages.
Every price published.

Three document packages and three coaching programs, all built for one Minneapolis target role. Nothing here requires a call, and every price on this page is the price you pay.

DocumentsYou are qualified, the page is what is failing you.
Resume & Cover Letter$149
Resume, CL & LinkedIn$299
Executive Portfolio$749
01 · The Scan ATS SCORE CALLBACK
Entry

Resume & Cover Letter

Applying across the Twin Cities and hearing nothing back.

$149

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
Begin at $149
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02 · The Constellation TOP OF RESULTS FOUND BEFORE THE ROLE POSTS
Most chosen

Resume, Cover Letter & LinkedIn

Twin Cities recruiters should find you before the role posts.

$299

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
Begin at $299
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03 · The Vault VP / C-SUITE Three role versions
Director and above

Executive Portfolio

Director, VP, or C-suite in the Twin Cities.

$749

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
Begin at $749
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Coaching · Documents IncludedYou want someone working the Twin Cities search with you.
Interview Ready$549
Full Job Search$1,197
Executive Job Search$2,497
04 · The Exchange YOU PANEL OFFER BEFORE I STARTED METHOD
Entry

Interview Ready

You reach the panel. Then it stops there.

$549

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
Begin at $549
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05 · The Arc DAY 1 DAY 30 DAY 60 DAY 90 · OFFER SIX SESSIONS · WEEKLY LEADS
Most chosen

Full Job Search

Weighing a headquarters offer, alone.

$1,197

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
Begin at $1,197
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06 · The Orbit THE SEAT TEN SESSIONS · SIX MONTHS · COMP STRATEGY
Director and above

Executive Job Search

The seat is negotiated, not applied for.

$2,497

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
Begin at $2,497
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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 Minneapolis 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.

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Side By Side

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 roleup to 3up to 3
Coaching
Strategy call45 minincludedincluded
One-to-one coaching sessions2610
Interview prep, Before I Started Method
Search strategy and networking
Salary negotiation coaching
Weekly job leads90 days6 months
Support
Unlimited edits window30 days30 days60 days30 days30 days60 days
60-day interview guarantee
Program length3–4 days3–4 days3 days2 weeks90 days6 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.

Want the full deliverable spec, delivery timelines, and every purchase term written out?

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The Difference

Everyone says they write better resumes.
Here is what better looks like in the Twin Cities.

A Twin Cities panel settles two questions in about thirty seconds. How far did this person's decisions reach, and will they fix the problem I am hiring for? At a headquarters the first question is the one that sets your band, and it is the one most resumes here never answer. Every bullet gets rebuilt to answer it.

Medical devices · the Medical Alley translation
What was sent

R&D engineer working on new product development, running testing and documentation and supporting design reviews for class two devices.

What we wrote

Design Assurance: Owned the design history file and risk analysis for a class two device from concept through clearance, running the verification protocols that closed two design reviews, and resolving the biocompatibility question that had been holding the submission.

Why it works. Running testing and supporting design reviews describes participation in a regulated process. Design history file owned, risk analysis, concept to clearance, protocols that closed reviews, and a specific submission blocker resolved describe the person who carried the process. In a cluster this deep, the second version is the difference between the shortlist and the pile.

Food development · commercial, not academic
What was sent

Food scientist responsible for product development, conducting benchtop work and sensory evaluation and collaborating with cross-functional teams on new items.

What we wrote

Product Development: Took four items from benchtop to national launch inside two years, reformulating a flagship product to remove a cost driver without a sensory shift customers could detect, and running the plant trials that made the line producible at rate.

Why it works. Conducting benchtop work and collaborating reads as laboratory activity, which is how food scientists end up compared against academic candidates rather than commercial ones. Items launched, a reformulation that held sensory while removing cost, and plant trials that proved manufacturability are the three things a consumer goods panel is actually buying.

Corporate finance · influence without authority
What was sent

Senior financial analyst supporting the business unit with budgeting, forecasting, and monthly reporting, and partnering with stakeholders on ad hoc analysis.

What we wrote

Financial Planning and Analysis: Owned the plan for a business unit through a reforecast cycle, building the margin analysis that redirected spend away from two underperforming categories, and rebuilding the driver model the function now uses for annual planning.

Why it works. Supporting the business and partnering with stakeholders is the phrase that keeps finance people at the same grade for years, because it describes proximity to decisions rather than influence over them. Owning a plan, analysis that changed where money went, and a model the function adopted are all evidence of a seat at the table, which is exactly what a headquarters is levelling for.

Every rewrite above is built from facts the candidate already had. Nothing is invented, because in a metro where the same few dozen employers hire from each other for whole careers, the person interviewing you may well have sat in the same function, the same plant, or the same submission.

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Before You Buy

Ten questions, answered for the Twin Cities.

Cost, speed, coverage across both cities, and the questions a headquarters market asks that an operations one does not.

Do you meet clients in person in Minneapolis?

No. Every engagement runs virtually, which is a great deal easier than crossing the metro in February. The standard is identical whether you are downtown, over in St. Paul, out on the 494 strip, or up in Maple Grove. What is local is the target list, the employer landscape, and the vocabulary your documents are written in.

Does a Minneapolis resume actually need to be different?

The framework holds everywhere. What changes here is that this is a headquarters market. The largest employers are not running a site, they are running a global function out of this metro, and panels read for enterprise scope: the whole category, the whole region, the whole portfolio. A resume describing a single location or a single plant gets read as a site candidate and priced accordingly.

What does enterprise scope actually mean on a resume?

The size of what your decisions reached, not the size of your team. Categories or brands owned, countries or regions in scope, the revenue or spend you influenced, the number of sites or business units your work applied to, and the level your recommendations were decided at. A candidate who ran one plant well and a candidate who set the standard all the plants followed are different hires, and only one of those is usually written down.

How does the interview process work here?

Slowly, and by consensus. Expect several rounds and a lot of interviewers, many of whom are peers rather than decision makers, and expect all of them to be pleasant and none of them to tell you where you stand. Silence is not rejection here, it is scheduling. Follow up on a set cadence, keep your other conversations alive, and do not read warmth as an offer or politeness as disinterest.

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 Twin Cities metro and the ring: St. Paul, Bloomington, Edina, Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, Wayzata, St. Louis Park, Hopkins, Plymouth, Maple Grove, Brooklyn Park, Fridley, Arden Hills, Roseville, Woodbury, Eagan, Burnsville, Shakopee, and down to Rochester. Which side of the metro you will genuinely commute to narrows the target list quickly.

How should I evaluate a headquarters offer?

By treating the incentive plan as part of the salary rather than as a bonus. At this level the package is usually base, an annual incentive with a target percentage, and a long-term grant of restricted or performance share units with its own vesting and performance conditions. Ask what the target percentage is, how it has actually paid out over recent years, what the vesting looks like, and what happens to unvested grants if you leave. Minnesota also taxes income at rates well above the Sun Belt, which matters if you are comparing across states.

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 Twin Cities 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 Minneapolis. 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. In a metro where a few dozen large employers hire from each other for whole careers, how a reduction is handled becomes known quickly. The full economics are published on the outplacement page.

Something not covered here?

Email us and a real person answers, usually the same business day.

The Record

Measured, then published.

4.9
28 reviews · all five stars
87%Placement rateClients who completed a service and accepted an offer.
58dAverage to offerMeasured from delivery to a written offer. Industry norm is 120 to 180.
$15M+In client raisesTotal compensation increases across completed engagements.
On what changes when the story is built
"I was stagnant, excelling but never getting interviews elsewhere. Once I used this service that changed. My resume told a real story of what I actually did. I got a $20K salary bump."
AhmadVerified client · March 2025
On how fast it can move

"Anthony worked with me to fix up my resume in just 30 minutes, and by the end of the week, I had a job."

Kofi · Verified client · March 2025
On aiming at the right rooms

"They were thorough in understanding my background and helped align my skills with the right opportunities, showcasing my strengths and tailoring it for specific industries."

Vee · Verified client · April 2025
From an employer we worked with

"Marlon shared with me that he has enjoyed working with you and appreciates the additional support."

Anthony M. Graziani · Executive Vice President

Where our clients have landed

Apple
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Minneapolis, and every other market.

Legacy Careers LLC provides career coaching and resume writing services to professionals in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and across the Twin Cities metro, and in all 50 states. Twin Cities clients come from the unusually dense concentration of large corporate headquarters here across retail, industrial products, consumer goods, energy, and agriculture, from the medical device cluster spread across the northern and western suburbs, from the hospital systems and the health insurance and services organisations alongside them, from the food and agribusiness companies west of the city, from the banks, asset managers, and insurers in both downtowns, and from the manufacturing, technology, and logistics employers ringing the metro. 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 both cities, the suburban ring, and south to Rochester. Two things shape a search here that appear on no other page in this set. This is a headquarters market, which means the employers are hiring people to run functions across every site rather than to run one, and a resume written at site level gets sorted into a site-level band before anyone reads the detail. And decisions are made by consensus across a lot of interviewers who are unfailingly pleasant and will tell you nothing, so warmth is not a signal and silence is usually scheduling. 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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