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.
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…
Why $500 a Month Is the Perfect Starting Goal Five hundred dollars a month. That is one car payment. Half a rent payment. Four months of groceries. A credit card minimum payment and a streaming service and a tank of gas. It is not “quit your job” money. But it is “stop feeling financially trapped”…
You’ve been using AI to work faster, produce better output, and solve problems your competitors haven’t figured out yet. The question is: does your resume actually show that? Most candidates have swung hard in one direction. They’ve loaded up their skills section with tool names — ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, Copilot — and called it a…
There’s a narrative that has been circulating in every corporate memo, every hiring conversation, and every LinkedIn post for the past two years: AI will make you more productive. Learn the tools, adopt the workflows, and you’ll get twice as much done in half the time. A wave of new research published in early 2026…
Debt is heavy. And the frustrating thing is that cutting expenses alone rarely moves the needle fast enough. You can cancel subscriptions, skip coffee, and meal prep every Sunday, and your credit card balance still barely budges. That’s because the math of debt repayment is ruthless. At a 20% interest rate, roughly a third of…
Most job seekers spend hours prepping interview answers but zero time researching what they should actually get paid. Then when the question comes up — “What are your salary expectations?” — they either panic and low-ball themselves, or they pull a number out of thin air and hope it lands. That’s a losing strategy on…
