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.
Copilot is genuinely good at cover letters. It drafts a coherent, professional letter in seconds, adjusts length and tone on command, and rewrites one paragraph without touching the rest. Here’s the catch. Left alone, it writes the exact same letter as everyone else. Fluent, polished, and forgettable. It mirrors the job description instead of connecting…
What working at Accenture is really like across 178,000+ reviews: the 3.7/5 rating decoded, staffing and chargeability explained for outsiders, the post-pandemic travel reality, and the profile of people who thrive.
Here’s a number that should change how you scroll: 26% of job seekers decline offers because of poor communication or unclear expectations during the hiring process, according to the CareerPlug 2024 Candidate Experience Report. Read that again. One in four people walked away from a paycheck because they couldn’t figure out what the job actually…
Claude is one of the best AI tools you can point at a resume, and it’s not close. It tightens flabby language, rewrites weak bullets to lead with results, and adjusts your tone for a specific role without turning you into a robot. But most people use it wrong. They paste in a rough draft,…
Copilot is at its best doing the boring, repetitive resume work you’d otherwise do by hand for every single application. Tailoring language to a job description, tightening clunky sentences, surfacing the keywords a screener wants: that’s exactly the kind of grunt work it handles fast. Here’s what most people get wrong. They paste in a…
Accenture pay in 2026, level by level: analyst ~$91k to senior manager ~$264k medians, the CL13-to-CL1 system decoded, and the $91k-to-$187k median posted bands we found analyzing 107 real Accenture listings.
The box at the top of your resume gets read first, and it decides whether the rest gets read at all. A hiring manager skims it in seconds, so a weak opener can sink you before your experience ever gets a look. Most bartenders waste that space. They write “hardworking team player with a passion…
Most people use AI for interview prep the lazy way. They ask for model answers, copy them down, and walk into the room sounding like a robot reciting a script. Gemini is built for something better. It can run a real back-and-forth interview, quiz you in Learning Mode, and let you rehearse out loud through…
What working at CVS is really like on both sides of the counter: the staffing issue behind the low-threes rating, the store-scouting checklist, front store at 16 vs pharmacy at 18, and the full hiring process including HireVue.
Companies spent the last few years telling you that the degree no longer matters. Then researchers checked the receipts. Fewer than 1 in 700 new hires actually benefited from companies dropping degree requirements, roughly 97,000 workers out of 77 million yearly hires in 2023, according to HR Dive’s reporting on the Harvard Business School and…
