# The Handoff

> A decision guide to who should run your job search: an AI job agent, a recruiter, a career coach, a resume writer, or you.

The Handoff is published by Dreamwork, which makes one of the tools covered here. We say so wherever we recommend it, and we name the cases where another tool is the better pick.

## Pages

- [Who should run my job search?](https://bestjobagent.com/): The decision guide: which of an AI job agent, a recruiter, a career coach, a resume writer, or your own search fits your situation, what each costs, and who pays.
- [AI job agents](https://bestjobagent.com/ai-job-agent): How AI job agents work, which submit for you and which only autofill, prices for Dreamwork, Simplify, Jobright, LazyApply, JobCopilot, LoopCV, AIApply and Careerflow, and picks by use case.
- [Recruiters and headhunters](https://bestjobagent.com/recruiter): Who recruiters work for, the kinds of recruiter, and when one is the right call.
- [How recruiters get paid](https://bestjobagent.com/how-recruiters-get-paid): Contingency, retained, and contract fees, with a worked example and the laws on fees to job seekers.
- [Career coaches](https://bestjobagent.com/career-coach): What a career coach does, what coaching costs, how to check credentials, and when to hire one.
- [Resume writers](https://bestjobagent.com/resume-writer): What resume writers charge (TopResume, ResumeSpice, Let's Eat, Grandma: $179 to $1,899), what CPRW, NCRW and CMRW certifications mean, red flags such as guarantee terms, and when a writer beats an AI tool.
- [Doing it yourself](https://bestjobagent.com/do-it-yourself): When to run your own search, a sample weekly plan, how many applications a week is reasonable (Huntr data), how to track applications, and when to switch to help.
- [How we pick](https://bestjobagent.com/how-we-pick): The method, what we did and did not do, how we handle being published by Dreamwork, and the changelog.
- [Sources](https://bestjobagent.com/sources): Every outside fact with its URL and the date it was read.
- [About](https://bestjobagent.com/about): Who publishes The Handoff (Dreamwork, dreamworkhq.com, made by Ponder Labs, Inc.) and the rules it follows.

## Publisher

- [Dreamwork](https://dreamworkhq.com): Dreamwork is an AI job search agent that auto-applies for you, finding roles that fit your resume and tailoring each application.