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Career Coach Washington DC · Resume Writing Washington runs on two resumes. Most people only have one.

A federal announcement wants four to six pages scored against a specialized experience statement. A contractor or commercial employer wants two pages of outcomes. They are not versions of each other, and a two-page resume submitted through USAJOBS is usually rated ineligible before a human sees it. If you are applying to both economies, you need both documents. Every one 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 District, Northern Virginia, and suburban Maryland: Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax, Springfield, Annandale, Tysons, McLean, Reston, Herndon, Ashburn, Woodbridge, Bethesda, Rockville, Silver Spring, Gaithersburg, College Park, and Bowie. Delivered virtually.

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Your match
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
Your match
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
Your match
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
Reserve 5 seats
Your match
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
Reserve 15 seats
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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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Washington, DC

Career coaching and resume writing, for two economies.

Legacy Careers LLC provides career coaching and resume writing to professionals in Washington DC and the surrounding region. The firm produces federal resumes and private sector resumes, cover letters, match reports, LinkedIn profiles, and professional bios, and coaches clients through interviews, search strategy, networking, and salary negotiation, with federal-to-private translation as a core competency. Documents run $149 to $749 and coaching programs run $549 to $2,497, with a $25 resume audit as the entry point. The work targets the employers actually hiring across the region: the federal agencies inside the District, the government contractors and professional services firms across Northern Virginia, the defense, intelligence, and cyber employers around the beltway, the associations, nonprofits, and international organisations that concentrate here more than anywhere in the world, the biomedical research institutions and the life sciences corridor in Montgomery County, and the technology and data centre economy out toward Dulles. 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 format your documents follow are Washington specific, and the first question here is always whether you are applying into the federal system, the contractor economy, or both. 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 Washington, and what each one reads for.

Six landscapes, and the first three run on documents, clearances, and contracts rather than on resumes as the rest of the country understands them.

Federal government

Cabinet departments, independent agencies, the legislative branch, and the inspectors general and oversight bodies attached to them. This sector does not read resumes, it scores announcements. Applications are rated against the specialized experience statement almost word for word, with series, grade, time in grade, and hours per week all treated as eligibility facts rather than as detail. It is also the most procedurally forgiving employer in the country if you follow the process and the least forgiving if you do not.

Government contracting

The professional services firms, integrators, and small businesses that deliver the work agencies buy, concentrated across Northern Virginia. Panels read for contract vehicles, agency customers, cleared status, and whether you have carried a program through a recompete. Your employer of record often matters less than the contract you sat on, and candidates routinely omit the one thing a hiring manager is looking for: the agency and the prime.

Defense, intelligence, and cyber

Uniformed and civilian defense components, the intelligence community, and the cleared contractor base built around them, running from the Pentagon out past the beltway. Clearance level, polygraph status, and adjudication currency are applied as filters before experience is read, and in this sector a clearance is straightforwardly compensable. Much of the work cannot be described in detail, which makes how you write around it a genuine skill.

Associations, nonprofits, and policy

Trade associations, professional societies, advocacy organisations, think tanks, foundations, unions, and international financial institutions. No other city in the world carries this sector at this density. Panels read for membership growth, programme and event scale, revenue lines, coalition and stakeholder work, and policy outcomes. It is also the most common landing sector for people leaving the Hill or an agency who want to stay in the subject matter.

Healthcare, biotech, and research

Biomedical research agencies and the regulatory bodies alongside them, academic medical centres and large hospital systems across the region, and the life sciences corridor running up through Montgomery County. Hiring runs far past clinical into clinical research administration, regulatory affairs, quality, informatics, and grants management. Grant and regulatory vocabulary screens first here in the same way clinical licensure does elsewhere.

Technology and corporate

Cloud and enterprise technology offices, the largest concentration of data centres in the world out toward Dulles, telecommunications, and the corporate headquarters, law firms, and real estate businesses serving the region. These employers draw from the cleared workforce and the commercial one at the same time, which makes them the most common bridge for someone leaving government work but not the region.

Compensation

What Washington pays for, and which economy you are negotiating with.

No salary table appears here, and for federal roles none is needed: the scale and its locality adjustment are published and you can read them yourself. The contractor economy alongside it works on completely different rules. 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

Federal and contractor pay are not the same negotiation

Inside government the number is largely set: a published scale with a locality adjustment, and the negotiation is about series, grade, step, and occasionally a superior qualifications appointment justified in writing. On the contractor side the number comes from the bill rate on the contract, which means there is real room and it varies by vehicle and by how badly the seat needs filling. Knowing which conversation you are in changes what you should ask for and how.

Built per client
02

Your clearance is a compensable asset

In this region a current clearance changes what you can be paid, not just what you can apply to, and the premium is larger at higher levels and with a polygraph attached. State the level, the adjudication or investigation date, and the current status near the top of the page. If you are leaving a cleared role, understand that the value decays once the reciprocity window closes, which makes the timing of your search a financial decision rather than a preference.

The whole offer
03

The expectations question comes early

Federal announcements ask for your grade history rather than a salary expectation, which people mishandle by understating time in grade. Contractors ask early and directly, because they are pricing you against a bill rate they already know. Answering blind on the contractor side sets your own ceiling. There is a way to handle both that keeps you in the process, and it gets built and rehearsed in coaching first.

Coaching · before the screen
04

Cost of living cuts both ways

This is one of the most expensive regions in the country and the federal locality adjustment exists precisely because of it. What that adjustment does not fully cover is the difference between living inside the beltway and commuting from the outer counties, which is a real annual cost in tolls, parking, and hours. Telework policy has moved substantially in recent years and is now a compensation question in its own right, so establish it before you accept rather than after.

Relocation · both directions
05

The cycle sets the leverage

This region runs on a clock nobody else uses. The federal fiscal year ends on 30 September, which drives a hiring and award surge in the weeks before it and a lull afterward. Continuing resolutions freeze hiring for months at a time. Contract awards and recompetes move whole teams between employers overnight. Administration changes reshape agency priorities. Knowing where you sit in that cycle is worth more here than in any other market.

Timing · honestly
06

The document sets the ceiling

The band is largely settled before anyone speaks to you, and in the federal system a rating decision is made before a human is involved at all. A federal application that omits hours per week or fails to mirror the specialized experience statement is rated ineligible regardless of how strong the record is, and a government resume sent to a commercial employer is read as a list of duties rather than a record of results.

Where it really starts

No salary figures are published on this page. Federal pay follows a published scale with a locality adjustment that you can read directly, and contractor pay is set by the bill rate on a specific contract, so a regional average would describe neither.

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The Map

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

One region, three jurisdictions, and eight hiring districts joined by a rail system and two river crossings. Which side of the Potomac you can reach every morning decides more of your search than your experience does.

Downtown, K Street, and the Golden Triangle

Associations, law firms, lobbying and public affairs, consulting, and the international institutions. The densest professional employment in the District and the best served by Metro from every direction. Hiring here runs on relationships and subject matter reputation more than on postings, particularly in the association and advocacy world where a great many roles are filled quietly.

Capitol Hill and NoMa

Congressional offices and committees, legislative affairs, advocacy organisations, and the agencies clustered nearby. Hiring is fast, networked, and cyclical, and pay is famously below what the same skill earns three miles west. It is a career entry point rather than a destination for most people, and the exit into associations, contractors, or firms is the move worth planning for from the start.

Federal Triangle, L\'Enfant, and the Southwest waterfront

Cabinet departments and independent agencies at scale. Almost everything here is hired through the federal process, which means the document requirements and the timelines are unlike anywhere else in the region. Telework and return-to-office policy has moved more here than in any other district and is worth establishing before you accept anything.

Arlington, Crystal City, and Pentagon City

Defense components, contractors, a major technology headquarters, and the professional services firms serving all of them. Metro access is excellent and the cleared employment density is among the highest in the country. This is the natural first radius for anyone leaving uniformed service or a defense agency without leaving the region.

Alexandria, Springfield, and Fort Belvoir

Defense agencies, logistics and acquisition commands, contractors, and the small business base supporting them. Quieter and less expensive than the Arlington corridor, with commutes that work well from the south and badly from Maryland. A great deal of acquisition and program management work sits here and is underapplied for.

Tysons, McLean, Reston, and Herndon

The centre of the contracting economy: integrators, consultancies, technology firms, and corporate headquarters along the Dulles corridor. Silver Line access changed who can reach it. Compensation here is driven by bill rates and clearance rather than by published scales, which makes it the part of the region with the most genuine negotiating room.

Loudoun, Ashburn, and Dulles

Data centres at a scale that exists nowhere else, aviation and logistics, aerospace, and the construction and facilities workforce building all of it. Shift work is standard across the data centre operations and pay reflects it. It is the fastest growing employment footprint in the region and the least understood by candidates who search only inside the beltway.

Bethesda, Rockville, and the 270 corridor

Biomedical research, regulatory agencies, hospital systems, biotech and device companies, and the clinical research organisations around them. A genuinely separate labour market with its own vocabulary of grants, protocols, and submissions. For anyone living in Maryland it is a far better radius than Northern Virginia, and the crossing between the two is the commute most people underestimate.

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 Washington 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.

    USAJOBS and the agency systems behind it do not screen the way a commercial applicant tracking system does. They rate your application against the announcement's stated qualifications, and an omission is treated as an absence rather than an oversight. Missing hours per week, an unstated series, or a specialized experience section that does not mirror the announcement will end an application on its own. The contractor systems alongside it are ordinary by comparison.

    Gate one
  2. 2

    The federal resume is a different document, and longer.

    Four to six pages is normal and appropriate. It wants full employment history, hours per week, salary or grade, supervisor details, and a specialized experience narrative written against the announcement rather than against your career. Everything the private sector teaches you about brevity works against you here. The reverse is equally true: that same document sent to a contractor or a commercial employer reads as unedited and unfocused.

    Gate two
  3. 3

    Name the agency, the contract, and the prime.

    In the contracting economy your employer of record is frequently the least useful fact about your last job. What a hiring manager wants to know is which agency you supported, on which contract or vehicle, under which prime, and what you owned inside that scope. Candidates list the company and omit all three, and the panel is left unable to place work that would otherwise have made them an obvious fit.

    Gate three
  4. 4

    Credentials and clearance are applied before the read.

    A clearance and its status, a PMP, a CISSP or equivalent security certification, a CPA, bar admission, a clinical or research credential, or a specific acquisition certification is treated as a gate rather than as a credit. Each belongs where a scanner catches it in the first ten seconds, with level and dates stated. Across this region a blank space is read as a no rather than as an omission.

    Gate four
  5. 5

    Nothing here is permanent, and panels know it.

    Contracts end, recompetes are lost, agencies reorganise, and administrations change priorities. Everyone reading your resume in this region has been on the wrong side of one of those, so a departure tied to a contract loss or a reorganisation carries no stigma at all, provided you name the cause. Leaving it unexplained is what invites the unfavourable reading, and it is one of the easiest fixes available on a Washington resume.

    Gate five
What You Can Buy

Six packages.
Every price published.

Three document packages and three coaching programs, all built for one Washington 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 DMV 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
Klarna & Afterpay
02 · The Constellation TOP OF RESULTS FOUND BEFORE THE ROLE POSTS
Most chosen

Resume, Cover Letter & LinkedIn

Recruiters should find you before the requisition opens.

$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
Klarna & Afterpay
03 · The Vault VP / C-SUITE Three role versions
Director and above

Executive Portfolio

SES, VP, or C-suite in the Washington region.

$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
Klarna & Afterpay
Coaching · Documents IncludedYou want someone working the Washington 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
Klarna & Afterpay
05 · The Arc DAY 1 DAY 30 DAY 60 DAY 90 · OFFER SIX SESSIONS · WEEKLY LEADS
Most chosen

Full Job Search

Crossing between two economies, on your own.

$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
Klarna & Afterpay
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
Klarna & Afterpay

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Send the resume you are using now. A hiring executive reads it and returns a written PDF breakdown within 24 business hours: where a Washington 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 Washington.

Two of the three economies here do not read resumes the way the rest of the country does. A federal panel rates your application against a written standard, and a contracting panel wants the agency, the vehicle, and the scope. Every bullet gets rebuilt for whichever of the two is actually reading it.

Federal · writing to the specialized experience statement
What was sent

Program analyst responsible for supporting program operations, preparing reports for leadership, and assisting with budget execution activities.

What we wrote

Program Analysis, GS-0343, 40 hours per week: Executed a $12M program budget across three offices, reconciling obligations monthly, producing the spend plan briefed to the deputy, and closing two audit findings ahead of the fiscal year end.

Why it works. Supporting and assisting are the two words that get a federal application rated below the cut. The rewrite states the series and hours the announcement requires, then mirrors the specialized experience language with budget executed, obligations reconciled, a product delivered to a named level, and findings closed. Same job, rated eligible instead of ineligible.

Contracting · the three facts everyone leaves off
What was sent

Program manager overseeing a team of consultants delivering IT modernization services to a government client.

What we wrote

Program Management: Ran a 45-person task order under a civilian agency IDIQ, holding staffing to ceiling through a hiring freeze, carrying CPARS at exceptional across two periods, and leading the recompete that won a five-year follow-on.

Why it works. A government client could mean anything and tells a hiring manager nothing. Vehicle type, headcount, staffing held through a freeze, CPARS ratings, and a recompete won are the exact facts a capture lead or a delivery director screens for, and they place the candidate on a specific contract in a specific agency in one line.

Associations · a revenue job, described as a service one
What was sent

Director of membership, responsible for member services, engagement initiatives, and supporting the annual conference.

What we wrote

Membership and Revenue: Grew dues revenue across three renewal cycles by lifting retention among lapsed small-firm members, and rebuilt the annual meeting programme into the association\'s second revenue line at record attendance.

Why it works. Member services and engagement initiatives make an association job sound administrative when it is a subscription business with an events arm attached. Dues revenue, retention inside a named segment, and a meeting turned into a second revenue line are commercial outcomes, and they let association people compete for revenue and operations roles well outside the sector.

Every rewrite above is built from facts the candidate already had. Nothing is invented, because in a region this interconnected the person interviewing you may well have sat on the same contract, in the same agency, or across the table during the last recompete.

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Before You Buy

Ten questions, answered for Washington.

Cost, speed, coverage across three jurisdictions, and the questions only a federal town asks.

Do you meet clients in person in Washington DC?

No. Every engagement runs virtually, which is simpler than coordinating across the District, Northern Virginia, and suburban Maryland. The standard is identical whether you are on the Hill, in Tysons, or up the 270 corridor. What is local is the target list, the employer landscape, and the vocabulary your documents are written in.

Do I need a federal resume or a regular one?

Whichever the posting requires, and they are genuinely different documents. A federal resume is longer, often four to six pages, and is scored against the specialized experience statement in the announcement almost literally, with hours per week, series, grade, and supervisor details expected. A two-page private sector resume submitted through USAJOBS is usually rated ineligible before a human sees it. If you are applying to both, you need both.

I am leaving government for the private sector. What changes?

Almost everything about how the record is presented. Grade and series mean nothing to a commercial panel, position descriptions read as duties rather than results, and the acronyms are unreadable. What transfers is scope: budget managed, people led, programs owned, stakeholders handled, and outcomes delivered. The match report names the commercial titles your record already reaches, and the documents lead with the transferable work.

How much is my clearance actually worth?

In this region it is one of the most valuable things on your resume, and it is compensable. State the level, whether a polygraph is included, the adjudication or investigation date, and whether it is currently active or eligible for reinstatement, near the top of the page. If it is about to lapse after leaving a cleared role, that timing is worth naming, because the value falls sharply once reciprocity windows close.

What does it cost, and how fast do I get it?

The $25 resume audit is the entry point and comes back as a written PDF inside 24 business hours. Documents are $149, $299, and $749. Coaching is $549, $1,197, and $2,497. Standard build is 3 to 5 business days and expedited is 1 to 2. Klarna and Afterpay are available at checkout on all of it.

Which parts of the region do you cover?

The District, Northern Virginia, and suburban Maryland: Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax, Springfield, Annandale, Tysons, McLean, Reston, Herndon, Ashburn, Woodbridge, Bethesda, Rockville, Silver Spring, Gaithersburg, College Park, and Bowie. Tell us which Metro lines or which side of the river you will genuinely commute, because it narrows the target list quickly.

How do I work out what to ask for here?

It depends which economy you are entering. Federal pay follows a published scale with a locality adjustment, so the number is largely fixed and the negotiation is about grade, step, and sometimes a superior qualifications appointment. Contractor pay is driven by the bill rate on the contract and has real room in it. Clearance carries a premium in both. Knowing which of the two you are negotiating against changes the entire conversation.

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 Washington clients virtually, and was founded by an executive with 12+ years on the hiring side and 2,500+ placement calls behind him.

Is there a guarantee?

On every coaching program. Send 25 relevant applications inside sixty days without landing an interview and the work continues at no additional cost until interviews arrive. Document packages carry an edit window instead: 30 days on the standard tiers, 60 on the executive tier, with no revision count and no charge per round.

We are cutting roles in the DC region. 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. Contract losses and recompetes make this a common need in this region, and 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
Google
Microsoft
Deloitte
Chase
Lowe's

Clients have accepted roles at these organizations following a completed Legacy Careers engagement. Legacy Careers is an independent career services firm and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or a recruiting agent for any organization named. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Placement rate is the share of clients who completed a service and accepted an offer. Average time to offer is measured from service delivery to a written offer. Every review verified on Google.

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Coverage

Washington, and every other market.

Legacy Careers LLC provides career coaching, federal resume writing, and private sector resume writing to professionals in Washington DC and the surrounding region, and in all 50 states. Washington clients come from the federal agencies inside the District, the contractors and integrators across Northern Virginia, the defense, intelligence, and cyber employers around the beltway, the associations, nonprofits, and international institutions that concentrate here more densely than anywhere in the world, the biomedical research and regulatory bodies and the life sciences corridor in Montgomery County, and the technology and data centre economy toward Dulles. Federal-to-private translation is a core focus. Documents are ATS-ready or announcement-ready depending on where they are going, and every one is written for one target role at one kind of employer, with a match report naming the titles a background genuinely reaches. Packages run $149 to $749, coaching $549 to $2,497, and the $25 audit returns a written PDF within 24 business hours.

Coverage spans the District, Northern Virginia, and suburban Maryland. What makes this region unlike any other on this site is that it runs two hiring systems side by side. One rates applications against a published standard and rewards length and literal compliance. The other prices you against a bill rate and rewards scope stated in agency and contract terms. Most people here will apply into both at some point in a career, and they need a document for each. The standard behind both was set on the hiring side across 2,500 placement decisions and is applied before anything is released.

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