Jeff Gillis is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of The Interview Guys, the career-advice site he and Mike Simpson launched in 2013. Over the last 13 years, Jeff has been the strategic mind behind how the site connects with job seekers, helping reach more than 100 million people worldwide through content, tools, and product development.
His background is in IT and digital strategy, which shapes how he approaches the modern job search: ATS systems, resume optimization, the mechanics of how recruiters and platforms actually filter candidates, and the tactics that work when applying through online portals. Jeff has published more than 50 in-depth career resources including case studies, comprehensive guides, and video courses, and his work has appeared in INC, MSN, and ZDNet.
Articles credited to Jeff on The Interview Guys are reviewed and edited by him personally, with a focus on resume strategy, job-search tactics, and how to actually get past the digital gatekeepers most candidates struggle with.
Meta AI is quietly one of the easiest tools for resume work, and it’s probably already on your phone. It lives inside WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Facebook, and at meta.ai, so you can draft a bullet point while you’re waiting for coffee. Here’s what most people get wrong. They treat a Meta AI chat like a…
Meta AI is free, fast, and built for exactly the kind of writing LinkedIn rewards. It runs on Llama 4 and it is tuned for a social, conversational tone, so when you feed it your messy bullet points it hands back clean headlines and readable summaries in seconds. Here is what most people get wrong….
Meta AI is quietly one of the fastest ways to get a cover letter off the ground. It’s built on Llama 4, it’s free, and it writes clean, conversational prose in seconds. If you’re staring at a blank page, that first clean draft is worth a lot. Here’s what most people get wrong. They assume…
Meta AI is free, it’s already on your phone, and it talks back out loud. That makes it one of the easiest ways to rehearse for an interview without booking a coach or begging a friend to role-play. Here’s what most people get wrong: they treat one chat session like a cumulative study buddy. Meta…
Meta AI is free, it’s fast, and it’s already sitting inside apps you use every day. Most people treat it like a novelty. That’s a waste. Used right, it’s a sharp drafting partner. It’ll tailor your resume bullets to a job description, run mock interviews, and rewrite a clunky cover letter in seconds. If you…
DeepSeek is one of the best free drafting engines you can point at your resume right now. It sharpens weak bullets, reframes your experience for a specific job, and spits out stronger action verbs in seconds. If you’ve been staring at the same tired resume for a week, it breaks the logjam fast. Here’s what…
DeepSeek is free, fast, and surprisingly good at the exact thing LinkedIn demands: taking messy career details and reshaping them into tight, structured, keyword-aware copy. You can paste your whole resume or upload a PDF, flip on web search to study a target job, and iterate in seconds. Here’s the catch. DeepSeek loves to over-polish….
DeepSeek is free, and it’s genuinely good at one thing that matters for cover letters: structure. It methodically links your experience to a job’s stated requirements and doesn’t pad. If you’ve ever stared at a blank page wondering how to connect your background to a posting, that’s the exact gap it fills. Here’s what most…
Most people use AI to write interview answers for them. That’s exactly the wrong move, and it’s why so many candidates sound rehearsed and hollow in the room. DeepSeek is different in one useful way: it’s built for structured reasoning. That means its real value isn’t writing your answers, it’s pressure-testing them, finding the logic…
DeepSeek is free, it’s genuinely capable, and most job seekers are sleeping on it. It drafts, it iterates, and its reasoning modes are weirdly good at telling you why your resume bullet is weak before a recruiter ever sees it. Here’s the catch. DeepSeek’s first draft always sounds the same: smooth, competent, and completely forgettable….
