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.
For years, the conversation about automation has followed the same script. Knowledge workers worry about AI. Writers, coders, lawyers, and analysts keep a nervous eye on the latest language model releases. Meanwhile, the assumption has been that physical, hands-on work is harder to automate and therefore safer. That assumption is only partially right, and the…
The college degree has been losing its grip on the hiring market for years. But in 2026, the shift is impossible to ignore. Major employers have quietly stripped degree requirements from job postings across industries — and that trend is even more pronounced in remote work, where what you can demonstrate on a screen matters…
Freelance digital marketing is one of the few career paths where you can go from zero to paying clients in under 90 days, without a degree, without years of corporate experience, and without a big upfront investment. The demand is real. Upwork’s September 2025 hiring data showed: That’s not a niche trend. That’s a structural…
Banking has always been seen as a strictly in-person industry. Suits, branch offices, and handshakes. That picture has changed dramatically. Today, banks and financial institutions are filling hundreds of fully remote roles in everything from loan processing to compliance to financial advising. If you have a background in finance or the right transferable skills, working…
If bedside nursing is wearing you down, you’re not alone. The physical toll, the unpredictable shifts, the emotional weight of constant direct care — it adds up fast. The good news is that your LPN license can take you somewhere completely different in 2026: a home office. Remote LPN jobs are no longer rare. Telehealth…
The gig economy in 2026 is bigger than ever, with over 70 million Americans now doing some form of independent work. But here’s the problem: most “best gig apps” articles just list the same five platforms everyone already knows and call it a day. They never tell you what the money actually looks like after…
If you’ve been watching the remote job market, you already know that executive assistant roles are quietly becoming one of the best opportunities out there. The pay is strong, the work is substantive, and the demand isn’t going anywhere. In fact, the AI boom has made this role more valuable, not less. Executives now have…
Remote recruiter jobs have quietly become one of the most consistent work-from-home opportunities in 2026. While plenty of roles have cycled in and out of remote-friendly status, recruiting has stayed remote largely because the work was already phone and video based long before anyone had to think about it. The AI hiring boom has added…
Let’s be honest about what’s happening. A Bloomberry study of over five million job listings found that freelance writing postings fell 33% since ChatGPT’s release. A separate report found that more than half the businesses that spent on freelance platforms in 2022 had stopped entirely by 2025. AI model spending at those same companies rose…
While every headline fixates on which white-collar jobs AI is coming for next, something quietly extraordinary is happening in the labor market. The AI infrastructure boom is creating one of the strongest job markets in a generation for people who work with their hands. Not as a fallback. Not as plan B. As a genuinely…
